At least 100 people were killed and 158 injured in central Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to a health official. Besides, at least 14 people have been detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in overnight raids, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement.
In Gaza, at least 21,507 people have been killed and 55,915 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7. The death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the war in Gaza “is generating destruction comparable in scale to the most devastating warfare in the modern record”.
In a report published on Saturday, it confirmed that by mid-December Israel had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions and shells on the besieged enclave, destroying or damaging nearly 70 percent of Gaza’s homes.
A health official has told Al Jazeera that about 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army bombings in the central region of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, while 158 others have been injured.
The spread of diseases in Gaza has reportedly increased, especially due to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern part of the enclave, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report.
About 180,000 people have been diagnosed with upper respiratory infections, with more than 136,000 cases of diarrhoea recorded among the population, OCHA noted. At least 55,400 cases of lice and scabies and 5,330 cases of chickenpox have also been recorded.
Moreover, the OCHA said that only 13 out of 36 of Gaza’s hospitals were partially functional, nine of them in the south. “The four hospitals that are partially functional in the north have been offering maternity, trauma, and emergency care services,” it said, adding that those facilities continue to face shortages of medical staff, surgeons and intensive care staff.
List of key events, day 85 of the Israel-Gaza war
It’s day 85 of Israel’s war in Gaza. Here’s how things stand:
Israel’s bombardment of southern Gaza has intensified, with the Israeli army, navy and air force targeting multiple locations in Khan Younis and Rafah. Israel has hit residential areas and civilian infrastructure, resulting in a large number of deaths. According to the United Nations, between Thursday and Friday afternoon, 187 Palestinians were killed and 312 wounded in these attacks.
South Africa has initiated proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), saying its operations in Gaza amount to “genocide”- a move that has been welcomed by the Palestinian foreign ministry.
In Gaza, at least 21,507 people have been killed and 55,915 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7. The revised death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
More than dozen arrested in occupied West Bank
At least 14 people have been detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in overnight raids, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement.
The raids took place across the occupied West Bank, including Nablus and Ramallah, the prisoner rights group said.
The total number of arrests made by Israeli forces since October 7 stands at 4,860, the statement added.
Wafa news agency reported earlier that Israeli forces had arrested 15 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since dawn.
Israeli forces have arrested 15 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since dawn, Wafa news agency has reported.
Israeli forces arrested two people south of Hebron, beat them and seized their vehicles, the report said. They also arrested a young man east of Nablus and assaulted another south of Nablus. Two young men from Beit Iba, west of Nablus were among the detained after Israeli forces arrested 10 Palestinians during a raid on Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah. Red Crescent educates children on how to maintain hygiene despite water scarcity The Palestine Red Crescent Society has shared a video on X showing the team conducting awareness activities with the displaced children in Khan Younis due to the spread of disease and epidemics. The team has been teaching the children how to maintain hygiene despite the water scarcity.