At least 19 people have been killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza humanitarian zone
Israeli strikes strike in a Gaza humanitarian zone: Dozens killed from an Israeli strike on a Palestinian enclave, Palestinians say
The vaccination drive, launched after doctors discovered the first polio case in the Palestinian enclave in 25 years, aims to vaccinate 640,000 children during a war that has destroyed the health care system.
He said the staff and the convoy later returned to a U.N. base, but it was unclear if a polio vaccination campaign would take place Tuesday in northern Gaza.
He stated that the convoy had been stopped at a gun point with threats to detain UN staff. bulldozers caused heavy damage to the UN armored vehicles.
The main United Nations agency providing aid to Palestinians said Israeli troops stopped a convoy taking part in a polio vaccination campaign for more than eight hours on Monday, despite it coordinating with the military. The staffers were in northern Gaza and Gaza City taking part in the campaign when they were held.
The war has plunged Gaza into a humanitarian crisis, and humanitarian groups have struggled to provide aid because of ongoing fighting, Israeli restrictions, and the breakdown of law and order. The international authority on the severity of hunger crises said in June that the territory is at high risk of famine.
The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent much of this year trying to broker an agreement for a cease-fire and the release of the hostages, but the talks have repeatedly bogged down as Israel and Hamas have accused each other of making new and unacceptable demands.
The Israeli-Israeli strike on a tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the October 7 attack in Muwasi (Iraq Strip)
Over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, says the Health Ministry. It does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in its count.
Aid groups have struggled to provide even basic services in Muwasi, and Israel has occasionally struck targets there despite designating it as a humanitarian zone.
It was among the deadliest strikes yet in Muwasi, a sprawl of crowded tent camps along the Gaza coast that Israel designated as a humanitarian zone for hundreds of thousands of civilians to seek shelter from the Israel-Hamas war.
Hamas’ attack on October 7 started the war and Israel is trying to avoid harming civilians. It blames Hamas for their deaths because the militants often operate in residential areas and are known to position tunnels, rocket launchers and other infrastructure near homes, schools and mosques.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Hamas denied Israel’s allegations of targeting the militant group.
An Associated Press camera operator saw several large craters at the scene, where first responders and people displaced by the incident were sifting through sand and rubble with gardening tools and their bare hands. They pulled body parts from the sand, including what appeared to be a human leg.
The Civil Defense, first responders operating under the Hamas-run government, said it recovered 40 bodies from the strike and was still looking for people. It claimed that all families were killed in their tents.
After making sure her children were safe, she looked around to find her husband, Ahmad. He was still alive despite being stuck under the rubble. Sha’er said she used her bare hands to dig him out.
Maha al-Sha’er said that nobody is safe in Gaza. She said her family went to bed at 11 pm and woke up with loud booms. Sha’er said she was disoriented from the dust and explosions.
This isn’t the first time Muwasi has been struck. In July, 90 Palestinians were killed in a strike that the Israeli military said targeted and killed top Hamas commander Mohammed Deif. The Hamas organization denied that Deif was dead.
Muwasi was a chaotic scene after the strikes. There was dust and rubble on the tents. There were personal items strewn across the camp, like a deflated basketball and kitchen supplies. Parents looked for their children among the rubble, and a massive crater was left by an explosion in the middle of the camp.
First responders told NPR it took them hours to pull dead bodies from beneath the rubble, and the Health Ministry said dozens were still trapped, which would affect the casualty toll.
Israeli airstrike killed 19 Palestinians and injured 60 others in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the ministry of health in Telaviv, Israel
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip, and TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli airstrike early Tuesday morning on an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza killed 19 Palestinians and wounded 60 others, according to Gaza’s ministry of health.
An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and injured 60 others on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. The Civil Defense said it recovered 40 bodies from the strike. In July, 90 Palestinians were killed in a strike that Israeli military said targeted and killed top Hamas commander Mohammed Deif.