Tuesday’s explosion at the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza caused ” destruction of an entire block with 30 residential buildings” and at least 50 deathsThis was stated today in a UN report on the conflict, which also reported other attacks on residential areas.
Along with the Jabaliya attack, which other Gaza hospital sources said caused at least 145 deaths, The UN said two attacks on family homes in the central strip and in the capital were particularly deadly in the past 24 hours. They caused 18 and 15 deaths, respectively..
This is the central zone, an area where the UN says bombing has been particularly intense over the past 48 hours. “killed three generations of one family” noted the daily report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The UN notes, citing data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, that two thirds of the victims of the conflict died as a result of attacks on their own homes, and that nearly 2,000 people are still buried under the rubble, of whom it is feared that more than a thousand are children.
The total number of deaths since October 7 in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources, Their number increased to 8,525, of whom 3,542 were children and 2,187 women.
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Total 67 UN staff (particularly from the Palestinian refugee relief agency, UNRWA) died in 25 days of conflict, the highest number of casualties the UN has suffered in such a short period of time, the report highlights.
Here we also present for the first time data from Committee to Protect Journalists according to which they died in a wave of hostilities 31 reporters: 26 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese.
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The report recalls that attacks on the Gaza Strip have caused some two-thirds the inhabitants of this densely populated strip are 1.4 million, are internally displaced persons.
The UN emphasizes that this is being done it is especially difficult to provide assistance to the 300,000 displaced people who are located in shelters and hospitals in the north of the territory, where much of the Israeli attacks are concentrated.
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Some 690,000 displaced people remain in UNRWA shelters. are overcrowded with four times more people than their capacity allows, the UN says, pointing out that even one of these facilities in Khan Younis (southern Gaza) is operating at ten times its capacity as it houses 22,000 people.
“People are becoming more and more desperate. in search of food, food and shelter amid relentless bombing that has destroyed entire families and neighborhoods,” Martin Griffiths, head of UN humanitarian coordination, said on Tuesday.
The United Nations again condemned in its daily report attacks on Gaza’s health system, for example, the one that destroyed a government clinic in the last 24 hours, and two others that damaged two hospitals.
One of the affected hospital centers, which was attacked for the second day in a row, was Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, in Gaza City, dedicated to the treatment of cancer patients, condemned the report.