THREE Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City, following a day of bombardment that killed at least 35 people across Gaza, the Palestinian Civil Defence says.
UN rights experts warn that Israel will become a “pariah” over its “genocide” in Gaza, in a joint news conference in Geneva.
At least one Palestinian has been killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing of a home in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent reports.
Two other homes were also attacked, AJA reported, citing Palestinian media, with Israeli forces preventing ambulance crews from reaching the area to rescue survivors.
People in Gaza are only eating an average of one meal per day as the Israeli army is blocking 83 percent of the food aid needed from reaching the besieged enclave, a group of 15 aid organisations have said in a joint statement.
The amount of aid being blocked by Israel has increased substantially from 2023, when just 34 percent of food aid was being blocked, the organisations added in the statement.
Amjad Al Shawa, the director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said in the statement that 100 percent of Gaza’s population is now dependent on aid and the shortages mean people are starving.
“We are overwhelmed [with] these needs and [these] urgent requirements”, Al Shawa said.
The aid organisations that released the statement included Save the Children, ActionAid, Christian Aid and Islamic Relief.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will “discuss ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza” during a three-day visit to Egypt, as Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor on the Egypt-Gaza border remains a sticking point in talks.
At least 41,226 people have been killed and 95,413 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 was at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
