THE Israeli military has fired artillery shells at the headquarters of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the organisation says.
The PRCS wrote on X that the shelling coincided with “intense gunfire from Israeli drones, resulting in injuries among internally displaced individuals who sought safety on our premises”.
Khan Younis has come under a sustained assault in recent days, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties, with the Israeli military saying it’s attempting to root out Hamas fighters in the city.
Meanwhile, Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said that all children under the age of five in Gaza are not getting enough nutrition and are at risk of permanent physical and cognitive impairment.
“We’ve never seen 2.2 million civilians made to go hungry within weeks. We have never seen this degree of hunger used as a weapon so quickly and so completely, ever,” Fakhri told Al Jazeera.
“It doesn’t happen by chance. Starvation, wherever it happens, is always the result of political choices and this is the same case here,” Fakhri said.
“There was a 16-year blockade before this. So even before the war, half of the people in Gaza were food insecure and 80 percent depended on aid,” he said.
“Then [Israel] imposes a siege during the war. Then it destroys civilian infrastructure. So Israel has destroyed hospitals, homes, roads, making everyday life impossible. And finally, what I’m receiving reports of is the destruction of the food system itself,” he added.
