UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says Israel is not allowing anything to enter Gaza, including humanitarian aid and fuel, and calls for the restoration of electricity to the territory.
Also, Israeli negotiators are due in Doha today as mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the US try to revive the Gaza ceasefire.
As Hamas condemns Israel’s cut-off of electricity to a key desalination plant that provides drinking water to residents in central and southern Gaza, accusing the Israeli government of “cheap and unacceptable blackmail”.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed 48,467 Palestinian deaths in Israel’s war on Gaza with 111,913 people wounded. Gaza’s Government Media Office has updated its death toll to at least 61,709, saying thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
Meanwhile, a medical source has told our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues that three Palestinians have been wounded when Israeli soldiers shot at them in the city of Dura, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The Wafa news agency also reported the violence, saying Israeli forces stormed Dura, fired live bullets, and used stun grenades and “toxic gas”. It added that the Palestinian Health Ministry described the wounded Palestinians’ conditions as “stable”.
The agency said dozens of Palestinians were affected by the gas used by the Israeli army and were treated at the scene.
Earlier, Wafa, citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society, reported that two other Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army fire in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron.
