DaysofPal- Israel launched airstrikes against southern Gaza overnight, killing at least 19 Palestinians, including eight children, according to local health officials.
Among the victims were a mother and her four children who lost their lives when a tent camp for displaced people in al-Mawasi was struck. In the nearby city of Khan Younis, another family, a couple and their children, were also killed.
The health ministry reported that 51 people had been killed in the last 24 hours as a result of the strikes that spread throughout Gaza. In northern Gaza, at least six bodies, including that of a baby, were retrieved from two bombed houses in Gaza City.
Meanwhile, in central Gaza, three people were killed in Deir al-Balah, and an infant lost their life in a strike on the urban Bureij refugee camp, according to medics.
A desperate request for fuel to run hospital generators in the south was made by Gaza’s health ministry as the humanitarian crisis worsened. Officials have warned that the Nasser Hospital and European Hospital in southern Khan Younis, as well as the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir el-Balah, are at imminent risk of shutting down due to the lack of electricity.
Fuel donated by UN agencies is providing a temporary reprieve but is only sufficient to keep Al-Aqsa Hospital operational for another 24 hours. “Fuel is the lifeline of hospitals,” the ministry stressed, adding that the lives of hundreds of patients, including those in intensive care and on dialysis machines, hang in the balance as supplies run critically low.
A UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire has not stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which has killed at least 46,006 Palestinians and injured 109,378 since October 7, 2023.
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