Eight aid seekers killed near Rafah
The number of Palestinians killed at aid sites run by the US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Fundation has surpassed 770. The initative's sole food distribution point in central Gaza has now shut.
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Israeli missile hits Gaza children collecting water, IDF blames malfunction
At least eight Palestinians, most of them children, were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded in central Gaza on Sunday, local officials said, in an Israeli missile strike which the military said missed its intended target. The Israeli military said it had intended to hit a militant in the area but that a malfunction had caused the missile to fall "dozens of metres from the target". "The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians," it said in a statement, adding that the incident was under review. The strike hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing six children and injuring 17 others, said Ahmed Abu Saifan, an emergency physician at Al-Awda Hospital. Water shortages in Gaza have worsened sharply in recent weeks, with fuel shortages causing desalination and sanitation facilities to close, making people dependent on collection centres where they can fill up their plastic containers. In another attack, Palestinian media reported that a prominent hospital consultant was among 12 people killed by an Israeli strike mid-morning on a busy market in Gaza City. Gaza's health ministry said on Sunday that more than 58,000 people had been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, with 139 people added to the death toll over the past 24 hours. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in its tally, but says over half of those killed are women and children. TALKS BLOCKED Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire appeared to be deadlocked, with the two sides divided over the extent of an eventual Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said at the weekend. The indirect talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire were continuing in Doha, but optimism that surfaced last week of a possible deal has largely faded, with both sides accusing each other of intransigence. The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led fighters stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza. At least 20 of the remaining 50 hostages there are believed to still be alive. Israel's campaign against Hamas has displaced almost the entire population of more than 2 million people, but Gazans say nowhere is safe in the coastal enclave. Early on Sunday, a missile hit a house in Gaza City where a family had moved to after receiving an evacuation order from their home in the southern outskirts.
Middle East Eye
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- Middle East Eye
Israeli strike kills 11 in Gaza City, including doctor on way to hospital
An Israeli airstrike on Sunday hit a group of civilians walking through central Gaza City, killing 11 people and injuring around 50 others, according to Gaza's Civil Defence. Among the dead was Dr. Ahmed Qandil, a specialist in general and laparoscopic surgery, who was en route to Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital when the strike happened. All casualties were taken to Al-Ahli Hospital. The strike hit the Samer and Ma'hol intersection, the civil defence said. In a separate incident, Civil Defence said that one of its officers, Lt. Ahmad Ismail al-Bureim, was killed in Israeli attacks targeting displaced people in the Abasan area of Khan Younis. His death brings the number of Civil Defence personnel killed since the start of the war to 131. Israeli strikes have killed over 40 Palestinians so far on Sunday.
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- Middle East Eye
Israeli forces target civilians, killing two and wounding 15
Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported receiving two fatalities and 15 injuries after Israeli forces targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Btiḥan station in Al-Zawaida, central Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says in a post on X that a 7-month-old girl, Salam, suffering from serious acute malnutrition, had died today while being treated by its teams. Salam is one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza, with more cases detected every day, UNRWA added.
