Israel on Monday rejected a report by a UN commission of inquiry, calling its accusations "political propaganda". The report accuses Israel of crimes against humanity against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including extermination, and of continuing to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip. According to Al Jazeera, the commission said civilians were targeted through systematic operations and ongoing settler violence.
Israel has authorized a US company working on behalf of the "Board of Peace" to enter the Gaza Strip in the coming days, Israel's public broadcaster reported on Sunday. The firm will survey the ground and map sites where Hamas could hand over its weapons ahead of their destruction. The reports describe the step as a pilot project and do not include any response from Hamas.
One Palestinian was killed and another wounded on Friday in an Israeli strike on a police checkpoint in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Sky News Arabia. Two other Palestinians, including an elderly woman and a girl, were wounded by fire from Israeli military vehicles northeast of the city. Separately, medical sources told Al Jazeera that four Palestinians were killed early Saturday in a strike on a residential apartment in western Gaza City.
An Israeli airstrike hit a small passenger bus in the Tal al-Hawa district of Gaza City on Wednesday, killing 6 Palestinians and wounding 20, including children and women, according to a medical source and the civil defense. Separately, RT Arabic, citing hospital sources, reported 8 deaths, including a journalist, across strikes and shelling in Gaza City and Khan Younis. The difference in tolls appears to reflect the wider set of incidents covered.
حذرت جهات صحية من تصاعد أزمة القطاع الطبي في قطاع غزة نتيجة نقص حاد في الوقود، ما يهدد باستمرار عمل المستشفيات والمراكز الصحية. وتزداد المخاوف مع اقتراب توقف خدمات نقل الطواقم الطبية، الأمر الذي قد يقلص بشكل كبير القدرة على تقديم الرعاية للمرضى والجرحى.
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