Israeli shelling killed 75 people in two separate attacks in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to a civil service spokesperson, who said most of the victims were women and children from the Ahmed and Al Baba. The Ministry of Health has not confirmed the information.
In the center of the strip, 40 Palestinians were killed Thursday in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Palestinian enclave, according to medical sources.
Doctors also said they found 19 bodies in the northern areas of Nusseirat, one of Gaza’s eight refugee camps.
Israeli tanks withdrew from the northern areas of Nousseirat, but remained active until Friday during the day in the western parts of the camp.
Palestinian emergency services said their teams were unable to respond to calls for help from residents trapped in their homes.
The Gaza Health Ministry on Friday announced a new death toll of 44,363 since the start of the war with Israel more than a year ago, adding that 105,070 people had been injured.
On the diplomatic front, Hamas leaders will travel to Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday to meet Egyptian leaders, two members of the Palestinian movement announced.
No details were given on this meeting, however the United States recently declared that it would organize new discussions around a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, which has just been added to the mediators.
Three dead in a stampede to buy bread
Two women and a minor died on Friday, trampled during a stampede in front of a bakery in Deir Al-Balah, where a crowd had gathered to buy bread, said witnesses and a medical source in this town in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Two women and a young girl died outside a bakery in Deir Al-Balah following a stampede while trying to buy bread
Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah said in a statement.
The crowd was dense
et suddenly we heard screams. They fell to the ground
and they were suffocated
told a witness to theAFP.
The UN alerted the population the day before about the closure of all bakeries in central Gaza
because of severe supply shortages
even though they are a lifeline
et one of the few remaining food sources
.
Gaza has descended into anarchy, says UN
The Gaza Strip has descended into anarchy, with rising famine, widespread looting and increasing rapes in refugee camps as law and order collapsed, officials said Friday. of the United Nations.
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Children wait to receive food in southern Khan Younes.
Photo : (Mohamed El Saife/CBC)
The extent of the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza must be seen to be truly understood
said Ajith Sunghay, head of the human rights office of theHIM in the Palestinian territories, after his last visit to Gaza.
I was particularly alarmed by the level of hunger
declared Mr. Sunghay during a press briefing in Geneva, by videoconference from Amman.
The breakdown of law and order and security is exacerbating the situation, with widespread looting and struggles over scarce resources.
he testified.
The lawlessness in Gaza, about which we sounded the alarm months ago, is here
he said, emphasizing that the predictable situation could have been avoided.
Mr Sunghay said young women, many of whom have been displaced repeatedly, have reported a lack of safe spaces and privacy in their makeshift tents.
Some say cases of gender-based violence and rape, child abuse and other forms of violence in refugee camps have increased, due to war and the breakdown of law and order.
he added.
Horrible
Mr. Sunghay described the situation in Gaza City as horrible
with thousands of displaced people taking refuge in inhumane conditions, with severe food shortages and terrible sanitary conditions
.
He said he saw, for the first time, dozens of Gazan women and children rummaging through waste from giant landfills.
He said that the help thatHIM to provide to the 70,000 people still living in northern Gaza was hampered, due torepeated obstacles or rejections of humanitarian convoys by the Israeli authorities
.
Israeli bus shot at in West Bank, at least 8 injured
At least eight people were injured on Friday following shooting at an Israeli bus traveling near the Ariel settlement in the northern occupied West Bank, said Magen David Adom (MDA), the Israeli equivalent of the Cross -Red.
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The bus riddled with bullets after the attack in the Ariel settlement, near Nablus.
Photo : afp via getty images / AHMAD GHARABLI
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack, citing a ambush against soldiers and settlers on a bus
.
The al-Qassam Brigades said one of its fighters died in martyr
.
During the attack, four people were injured by bullets, three of them seriously, and four others lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the MDA.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, at least 24 Israelis, civilians or members of the security forces, have since died in attacks by Palestinian activists or during Israeli military operations in the West Bank, according to Israeli officials .
At least 778 Palestinians were killed there during the same period by fire from Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
With information from Al Jazeera, Agence France-Presse and Reuters
