Nearly 2,270 people, including 700 Palestinian children, have been killed as the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza rages on.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in a statement on Saturday that 2,269 Palestinians have been killed and another 9,814 injured ever since the Israeli strikes began on October 7. Over 700 children are among the fatalities.
This comes as more than 420,000 people are displaced within the Gaza Strip. A total of 270,374 out of 423,378 internally displaced people are located in UN shelters and schools.
At least 15 hospitals have also been damaged by Israeli shelling and air raids.
Israeli strike at school in Jabalia kills 27 Palestinians
Meanwhile, renewed Israeli airstrikes near a school on Saturday afternoon have killed more than 20 Palestinians.
According the media office of the Gaza-based Interior Ministry, The attack targeted areas adjacent to al-Fakhura School in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, leaving at least 27 civilians, including children, dead.
The Israeli air raids also resulted in the injury of more than 80 people.
Haniyeh: Zionist project supported by US will fail
Additionally, the head of the political bureau of Hamas resistance movement says the atrocious Israeli military campaign against Gaza, supported by the United States, will eventually fail.
Ismail Haniyeh made the remarks in a televised speech on Saturday, saying all Palestinian factions support the resistance front in the face of the occupying Israeli regime. He also denounced the mass displacement of Gazans as a result of the Israeli strikes.
“The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance fighters, unlike the Zionist enemy’s troops, do not target civilians, children or elderly people,” Haniyeh said.
“Resistance will not give up the fight for the rights of the Palestinian nation despite pressure from the West to renounce the struggle,” the senior Hamas official said.
Haniyeh also called upon popular movements worldwide to continue their support for Palestinians.
Gaza hospitals given final warning to be evacuated or bombed
Furthermore, a Palestinian doctor said the Israeli military has given them a final notice to leave hospitals in northern Gaza before they start bombing them.
Sohaib al-Hems said staff of al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and the General Services Hospital in Gaza City are refusing to leave.
“We will die in the hospitals. More than 27 ambulances have been targeted just now, and dozens of medical staff and patients have been killed,” Hems said. “Do not stay silent over what’s happening in Gaza. We will not forgive you.”
UN: Water runs out in Gaza
The United Nations also said more than two million people are risk in Gaza as water runs out.
It has become a matter of “life and death,” Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, said.
According the UNRWA, no humanitarian supplies have been allowed into Gaza since last Saturday.
“Fuel needs to be delivered now into Gaza to make water available for 2 million people,” Lazzarini said.
“If not, people will start dying of severe dehydration, among them young children, the elderly and women. Water is now the last remaining lifeline. I appeal for the siege on humanitarian assistance to be lifted now,” he added.
Clean and drinking water is running out, forcing people to use dirty water from wells and increasing risks of waterborne diseases, the UNRWA noted.
Water supply has also been impacted by the total electricity blackout imposed by Israel since October 11.
