Israeli forces continued their assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, which is home to 2.2 million Palestinians, half of whom are children under age 18.
In the pre-dawn hours on Wednesday, two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in Israeli warplanes’ shelling of the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that a Palestinian was killed in the occupation’s artillery shelling of Jabalia Al-Nazla, north of Gaza City.
The same sources added that another Palestinian was killed in the bombing of the Khirbet Al-Adas area, north of Rafah, by the Israeli occupation forces.
Shrapnel injuries were recorded as a result of an Israeli occupation drone throwing a bomb at citizens near the entrance to Nuseirat.
The Israeli occupation’s artillery shelling continues on the Al-Sabra and Tal Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City.
According to a new report by Euronews, quoting a top UN health official, Palestinian women and girls are at high risk of pregnancy complications and violence as Israel’s air and ground assault continues to squeeze health services in Gaza. An estimated 50,000 women in Gaza are pregnant, and about 130 give birth every day.
Many of Gaza’s health facilities have been destroyed by Israel since October 2023.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 19 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals cannot be used and 17 are partially functional, though many lack medical supplies and are ill-equipped to care for patients.
“Even what we are calling ‘functioning’ is barely functioning,” said Penninah Kyoyagala, head of the Gaza office for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN’s sexual health and reproductive rights agency.
The aggression on the Gaza Strip enters its 411th day, leaving 43,972 killed, the majority of whom are women and children, and injuring 104,008 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.
