Earlier today, sources reported that 42 Palestinians, including children and a doctor, were killed, including 10 people waiting for water, while others were injured in sporadic Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn.
For its part, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the total number of victims of the Israeli aggression on the Strip since its resumption on March 18 has risen to 7,450 martyrs and 26,479 wounded. It noted that the death toll among those awaiting aid since May 27 has risen to 833 martyrs and 5,432 wounded.
In Gaza City, the occupation's shelling of a civilian gathering in the city resulted in the deaths of 11 Palestinians, including a child and a doctor, and the injury of more than 50 others.
In the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, six Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a house. Two Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting an apartment building in the Sabra neighborhood, south of the city.
In the central and southern Gaza Strip, nine Palestinians from the Al-Arbid family were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting their home in the Al-Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
In the same camp, the death toll from the bombing of a water filling station rose to 10 Palestinians, including 6 children, and 16 others were injured as they lined up to collect water.
In Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area west of the city. A Palestinian girl was also killed and five others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced people in Khan Yunis.
Municipal services suspended
In the same context, municipalities in central and southern Gaza announced the suspension of essential services due to a complete interruption in fuel supplies needed to operate water wells, sewage treatment plants, and waste collection vehicles, amid the ongoing Israeli blockade and the war of extermination waged by Tel Aviv against the Strip.
This came in a joint statement issued by the municipalities of the Middle Governorate and the Solid Waste Management Council of the local authorities in the governorates of Rafah, Khan Yunis, and the Middle Governorate.
The statement noted that the municipalities of the Central Governorate, in coordination with the Southern Governorates Solid Waste Management Council, announced a complete halt to all essential services, citing the "complete interruption of fuel needed to operate water wells, sewage treatment plants, waste collection and transport vehicles, and heavy equipment for removing rubble and clearing roads."
For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that the fuel shortage in Gaza is placing "an unbearable new burden on Palestinians teetering on the brink of starvation," and threatens a complete halt to UN relief operations amid the ongoing Israeli blockade of the Strip.
UNRWA also warned in a statement of a rise in malnutrition cases in Gaza since March, following Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid. The agency confirmed that malnutrition cases have increased in UNRWA clinics in Gaza since the Israeli government tightened the blockade.
Gaza's health system is suffering from a complete collapse due to Israel's deliberate targeting of the remaining functioning hospitals and health centers in the Strip, and the denial of entry of medicines, medical supplies, and equipment.
