On Wednesday morning, the Israeli army carried out demolition operations on residential buildings east of Gaza City, coinciding with artillery shelling that targeted the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, according to eyewitnesses.
Witnesses explained that the occupation forces blew up several buildings within the areas under their control in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, one of the largest and most damaged neighborhoods in Gaza during the two-year Israeli genocide.
In Khan Younis, Israeli artillery targeted the eastern areas under its military control, without any official Palestinian comment.
Since the ceasefire agreement came into effect on October 11, health authorities have documented the deaths of approximately 360 Palestinians as a result of Israeli gunfire and shelling.
6,000 amputations in two years, a quarter of them children
In addition, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that it had recorded 6,000 cases of limb amputations during the two years of the Israeli war of extermination on the sector, noting that the injured need urgent and long-term rehabilitation programs.
The ministry added in a statement on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities that 25% of amputations are children, and that the lack of medical resources increases the suffering of the wounded.
International organizations have called for strengthening rehabilitation and psychosocial support services for amputees.
In this context, Doctors Without Borders called on countries to open their doors to tens of thousands of patients in Gaza who need urgent medical evacuation, warning that hundreds could die while waiting to receive treatment.
Hani Islim, the organization's medical evacuation coordinator, said that the numbers received by countries so far "are just a drop in the ocean," noting that the actual number of people in need is three or four times greater than those registered.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 8,000 patients have been evacuated since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, while more than 16,500 are still waiting for treatment outside the sector, including children suffering from serious illnesses.
Islim pointed out that the closure of the Rafah crossing in May 2024 led to a decrease in the pace of evacuation from 1,500 patients per month to only about 70, stressing that the long and politicized process of accepting patients exacerbates their suffering.
Islim called on governments to treat medical evacuations as a matter of saving lives, not a "shopping list," stressing that the slow pace of evacuations threatens the lives of thousands of patients.
On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel went into effect, according to the plan of US President Donald Trump.
The agreement ended the war of extermination waged by Israel with American support in Gaza, which resulted in the killing of more than 70,000 Palestinian martyrs and about 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, and caused destruction to 90% of the civilian infrastructure.
