A Palestinian was injured on Wednesday by shrapnel from a bomb fired by an Israeli drone targeting a gathering of civilians near the Bani Suheila roundabout, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that “the young man Jihad Mallahi Mahmoud Abu Shab (37 years old) arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, after being injured by shrapnel from a bomb fired by a quadcopter at the Bani Suheila roundabout east of Khan Younis,” in a new violation of the ceasefire agreement in effect since October 10.
Medical sources described his injury as moderate, noting that the attack occurred in an area from which the Israeli occupation army withdrew during the first phase of the agreement.
In a related context, the occupation army carried out demolition operations on buildings and facilities in the areas of its deployment in the northern Gaza Strip, especially in the town of Beit Lahia, in addition to similar operations in the Shuja'iyya and Zeitoun neighborhoods east of Gaza City, while a child was moderately wounded as a result of gunfire from Israeli vehicles east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
These attacks are part of a series of Israeli violations of the agreement, with the Government Media Office recording 738 violations that have killed 386 Palestinians since the ceasefire came into effect.
The war of extermination waged by Israel since October 7, 2023, has left more than 70,000 martyrs and 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to widespread destruction estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
Thousands of tents flooded
Displaced people in the Gaza Strip faced a new humanitarian disaster after heavy rains flooded thousands of their tents as a result of a polar low-pressure system affecting Gaza until Friday evening.
The water level inside some tents reached about 40 cm, damaging the only shelter for hundreds of thousands of families and causing them to lose their belongings.
On Wednesday, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal warned in a video statement of an "imminent humanitarian catastrophe" as a result of the storm's effects, saying, "We will witness drownings and see the disaster with our own eyes in Gaza if the world does not act urgently."
He emphasized that the Gaza Strip is suffering immensely, and that the aid provided is insignificant compared to the scale of the needs, stressing that "the situation demands urgent international action." He added, "It is time for the world's consciences to awaken and recognize the magnitude of the pain and catastrophe endured by the people of Gaza."
On Tuesday, the government media office in Gaza warned of a polar air mass that will affect the Gaza Strip from Wednesday until Friday evening, threatening hundreds of thousands of displaced families in the Strip.
He expressed his deep concern about the expected repercussions of the low-pressure system and the real risks it poses, namely the flooding of tents and the inundation of random displacement areas by rainwater.
He said that "this climatic reality doubles the size of the humanitarian disaster resulting from the war of extermination" that Israel started with American support on October 7, 2023, and which lasted for two years.
The Gaza Strip needs about 300,000 tents and prefabricated housing units to meet the most basic shelter needs of Palestinians, according to previous data from the office, after Israel destroyed the infrastructure during two years of annihilation.
