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Palestinian Territories
Israeli forces continued deadly assaults across Gaza, killing at least five people at a bakery in al-Mawasi, 10 in Nuseirat camp as well as targeting Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan neighbourhoods where another 10 people, including children, were killed.
Mahmoud Bassal, the spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence, said an Israeli bombing targeted a family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least three people.
Rescue workers said the three men were killed when the Israeli military shelled a group of Palestinians gathered in the vicinity of al-Nada residential towers in Beit Hanoon.
Bassal said the bodies of the three victims were taken to the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya. Five people were killed in an Israeli attack on a bakery in al-Sumoud camp for displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, Wafa reported.
Injuries as a result of the attack were also reported.
According to medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera, the number of people killed since dawn was 21.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that disease-spreading insects and rodents are threatening people’s health and well-being in the besieged and bombarded territory.
"UNRWA teams are working to help displaced families in shelters stop them from invading people’s already crammed living spaces,” UNRWA said in a post on X.
Rubbish has been piling up across Gaza after Israel seized control of the territory’s two main landfills, east of the cities of Khan Younis and Gaza City.
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said that because Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful, "it constitutes an aggression against the right of self-determination”.
"The Palestinians – like it or not – have the right to resist the oppression,” she said.
The UN Special Rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian territory was speaking remotely at a press conference for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The caveat, she said, is that this resistance has to be done "within the realm and the limits of international law, therefore civilians cannot be targeted, killed or taken hostage”.