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Gaza/West Bank
At least 21 Palestinians have been killed and 61 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The total death toll since October 7 last year has risen to 45,227, the ministry said. It added that 107,573 people have also been injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. According to the WAFA news agency, Israeli air attacks killed two people in Khirbet al-Adas, northeast of Rafah, and two others near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
A number of people were also injured in an Israeli drone attack at Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Yunis.
The report quoted medical sources saying Israeli forces continue to target Kamal Adwan Hospital, including shelling its third floor and the hospital doors on Friday. They also said the situation in the hospital is still critical due to a severe shortage of supplies, equipment, medicines and food.
Israeli forces have reportedly shot and killed a 37-year-old man in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The man was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital, it said. Palestinian media reported that the shooting occurred in a village near Jenin, close to a barrier separating Israel from the Palestinian territory. Since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, the security situation in the West Bank has significantly worsened. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 785 Palestinians have since been killed in military operations and armed clashes in the region.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has issued an urgent appeal for medical and food supplies to be delivered to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in besieged northern Gaza. The ministry said in a statement that there was continuous gunfire and Israeli shelling near the hospital.
Pope Francis has condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty”, a day after the enclave’s rescue agency said an Israeli air attack killed seven children from one family. "Yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty, this is not war. I want to say it because it touches my heart,” he told an audience of members of the government of the Holy See.