Agencies
Gaza
At least eight people, including children and women, were killed in an Israeli bombardment of school complex housing displaced families in northern Gaza’s Jabalia Al-Balad area.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA in the West Bank reported, citing Palestinian sources, that at least eight people were killed in the attack on the complex. WAFA said refugee families had found shelter in the former school.
Almost 46,000 people have been killed in gaza since the war began, according to Palestinian estimates.
Fire and rescue services in embattled Gaza are only partially operational, the local civil defence authority said on Saturday.
Some of the emergency vehicles in the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis are no longer running because there are no spare parts to maintain them, according to a statement from the Hamas-controlled authority.
Spare parts warehouses and workshops have been destroyed in the course of the war by Israeli airstrikes, it said.
In addition, a severe fuel shortage has rendered more than half of the rescue service vehicles in the Gaza Strip non-operational, it said.
The Civil Defence appealed to regional and international humanitarian organizations to urgently bring spare parts and equipment to Gaza so that the emergency services transport can be maintained.