A Palestinian citizen was martyred by Israeli occupation army bullets this Tuesday morning during an incursion into the Eastern Satar area, located north of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that teams were able to retrieve the martyr's body and transport it to the hospital, while a number of victims remain under the rubble and in rugged roads due to continuous targeting and preventing ambulance crews from reaching them.
In a related context, medical statistics revealed the arrival of the bodies of 18 martyrs to the Strip's hospitals over the past twenty-four hours, as a result of scattered raids and sniping operations. These field developments come at a time when the death toll from the ongoing aggression since October 2023 has exceeded 72,000 martyrs and nearly 171,000 injured, amidst massive destruction affecting 90% of the infrastructure.
For its part, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that the ongoing military aggression against Iran has cast its dark shadow directly on the already deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza. The office explained that the closure of border crossings, including the Rafah crossing, has led to a complete paralysis in the movement of supplies and international personnel, threatening an imminent health and environmental catastrophe.
The UN statement indicated that fuel reserves have begun to run out sharply, forcing service institutions to ration consumption to the lowest levels, which has effectively affected the work of bakeries, hospitals, and water desalination plants. Waste collection services have also stopped in several areas, increasing the risks of epidemic spread among displaced persons suffering from a severe lack of basic necessities of life.
Regarding daily needs, local sources mentioned that some residents of the Strip now receive only two liters of drinking water per day, a rate far below minimum international standards. This scarcity coincided with a significant jump in the prices of basic food commodities in local markets, due to the cessation of supply chains and the closure of land crossings since the start of the regional escalation last Saturday.
In contrast, the Israeli occupation authorities announced their intention to gradually reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing starting this Tuesday, to allow the entry of limited quantities of humanitarian aid. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories stated that this decision came based on security assessments, after a period of closure that began with the launch of widespread Israeli-American attacks on Iranian territory.
There is a state of international concern about the Israeli government's evasion of ceasefire commitments in Gaza, exploiting the world's preoccupation with military escalation with Tehran. Reports confirm that recent attacks targeting Iranian facilities and leading to the death of prominent leaders have further complicated the field situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, where the occupation continues to control more than half of the Gaza Strip's area.
Continued complete siege and closure of crossings threaten to completely stop the flow of vital supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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A dead in Khan Yunis and UN warnings of repercussions of regional escalation on Gaza