New wave of displacement of families in northern Gaza
Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows a new wave of displacement of families from areas in Beit Lahiya, as the Israeli military continues to bomb and besiege the north of Gaza.
Several videos published by activists and journalists on social media platforms showed families fleeing from the al-Sheema area, west of Beit Lahiya, towards Gaza City, amidst ongoing shelling and gunfire by the Israeli army.
Israeli forces’ regular use of lethal force ‘a horrifying escalation’, UN agency says
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), internationally mandated to monitor and report on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, has called for Israel to end its illegal occupation “as concluded by the International Court of Justice”.
“Israeli forces’ regular recourse to unlawful lethal force in the occupied West Bank is a horrifying escalation of an already explosive situation,” it said on X.
It noted that on Tuesday, in less than 23 hours, Israeli security forces killed eight Palestinian men using live ammunition, air strikes and other heavy munitions during operations in Tammun and Qabatiya in the West Bank.
On Sunday, Israeli forces shot in the abdomen and killed an unarmed 14-year-old Palestinian boy in Halhul, Hebron, in the West Bank, it said.
Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital a ‘war zone’, warns UNICEF
“The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a besieged war zone,” UNICEF in the MENA region said in a post on X.
“The last neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) remaining in the north has been damaged in heavy attacks in recent days. In the past year, 4,000 babies have been cut off from lifesaving newborn care because of sustained attacks on the hospitals,” the organisation added.