Images taken at a school in Khan Younis showed where a single shell appeared to have landed on the concrete upper floor where people were living during the late Sunday night attack.
The attack left 13 people dead and 48 injured, according to the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. According to the victims, there was no warning.
“It’s another extremely dangerous night here in the Gaza Strip. Every day we wake up to new fears,” Louise Waterridge, UNRWA’s senior emergency officer, told UN News. .
“I went to Nasser Hospital this morning. One of the children I told her name was Mona, 17 years old. She has a very serious injury to her leg – she has very severe injuries from shrapnel. She was injured – and she was in the hospital with her sister… Their mother died under the rubble.”
Another victim, 2-year-old Julia, suffered severe head trauma and lost vision in one eye. Her 5-year-old brother also suffered severe head injuries.
Young people and their families from Gaza City “have been forcibly relocated seven or eight times,” Waterridge said. “They ended up going to (UNRWA) school and they’ve been there for the past seven months and now this – they feel so hopeless.”
Amount of damage to young people
The development followed an update from the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF chief who said more than 14,500 young people had reportedly been killed in Gaza. Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble.
Meanwhile, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a social media post that hunger “remains looming in the north” and humanitarian access is “severely restricted”.
Israeli military operations in the past 24 hours have left at least 69 Palestinians dead, from Beit Lahia in the north to Palestine, with media reporting that “virtually all of Gaza’s 1.1 million children are under protection and mental health emergency”. We need support,” she added. Rafah in the south.
food aid blocked
Reflecting these concerns, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned that Gazans are now deeply concerned about not having enough to eat. If a ceasefire doesn’t happen, “we’ll have to find a way to get all the food that’s outside Gaza out of Gaza,” said Jonathan Dumont, WFP’s emergency communications chief.
“The devastation is absolutely astonishing,” he continued in an online message from Gaza.
“There’s no electricity, no running water, no sewage (treatment). Almost everyone has lost their homes. Many are living in tents. We have hot meals and handouts…People have come and are really desperate. You can see it on their faces and in their eyes. To prevent hunger, we need to find ways to provide a steady supply of food.”
