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At least 22,600 Palestinians have been killed and 57,910 wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday. About 162 Palestinians were killed and 296 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added. At least six people have been killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight.
The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, has described the Gaza Strip as having become “uninhabitable” after relentless bombing by Israeli forces. In a statement, Griffiths warned that a “public health disaster is unfolding” in the territory as people are facing “the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded”. “Famine is around the corner,” he added.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “appalled” by the “continuous” shelling of al-Amal hospital and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) headquarters in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In a statement on Friday, the IFRC said these strikes had resulted in the loss of innocent civilian lives, including a five-day-old infant, and that one of its medics had been injured.
The head of Unicef has said time is running out for children in Gaza who are “caught in a nightmare that worsens with every passing day”. Children in the territory face a “deadly triple threat” to their lives from the spread of diseases, plummeting nutrition and the escalation in fighting, Catherine Russell said in a statement, adding that most young children and women in the Gaza Strip are unable to meet their basic nutrition needs."
00.00 GMT
Closing summary
At least 22,600 Palestinians have been killed and 57,910 wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday. About 162 Palestinians were killed and 296 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added. At least six people have been killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight.
The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, has described the Gaza Strip as having become “uninhabitable” after relentless bombing by Israeli forces. In a statement, Griffiths warned that a “public health disaster is unfolding” in the territory as people are facing “the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded”. “Famine is around the corner,” he added.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “appalled” by the “continuous” shelling of al-Amal hospital and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) headquarters in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In a statement on Friday, the IFRC said these strikes had resulted in the loss of innocent civilian lives, including a five-day-old infant, and that one of its medics had been injured.
The head of Unicef has said time is running out for children in Gaza who are “caught in a nightmare that worsens with every passing day”. Children in the territory face a “deadly triple threat” to their lives from the spread of diseases, plummeting nutrition and the escalation in fighting, Catherine Russell said in a statement, adding that most young children and women in the Gaza Strip are unable to meet their basic nutrition needs."