A picture taken from Rafah on January 5, 2024 shows smoke billowing over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment. (Photo by AFP)
Reports of people being killed in Israeli attacks continued as the UN warned that "people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on".
There were reports of Israeli strikes early Saturday on Gaza's southern city of Rafah, where thousands seek shelter from the fighting.
Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict, with the UN warning of a deepening humanitarian crisis as famine looms and disease spreads.
AFP report quoted Abu Mohammed, 60, who fled to Rafah from the central Bureij refugee camp, as saying that Gaza's future was "dark and gloomy and very difficult".
With much of the territory already reduced to rubble, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said Friday that "Gaza has simply become uninhabitable".
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[1:40pm Doha Time] Israeli army exhumed 1,100 graves from cemetery in Gaza City: Gaza media office
The government media office in Gaza says that the Israeli army has exhumed 1,100 graves in Tuffah cemetery, east of Gaza, and “stole” 150 bodies.
The office added in a statement that this is not the first time that Israeli forces have committed such an act and pointed to the delivery of 80 bodies last month that it had taken from the Gaza City and northern Gaza areas.
[1:20pm Doha Time] Israeli attacks kill 122 Palestinians, injure 256 in past 24 hours: Ministry
Israeli military attacks in Gaza have killed 122 Palestinians and injured a further 256 in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
This brings the total Palestinian death toll since October 7 to 22,722, with 58,166 injured, the ministry said.
A further 7,000 Palestinians are still missing.
Relatives of Palestinians killed during Israeli bombardment, mourn their loved ones at the European hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 6, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
[11:45am Doha Time] Israeli forces intensifying operations in az-Zawayda
Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military is stepping up its military action and air strikes in az-Zawayda in an attempt to clear the way for its forces to invade the heart of central Gaza.
Az-Zawayda is a strategic location because from there it is easy to get to all the entrances of central Gaza’s refugee camps.
There are reports of attack drones hovering at low levels and tragically targeting people who are trying to flee the horror of the bombs. Injuries and deaths from these attacks have been reported at al-Aqsa Hospital.
A picture taken from Rafah on January 6, 2024 shows smoke billowing over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo by AFP)
[11:30am Doha Time] Palestinian man mourns loss of wife, two children in overnight strikes
“The Israeli government claims democracy and humanity, but they are inhumane,” says Abdel Razek Abu Sinjar, whose wife and two children were killed in overnight Israeli strikes in southern Gaza.
“They killed women and children who have nothing to do with this [war].”
[8:45am Doha Time] UN says ‘Gaza has simply become uninhabitable’
The UN has warned that Gaza has become “uninhabitable” after three months of fighting where more than 22,600 Palestinians have been killed and almost 58,000 wounded.
Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict, with the UN warning of a deepening humanitarian crisis as famine looms and disease spreads.
Three months since the horrific 7 October attacks, Gaza has become a place of death and despair.
— Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) January 5, 2024
This war should never have started. But it’s long past time for it to end.
My statement:https://t.co/lkUlogG3Cm pic.twitter.com/kLFBZsKGLt
With much of the territory already reduced to rubble, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said Friday that “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable”.
The UN’s children’s agency warned that clashes, malnutrition and a lack of health services had created “a deadly cycle that threatens over 1.1 million children” in Gaza.
[8:30am Doha Time] Intensifying Israeli raids on occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem new fronts in war
In occupied East Jerusalem, there has been an ongoing battle in the Shuafat refugee camp and there has been fierce resistance as the Israeli army entered, stated Al Jazeera.
In the occupied West Bank, there have been raids in Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron.
It has been ongoing in Nablus and in the Balata refugee camp to the south. There has been fierce resistance as well.
In Bethlehem, three people were arrested with local reports stating that they were brutally beaten at the time.
Many people in the occupied West Bank say this is collective punishment against the people. There have been more than 5,000 arrests and 326 Palestinian people killed since the start of the war on Gaza.
[8am Doha Time] Death toll in Israeli bombing in Khan Younis increases to 18: Reports
Death toll from the reported Israeli bombing of a house in the al-Manara neighbourhood of Khan Younis overnight in southern Gaza has increased to 18.
Al Jazeera Arabic reported the new death toll, and that several others were injured in the attack on the family residence.
Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, reported earlier that 10 people, mostly women and children, were killed in the attack in al-Manara.
Al Jazeera Arabic also reported that three people were killed in an overnight strike on a home in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
