Israel continues its attacks across the Gaza Strip as health situation deteriorates due to polio

The Israeli army attacked the north, center and south of the Palestinian enclave of Gaza early Sunday, killing nearly 20 people, including several children, when houses were bombed, according to Palestinian sources.

At least four Palestinians were killed Northern camp Jabaliaestablished by the UN in 1948 to house displaced Palestinians after Israeli planes bombed two apartments, the Palestinian agency Wafa reported, saying rescue teams were still searching for victims in the rubble.

seven other people, including three childrenwere killed at dawn in an Israeli warplane attack on a residential tower block in the Nuseirat refugee camp (center), Al Jazeera reports.

In addition, the two Palestinians killed on Saturday in an Israeli drone attack on their vehicle in Jenin, the occupied West Bank, Hamas leadersThe Israeli army and the Islamist group’s armed wing, the Al Qasam Brigades, said late yesterday.

For 317 consecutive days, and now more than the 40,000 Palestinians dead, Israel continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip, ignoring the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has ordered it to avoid genocide in its military offensive.

In addition, at least 10,000 Palestinians are missing, presumed dead under the rubble, and more than 92,500 are wounded. In total, nearly two million people have been forcibly displaced from across the Gaza Strip, with no safe place to flee to.

Polio, hospital closures and humanitarian crisis as ceasefire awaits

Gaza woke up last Saturday to confirmation that polio is circulating in the enclave. new evacuation orders and news of the impending closure of one of the few hospitals still functioning, as ceasefire negotiations continue amid the hopes of the international community and the exchange of recriminations between Israel and Hamas.

Late Friday night, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, based in Ramallah (West Bank), recorded the first case of polio in Gaza, which has been free of the disease for 25 years.

“It affects a 10 month old boy “that he had not been vaccinated,” Health then announced, confirming the fears of the World Health Organization (WHO), which had been warning of a possible outbreak for a month when it announced the discovery of the virus in environmental samples taken in the Streep.

Palestinian authorities blamed the Israeli offensive in the Strip for the outbreak, saying it had made access and distribution of cleaning and hygiene products difficult, and had condemned the population to overcrowding due to waste and polluted water.

The humanitarian crisis resulting from the lack of access to basic resources also extends to access to fuel, which complicates the work of hospitals across the enclave, as only 16 of the 36 in the Strip are partially functioning.

In the north of the enclave there are only three, and one of them, the Al Awda of Jabalia, fears that it will have to stop its surgical activities tomorrow due to a lack of access to energy, the acting director, Mohammed Salha, warned this afternoon.

In the meantime, Antonius Blinkenthe head of US diplomacy, arrived in Israel tonight to continue his country’s “intense diplomatic efforts” as a broker of negotiations for the Gaza ceasefire.

The Doha summit, which Hamas did not attend because it demands compliance with the original US draft, will be followed next week by meetings in Cairo to discuss Joe Biden’s latest proposal, which aims to balance positions between Israel and the Islamists.

The sides clash over Israeli demands to maintain a military presence in the Philadelphia corridor – the border between Gaza and Egypt – to prevent arms smuggling, and in the Nitzarim corridor – which separates the north and south of the Gaza Strip – to prevent militia members from accessing the northern part of the enclave, which Hamas categorically rejects.