Israel-Hamas live: UN says Gaza shelters ‘not safe’, water running out

14- October-2023- Aljazeera

  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says its shelters in Gaza “are not safe anymore” as it warns water is running out for the besieged enclave’s 2.3 million residents.
  • More than 320 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, including many women and children killed in Israeli air raids on convoys fleeing Gaza City, according to health officials.
  • The rising toll comes as Israel continues bombing Gaza a day after telling 1.1 million residents to head south ahead of a looming ground offensive following Hamas’s attack inside Israel last week.
  • At least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed and 8,714 wounded in Israeli air attacks on Gaza. The number of people killed in Israel has reached 1,300, with more than 3,400 wounded.
  • In the occupied West Bank, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the past week has topped 50. More than 1,000 have been wounded and hundreds arrested.

I’m starting my day with the first air strike in the morning’: Gaza doctor

Omar Najjar, a 24-year doctor at the Al-Nasser complex in Khan Younis, has described to Al Jazeera a day in the life of medical workers in Gaza:

“I’m starting my day with the first air strike in the morning. We run to the emergency room and we are directly managing the patients. Many times we are asking if those patients are our relatives. Many times we can see our close friends, close members of our family in the emergency room.

“Here in the hospital we have been officially informed by managers … that we will totally run out of electricity completely within 48 hours or maybe less. Everyday I’m going to stitch some patients, I can’t find the stitches, I can’t find the gauze. There are more than 30,000 people who are also taking this hospital as home [shelter], so this also may be a barrier for our work inside the hospital

Germany’s Scholz says important to avoid Hezbollah intervention

Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany, has held a phone conversation with Netanyahu during which he reiterated that his country “stands unwaveringly at Israel’s side”, according to a spokesperson.

The two also agreed it was important to avoid a wider war in the region as well as Hezbollah’s intervention in the conflict, the spokesperson said.

There have been several bouts of cross-border exchange of fire between the Lebanese group and Israeli forces since Hamas’s attack last week.

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