A video shot by an NBC News crew on the ground showed several houses reduced to rubble by Israeli strikes, and bodies of the dead, including children, wrapped in shrouds at a Kuwaiti specialized hospital in Rafah. Hospital leaders also warned of a growing crisis trying to treat the wounded after the Al-Najjar hospital east of Rafah was forced to close due to Israeli evacuation orders. according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The World Food Programme It warned on Thursday that “no aid” had come in from the southern Rafah border crossing with Egypt for two full days.
“Only 1 bakery is still operating. Food and fuel supplies in Gaza will last only 1-3 days,” Matthew Hollingworth, Palestine director of the World Food Program, wrote on page X. “Without them, our operations would stop.”
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths warned on Thursday that aid must be allowed through the crossing into Gaza.
“Civilians are starving and being killed in Gaza, and it is impossible for us to help them,” he said after “seven months of horror.”
Israel Defense Forces he said Dozens of humanitarian aid vehicles entered Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing on Thursday, and the Israeli military said Israel was keeping the crossing open “despite Hamas’ continued rocket fire into the area.”
The Palestinian Authority for Crossings said on Thursday that the crossings were still closed and under the control of Israeli forces.
Local health officials said more than 34,900 people had been killed and 1,200 killed and 250 hostages taken in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, according to Israeli officials. a decades-long conflict.