A automotive bearing the United Nations (UN) emblem drives previous rubble within the aftermath of Israeli bombing in Rafah within the southern Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2023.
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The United Nations stated a number of individuals have been killed and wounded in strikes on a UN facility in Gaza City, the place lots of of Palestinians have taken refuge to flee the conflict.
“The shelling has reportedly resulted in a significant number of deaths and injuries,” the United Nations Development Programme stated in a press release issued late Saturday.
“The ongoing tragedy of death and injury to civilians ensnared in this conflict is unacceptable and must stop.”
In a separate incident, AFPTV footage confirmed a crater in the midst of a compound of a college run by the UN company for supporting Palestinians (UNRWA) in Beit Lahia in north Gaza.
Thousands of individuals displaced by the conflict had taken refuge within the faculty.
Israel has been bombing targets throughout the Gaza Strip since Hamas fighters carried out an unprecedented lethal assault on southern Israeli communities on October 7.
About 1,200 individuals, principally civilians, had been killed within the Hamas assaults and round 240 individuals taken hostage, in accordance with Israeli officers.
In retaliatory Israeli strikes greater than 11,000, additionally principally civilians, have been killed in Gaza, in accordance with Hamas well being ministry within the territory.
The ministry has not given up to date casualty figures for 48 hours, saying it has been unable to determine contact with hospitals.
It stated dozens of our bodies are scattered on the streets whereas ambulances have been unable to succeed in the deaths as a consequence of intense combating and bombings.
UNRWA introduced on Friday that greater than 100 of its staff had died within the Gaza Strip because the begin of the conflict.
Source: www.thehindu.com
