Usman Khawaja mutedly protests Gaza by donning a Black Armband<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAccording to a group official who spoke to the Reuters news agency, one of the dead was the son of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Dawoud Shehab.<\/p>\n
He stated over the phone, “We think there are a lot of dead people under the rubble, but the intensity of Israeli fire makes it impossible to remove the rubble and recover them.”<\/p>\n
In Rafah, south of Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a house resulted in the deaths of at least four Palestinians, according to medics in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, where at least 12 Palestinians were killed and scores injured.<\/p>\n
Since October 7, there have been roughly 19,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza. Israel claims that day 1,147 people died on its soil.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Israel has also ramped up its artillery shelling in southern Gaza, hitting the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, where the majority of displaced Palestinians are sheltering.<\/p>\n
The stepping up of bombardments in the south has worsened the humanitarian situation, with starving people scrambling for food and water, grabbing them from aid trucks in desperation.<\/p>\n
Israel on Sunday said it will reopen the Karem Abu Salem Crossing in the east but it is unclear whether supplies have crossed through there yet.<\/p>\n
The United Nations estimates that 1.9 million people \u2013 about 80 percent of Gaza\u2019s population \u2013 have been displaced by the war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would not be surprised if people start dying of hunger, or a combination of hunger, disease, weak immunity,\u201d said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Israel has increased its artillery bombardment of Rafah and Khan Younis Over 100 people have been injured and at least 90 people have died as a result of the most recent Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the enclave’s Health Ministry said that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,3],"tags":[10377,10125,10114],"class_list":["post-21102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-world","tag-attack","tag-gaza","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}