Tel Aviv [Israel], February 7: The Hamas-controlled health authority said 107 Palestinians have been killed within 24 hours in attacks by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. More than 140 others were injured during this period, the authority announced on Tuesday.
This brings the number of people killed in the coastal strip since the start of the war on October 7 to at least 27,585. Almost 67,000 others have been injured. The figures cannot be independently verified.
Fighting has been particularly fierce for weeks in Khan Younis, a city in the south of the coastal strip.
Palestinian journalist Hassan Islah has shared video on his Instagram account showing a residential building in the city's Al-Amal neighbourhood on fire and still full of people.
Islah said Israeli forces targeted the building, where the families of two of his journalist colleagues live, with several artillery shells on Monday, causing a section to catch on fire. It continued to burn.
Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif reported that about 10 people have been killed and 10 wounded in an Israeli aerial attack on the al-Shanti family home east of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Israel suspects the leadership of the Palestinian Hamas movement is sheltering in an underground network of tunnels there. It is also considered likely that hostages are being held there by Hamas.
On Monday evening, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced that the army would advance further into the city of Rafah, which lies on the border with Egypt.
Rafah, where around 200,000 people lived before the war, is currently crowded with more than 1 million Palestinians who have fled the fighting from other parts of the Gaza Strip.
Egypt, with which Israel has signed a peace treaty, is also opposed to an Israeli offensive in the border area. Cairo fears that military operations in Rafah could lead to a rush of desperate Palestinians fleeing to the Egyptian peninsula of Sinai, which would be completely unacceptable for Egypt.
Some 8,000 displaced people have been evacuated from Gaza hospital, said Red Cross.
The internally displaced people have been evacuated from the besieged al-Amal hospital in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Younis where they had sought refuge, according to the Red Cross.
"The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is beyond catastrophic. The situation is simply deteriorating every other minute," Tommaso Della Longa, spokesperson of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said during a news briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
Source: Qatar Tribune
