By Staff Reporter
Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground reports intense Israeli attacks on Khan Younis in southern Gaza with tents for displaced people engulfed in flames after missile strikes that also targeted residential buildings.
Residents and displaced Palestinians have been ordered by the Israeli military to immediately evacuate the Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya areas of northern Gaza, ahead of an expected “large scale” army operation.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has called on the UN to launch an international investigation into the “systematic torture of Palestinian detainees” amid reports of serious abuses in Israeli prisons, including rape.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel’s continuing assault on Gaza is presenting multiple hurdles to its campaign to prevent a devastating outbreak of polio in the Palestinian territory.
At least 39,677 people have been killed and 91,645 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.
Source: Aljazeera
