Israel battles Hamas in Gaza as space for displaced families narrows
Video obtained by Reuters shows the moment a building in Gaza’s Nuseirat was hit by an Israel i strike. Video: ReutersIt said 52 year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a member of the Bedouin community in southern Israel , had been transferred to hospital and his medical condition was normal.
Mr Alkadi was taken hostage in Kibbutz Magen, one of a string of communities around the Gaza Strip that were attacked by Hamas-led fighters on October 7th.displaced by fighting in the Gaza Strip crowded on to the seashore as Israeli forces continued to battle Hamas fighters in central and southern areas, with health officials reporting at least 17 people killed in strikes on Tuesday.
“Maybe they should bring ships, so next time they order people to leave we can jump there, people are now on the beach near the seawater,” said Aya a displaced woman from Gaza City, who now lives with her family in western Deir Al-Balah. More than 40,400 Palestinians have been killed in the war, said Gaza's health ministry. The crowded enclave has been laid to waste and most of its 2.3 million people have been displaced multiple times and face acute shortages of food and medicine, humanitarian agencies say.
The evacuation order came as the UN has been preparing a campaign to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, after at least one case of the disease was identified.
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