Shooting against a UN shelter housing displaced people from the Gaza Strip left at least 13 dead and 56 injured, including 21 seriously in Khan Younes, according to the director of external relations of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa). The refuge, in this town in the south of the Palestinian enclave, housed a UN training center, transformed into a shelter since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. Philippe Lazzarini, an Unrwa official, castigated “a flagrant violation of the fundamental rules of war.” Follow our live stream.
Khan Younes surrounded. The Israeli army announced that it had “surrounded” Khan Younes and called on the local population to move to Rafah, a town located further south in the Palestinian enclave. But the fighting makes transport to this city dangerous, where the majority of the 1.7 million Palestinians already displaced by the war are concentrated.
Israel blames Qatar. “Qatar is a country that supports and finances terrorism”declared thehe Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, a figure of the extreme right. According to him, the emirate is “responsible” deadly attacks of October 7 by supporting Hamas.
Gazan children treated in Europe. In Europe, Rome and Paris respectively announced that around a hundred Palestinian children injured in Gaza would be treated in Italian hospitals and that seven injured children had arrived in France for treatment.