A Palestinian family sits around a fire amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP
The Palestinian news agency Safa said Israeli aircraft carried out three airstrikes on the eastern part of Khan Younis city, accompanied by low-altitude drone flights over the area. Israeli gunboats also opened fire off the coast of Rafah city.
Separately, large-scale demolition operations were reported northeast of Khan Younis city.
Despite the Gaza Agreement ceasefire, proposed by US President Donald Trump and signed at the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit for Peace by mediators Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey on 10 October, Israel has continued to carry out strikes across the Gaza Strip, killing over 250 Palestinians, according to local authorities.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) highlighted the long-term impact of the conflict on Gaza’s children. On Friday, the agency posted on X that “after two years of war, reportedly 1 in 5 children in Gaza have missed essential vaccines.”
UNRWA, together with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other partners, has launched a catch-up immunisation campaign aiming to reach 44,000 children with life-saving vaccines and malnutrition screenings. The agency said it will provide services through 24 health centres and medical points across the Strip.
Children make up nearly half of Gaza’s population, around 980,000, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
The vaccination campaign follows two years of Israeli bombardment that caused the near-total collapse of Gaza’s health system, disrupting routine immunisation programmes and depriving hundreds of thousands of children of essential care.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 68,858 Palestinians and wounded 170,664 others, most of them women and children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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