According to the external relations director of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), at least 13 people were killed and 56 injured, including 21 seriously in Khan Younes, in shootings at a UN shelter housing displaced people from the Gaza Strip . The refuge in this city in the southern Palestinian enclave housed a UN training center that has been converted into a refuge since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. Philippe Lazzarini, an Unrwa official, denounced “a blatant violation of the basic rules of war.” Follow our live stream.
Khan Younes surrounded. The Israeli army announced that it had “surrounded” Khan Younes and urged the local population to head to Rafah, a town further south in the Palestinian enclave. But the fighting makes transportation dangerous to this city, 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,” said far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. According to him, the emirate was “responsible” for the deadly October 7 attacks by supporting Hamas.
Children from Gaza treated in Europe. In Europe, Rome and Paris announced that around a hundred Palestinian children injured in Gaza were being treated in Italian hospitals and that seven injured children had arrived in France for treatment.