Several Palestinians were killed and injured on Sunday after Israeli warplanes bombed two houses in Gaza City and Khan Younis province in the Gaza Strip, while the WFP accused Israel of destroying fuel stocks with a strike on the port of Hodeidah.
A medical source at Baptist Hospital in Gaza told media:
“We have received several martyrs due to an Israeli strike on a house on Al-Shuhada Street in Gaza City.”
Eyewitnesses reported that warplanes struck the Abu Rida family home in Abasan al-Kabira town east of Khan Younis town in Khan Younis governorate, killing and injuring people. The injured were taken by medical and civil defence teams to Gaza European Hospital.
The Israeli offensive has killed more than 40,400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 93,000, according to local health authorities.
More than 2.3 million Gazans suffer from persistent shortages of food, drinking water and medicine due to heavy bombardment by Israel. The region is facing a massive humanitarian disaster.
Israel destroyed WFP fuel stocks
Meanwhile, a report released on Sunday by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on July 20 destroyed some 800,000 litres of fuel belonging to the organisation.
“Some 800,000 litres of fuel belonging to WFP and intended for on-demand services were destroyed as a result of airstrikes on the port of Hodeidah on July 20,” the report on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, which uses the alternative spelling of port, said.
The airstrikes on the port, which is controlled by the Houthi group, caused numerous casualties and material damage estimated at $20 million.
The strikes followed a Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv a day earlier that killed one Israeli and wounded nine others in response to Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
Yemeni authorities initially reported six dead and dozens wounded. After the attack, the bodies of nine workers were found in the port and fuel depots.
Israel is accused of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice, which has ordered a halt to military operations in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians took refuge before the May 6 invasion of the area.
