GAZA STRIP, March 29 — The world’s top court has ordered Israel to ensure urgent humanitarian assistance reaches people in the Gaza Strip, where fighting continued today...
Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip after being dropped from an aircraft, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, March 29, 2024. — AFP picGAZA STRIP, March 29 — The world’s top court has ordered Israel to ensure urgent humanitarian assistance reaches people in the Gaza Strip, where fighting continued today including around hospitals despite a binding UN ceasefire call.
Among the dead were 12 people killed in a home in the southern city of Rafah, which has been regularly bombed ahead of a mooted Israeli ground operation against Hamas militants there. Large parts of the territory have been reduced to rubble, and most of Gaza’s population are now sheltering at its southern tip, Rafah.
Israel has blamed shortages on the Palestinian side, namely a lack of capacity to distribute assistance once it gets in. Palestinians inspect the damage to a building after overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. — AFP picThe UN says Gaza’s health system is collapsing “due to ongoing hostilities and access constraints”.
Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles have massed around another Khan Yunis health facility, the Nasser Hospital, the Gaza health ministry said.Palestinians mourn over the body of relatives, killed in Israeli bombardment the night before, the European hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
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