In the Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv killed 48 Palestinians // Death toll in reoccupied West Bank rises to 29
▲ Vaccination centre in Al Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, yesterday.Photo Xinhua
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024, p. 22
Gaza. Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip in the context of their war against Hamas militants, while doctors administered some 87,000 polio doses to children under 10 years old on the second day of vaccinations.
The Israeli army has shelled Gaza City and the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps, the Gaza government said.
Hamas’s health ministry reported that the death toll in the enclave stood at 40,786 and the number of wounded at 94,244 since the war began on October 7.
Gazan health authorities explained that Medical teams have been able to vaccinate 158,992 children in two days.
Vaccinations will take place in central Gaza until tomorrow, then the campaign will move to the south of the enclave where it will be active until the 9th. The following four days are reserved for completing the city of Gaza and the north of the strip.
In the reoccupied West Bank, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has raised to 29 the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli army operation, the largest since more than two decades ago, when the second intifada ended.
The PA explained on its Telegram account that the Israeli offensive has left 18 martyrs in Jenin governorate, four in Tubas and Tulkarem respectively, and three in Hebron; he added that among the deceased There are five children and two elderly people.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later reported the deaths of at least 14 terrorists Palestinians and the arrest of 25 more since the start of the military offensive against Jenin six days ago.
A Palestinian in Israeli army custody died after being arrested early in the morning near Jenin.
The director of Jenin’s public hospital, Uisam Bakr, said the man named Aiman Rayi Abed was arrested in Kafr Dan and arrived at the hospital in handcuffs.
Hamas’s armed wing has claimed responsibility for two car bomb attacks in the West Bank over the weekend that left at least three people injured.
In northern Lebanon, Israeli settlements were attacked while the IDF killed two people, including a United Nations contractor, the health ministry said.
Attacks allegedly carried out by Houthis in Yemen hit two boats (the Amjadwith a Saudi flag, and the Blue Lagoon IPanamanian-flagged) in the Red Sea, shipping authorities reported.
Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility last night for the Blue Lagoonbut they did not mention the Saudi oil tanker.
At the time of going to press, the European Union mission in the Red Sea, Aspides, reported several fires on the oil tanker MV Sounion after an attack by Yemeni rebels, supported by Iran.