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Rafah bombing intensifies despite ceasefire call

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Published: 16:51, 27 March 2024

Rafah bombing intensifies despite ceasefire call

Photo: Al Jazeera

Attacks continue and the situation on the ground remains dire despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan.

Hamas says Israel is “losing political cover and protection even in the Security Council” and “the US is unable to impose its will on the international community”.

The number of people killed in Israel’s war on Gaza has increased to 32,490, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Israeli attacks in Gaza have also wounded at least 74,889 people since October 7. The latest figures include 76 people killed and 102 wounded over the latest 24-hour reporting period.

The UNRWA says there has been no significant change in the influx of supplies to Gaza or improvement in access to the north, where famine is the worst.

It said over the first 25 days of March, an average of 155 aid trucks reached Gaza daily via land crossings, far below the crossings’ capacity of 500.

The UNRWA added that the number of displaced people in Gaza has now climbed to 1.7 million – 75 percent of the enclave’s population – with the majority of them forcibly displaced multiple times.

Emergency medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have rushed to the scene of an Israeli attack on the Bureij camp in central Gaza, where at least two people were killed and many injured.

PRCS says its rescuers have retrieved the body of one person and transported three people who were wounded to receive treatment.

 

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