GAZA: Israeli air attacks have hit several areas across the Gaza Strip tonight, including multiple sites in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli air attacks also hit the Nuseirat refugee camp and the town of az-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip, as well as the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, according to Wafa.
No immediate details on the number of people killed and injured in the attacks were available.
Hospitals and other emergency services that usually report on deaths and injuries have been struggling to continue operations after Israel last week blocked land routes used to deliver fuel to run generators, months after cutting off all electricity supply.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says it has not been able to maintain a presence at the Rafah and Karen Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom to the Israelis) crossings into Gaza since Israel launched its ground offensive on Rafah city, and is unable to monitor the entry of aid trucks into the region, Al Jazeera reports.
UNRWA previously provided daily reports on the total number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip through these crossings — the vast majority of which were humanitarian deliveries from the UN, the Palestine Red Crescent and other aid organisations.
UNRWA said now, it can only track UN trucks that enter southern Gaza. The agency’s latest figures show only 69 such trucks have crossed into southern Gaza between May 6 to May 19, an average of fewer than five trucks per day.
This is significantly less than the average of 87 UN humanitarian trucks that entered Gaza through the two crossings per day in April.
