So far, at least nine bodies have been recovered by the Palestinian Civil Defence there, Al Jazeera reported.
Right now all eyes are on Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp where an unannounced curfew is in place.
Nobody has been able to leave their home. Anybody attempting to do so is being shot at by Israeli forces, residents tell us.
Nearby in Huwara, further to the south in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli settler took to the street, shot at Palestinians in that street, and was protected, as per usual, by Israeli soldiers, bringing life in that main artery also to a halt.
The fact that the “international community is begging Israel to vaccine children tells you to what extent this war has become immoral and genocidal”, Dr Tamer Qarmout, an assistant professor in public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera.
Rather than allow temporary pauses for polio vaccinations, he said Israel’s war on Gaza needs to end he said.
“The health sector in Gaza has been systematically destroyed and targeted,” he said, adding that a three-day pause “will never be enough to vaccinate 30 or 40 percent of Gaza’s population, which are young and children”.
He described it as “a sick joke by the Israelis to say, we offer you three days to vaccine children, knowing that the entire health sector has been destroyed” with no clinics and “no basic conditions whatsoever to provide this vaccine.”
The United Nations humanitarian affairs office says Israel nearly doubled its rejections of aid missions in Gaza this month despite calls for much more assistance for desperate Palestinians.
“In August, the number of humanitarian missions and movements within Gaza that have been denied access by Israeli authorities has doubled in the north (68 vs 30) and almost doubled in the south (99 vs 53) compared with July,” the group said in a situation update.
“Between 1 and 29 August, out of the 199 planned humanitarian missions coordinated with the Israeli authorities for northern Gaza, 74 (37 percent) were facilitated, 68 (34 percent) were denied access, 42 (21 percent) were impeded (including missions that succeeded), and 15 (8 percent) were cancelled due to logistical, operational, or security issues.”
The International Court of Justice has issued numerous legally binding orders for Israel to allow more aid into Gaza, but Israeli authorities have instead consistently blocked large portions of humanitarian assistance.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says that a volunteer doctor was shot in the hand, and two other emergency medical teams sustained facial injuries from shrapnel in Jenin in the occupied West Bank after Israeli forces targeted a PRCS ambulance.
