Israel Intensifies Attack, Health System Collapses in Gaza Hospitals, Lack of Resources; 10 points

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  1. Israel says it has intensified its attacks on Gaza since Saturday night. Regarding the possible ground attack in Gaza, Israeli rear admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters that we are going to intensify the attack, the people of Gaza should evacuate from the south.
  2. Israel said it carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Saturday. During this time one of its soldiers was hit by an anti-tank missile, while the Iran-backed group said six of its fighters had been killed.
  3. Israel says it has killed “terrorists” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in an airstrike on al-Ansar mosque in Jenin in the West Bank. These terrorists were planning the attack. These people were using the mosque as a command center.
  4. Two Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
  5. The United States on Saturday presented a draft of a United Nations Security Council resolution that says Israel has the right to defend itself. It demanded that Iran stop exporting arms to “militia and terrorist groups that threaten peace and security throughout the region”.
  6. Médecins Sans Frontières has said that Gaza’s health care system is “facing collapse”. The International Medical Organization said on Saturday that hospitals in Gaza are severely under-resourced.
  7. Doctors in Gaza have warned that the lives of 130 premature babies are at risk due to fuel shortages. Melanie Ward, chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians, said the world cannot take lightly that these children have died as a result of the siege in Gaza.
  8. The Rafah crossing point between Egypt and Gaza was finally opened to aid on Saturday for the first time in two weeks, following negotiations by the US, Israel, Egypt and the United Nations.
  9. Under a US-brokered deal, only 20 trucks were allowed to cross the Rafah border on Saturday to deliver aid from the Egyptian Red Crescent to the Palestinian Red Crescent organization.
  10. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Saturday’s delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza was a welcome glimmer of hope. But this modest help is just a drop in the ocean.

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