al jazeera

By Edna Mohamed and Usaid Siddiqui

    No buildings remain standing in the southern part of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City as the Israeli ground operation launched earlier this month demolished more than 1,500 homes, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence.
   At least seven people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight and this morning, including a woman and her child in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
   All members of the UN Security Council, except the United States, jointly backed the IPC’s declaration that famine in Gaza is a ‘man-made crisis’ on Wednesday, despite Israel and the US attacking the findings.
   US President Donald Trump presided over a policy meeting on Israel’s war in Gaza and post-war plans for the Palestinian territory with input from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner, a senior White House official says.
   Israel has killed at least 62,895 people and wounded 158,927 in its war on Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Gaza death toll rises to seven

    Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least seven people overnight and this morning, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues on the ground.

    Among the victims, one was an aid seeker.

Four people killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Gaza

    At least four people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

    Two people, including a mother and her child, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp.

    One person was killed and others were wounded in an Israeli bombing of a residential apartment in the Remal neighbourhood west of Gaza City.

    At least one aid seeker was killed by Israeli fire near the so-called Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip.

    Moreover, an unspecified number of people were killed in an Israeli bombing attack that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.

Israel has demolished over 1,500 homes in Zeitoun: Gaza Civil Defence

    Israel has demolished more than 1,500 homes in the Zeitoun neighbourhood since it launched a ground offensive earlier this month to seize Gaza City, according to the enclave’s Civil Defence.

    Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the rescue service, told the Anadolu news agency that no buildings remain standing in the southern part of the neighbourhood.

    The Israeli army has employed construction machinery alongside bomb-laden robots, detonating seven sites daily while using quadcopter drones to drop explosives on house rooftops, Basal said.

    The weapons have intensified the scale of destruction in the area, he added.

    The systematic demolition has forced 80 percent of Zeitoun’s residents to leave and move towards the western or northern areas of Gaza City, said Basal.