Netanyahu claims Israel will ‘resign Hamas to the dustbin of history’
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in a blast in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, a hospital director has said, as the UN has warned children in the besieged enclave face dying of thirst.
The director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital told Al Jazeera that more than 50 Palestinians were killed and 150 wounded in the air strike in a densely populated area of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Meanwhile, James Elder, a spokesperson for the UN children’s agency in Geneva, warned of the risk of infant deaths due to dehydration. Children in Gaza were getting sick from drinking salty water, he said.
About 940 children are reported missing in the territory, he said, with some thought to be stuck beneath the rubble of buildings flattened by Israeli air strikes.
It comes as the UN and other aid officials have warned that a public health catastrophe is engulfing civilians in the Strip, with hospitals struggling to cope with mounting casualties and food, medicine, drinking water and fuel running short.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed international calls for a halt to the fighting.
