Israeli strikes continued to rain down on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least nine Palestinians in both the territory’s north and south.
At least five people were killed in Beit Lahia, and three others killed in Jabalia – two locations heavily targeted by Israeli forces in recent weeks as part of a military operation in northern Gaza.
Another casualty was reported in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
The deadly strikes come after an Israeli attack on a vaccination centre in northern Gaza, which wounded six people, including four children on Saturday.
The Gaza civil defence agency source told AFP that it was “an Israeli quadcopter that fired two missiles which hit the wall of Sheikh Radwan clinic”.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the health centre was “in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed” and the attack could off parents of children needing a second vaccine to be covered.
This comes as UNICEF chief Catherine Russell warned that in the past 48 hours along, over 50 children have been killed in Jabalia, and that the “entire Palestinian population in North Gaza, especially children, is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine, and the ongoing bombardments”.
Also on Sunday, the Israeli army claimed it has killed two senior Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon’s Khiam.
The commanders were named as Farouq Amin al-Ashi and Yousef Ahmed Noun, according to the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee.
