British home secretary Suella Braverman is the first casualty among Western politicians of Israel’s war on Gaza. Braverman was sacked after demonizing Palestine solidarity protests, fueling far-right threats against demonstrators.

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The mass displacement of 2023 proves that the Nakba hasn’t been relegated to the history books, writes Eman Alhaj Ali from Gaza. “When elderly people try to navigate their way through the current crisis, the echoes of the Nakba resonate everywhere.”

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“Is killing childhood in Gaza really the goal of Israel’s war?” writes Ruwaida Amer from the bombarded and besieged coastal enclave. “Israel is displaying its inhumanity by robbing children of their right to live in peace.”

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Israel’s security cabinet authorized action against the Lebanese news channel Al Mayadeen for “making wartime efforts to harm [Israel’s] security interests and to serve the enemy’s goals,” Reuters reported. Israel’s communications minister Shlomo Karhi reportedly “was working with police on a proposed blocking of Al Mayadeen websites and seizure of equipment linked to the station.” A spokesperson for the communications ministry said that the security cabinet had not discussed shutting down Al Jazeera, despite Karhi saying last month that he would “seek cabinet approval to shut down Al Jazeera’s local operations,” as Reuters added.

US President Joe Biden said that al-Shifa hospital “must be protected” as Reuters reported that Israeli tanks were positioned at the gates of Gaza’s largest health facility. Biden called for “less intrusive action” by Israeli forces, which are armed by the US. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that “we do not want to see fire fights in hospitals” and claimed that the Israeli government “share that view.”

A surgeon with Doctors Without Borders at al-Shifa hospital reported that there is no electricity, food or water in the hospital. “People will die in a few hours without functioning ventilators,” the surgeon said. “In front of the main gate, there are many bodies, there are also injured patients, we can’t bring them inside.” When medics attempted to reach injured people, the ambulance was attacked. “There’s also a sniper who attacked patients, they have gunshot wounds, we operated on three of them,” the Doctors Without Borders surgeon added. The surgeon said that the medical team would only leave the hospital if patients were evacuated first. “There are 600 inpatients, 37 babies, someone who needs an [intensive care unit], we can’t leave them.”

Al Jazeera broadcast footage showing decaying bodies in the courtyard of al-Shifa hospital, where the Israeli military is shooting at anyone who moves. Rohan Talbot, a program director with Medical Aid for Palestinians, said that the charity had “received horrifying footage of dozens of decomposing bodies - seemingly including children - piled up outside Shifa Hospital. The morgue has no power and is overflowing, and it is too unsafe to take them away to bury them.”

Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, said that 32 patients at al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical facility in Gaza, had died in the past three days. Al-Qidra told Al Jazeera that al-Shifa hospital was in “the circle of death” with Israeli forces besieging it from all directions. He said that those who took a supposed safe passage indicated by Israel were targeted by sniper and artillery fire. Munir al-Bursh, the director general of the ministry, told Al Jazeera that Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who exited al-Shifa hospital who had removed his clothing to demonstrate that he was unarmed.

Humanitarian operations by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, will “grind to a halt within 48 hours” after depleting its fuel stocks in Gaza and as Israel bans the transfer of fuel to the territory. “We will not be able to receive aid coming through the Rafah crossing tomorrow,” the agency said. Thomas White, the director of UNRWA in Gaza, announced that a bulk reservoir of fuel in Gaza that the agency had accessed over the past three weeks with Israeli government coordination “is now empty.” A lack of fuel “means no pumping of sewage or waste removal,” posing “a serious threat to public health,” White said. “Disease outbreak will become a reality,” he added.

UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, said that more than 100 of its colleagues in Gaza had been killed since 7 October. “This is the highest number of aid workers killed in the history of our organization in such a short time,” said Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the United Nations office in Geneva. UNRWA said that its guesthouse in Rafah, southern Gaza, was significantly damaged by Israeli naval bombardment. “Over the last month, UNRWA recorded collateral and direct damage to more than 60 of its facilities, mostly schools sheltering each thousands of civilians across the Gaza Strip,” the agency said. “At least 66 displaced people were killed as a result and several hundreds injured.” Most of its facilities that were damaged are in the southern half of the Gaza Strip where Israel ordered people in the north to evacuate to.

The Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel warned that Gaza “will go into another telecom blackout if fuel isn’t allowed in by Thursday.”

The Palestine Red Crescent Society stated that hundreds of Palestinians under siege in Gaza City are requesting assistance for numerous people buried under rubble and injured people requiring emergency medical care. Israeli troops are preventing ambulance crews and civil defense teams from reaching people needing assistance, “targeting anyone who tries to move,” resulting in dozens of bodies of those killed in the streets. The humanitarian group called on urgent international intervention “to ensure safe access to ambulances and medical missions to those in need, in accordance with international humanitarian law.”

The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported “heavy gunfire” in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City. The humanitarian organization said that a convoy of vehicles accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross dispatched from the south of Gaza to evacuate patients and medical staff at Al-Quds Hospital was forced to turn back “due to relentless bombardment” in the Tel al-Hawa area. Patients, their family members and medical workers “remain besieged in the hospital with no food, water, or electricity,” the Red Crescent added.