Israeli attacks destroy six mosques, four schools in Gaza

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip for the third day in a row resulted in the destruction of six mosques and four schools since the outbreak of the aggression on Saturday.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that the occupation aircraft destroyed four mosques in Gaza City, a mosque in Khan Yunis, and another in Beit Lahia.
The occupation aircraft also bombed four schools belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), partially destroying them, reported WAFA.
The death toll of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has risen to 508 martyrs on Monday and 2,800 injured, in addition to major destruction of homes, residential buildings, property and infrastructure. In another context, the Israeli occupation forces continued on Monday to tighten their military measures in the northern governorates for the third consecutive day by closing checkpoints and entrances to cities, towns, and villages and obstructing the movement of Palestinian citizens.
OVER 70,000 DISPLACED
IN UNRWA SCHOOLS
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that nearly 74,000 displaced people are now in 64 UNRWA schools and shelters, with numbers likely to increase as heavy shelling and airstrikes continue on civilian areas, QNA added.
An UNRWA school sheltering displaced families in the Gaza Strip was hit directly. The school, sheltering more than 225 people, was severely damaged, UNRWA said.
UNRWA teams are providing families with shelter and clean water. Supplies are being prepared to deliver to families, including food, hygiene kits and cleaning supplies.
UNRWA has called for an immediate ceasefire and a halt to the violence everywhere, it added.
Schools and other civilian infrastructure, including those sheltering displaced families, must never come under attack, UNRWA said.
MINISTRY WARNS ON
HEALTH SITUATION
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has warned that the mounting Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has aggravated the health situation as hospitals are facing a major shortage of electricity, medicines, and fuel due to the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.
Most areas in Gaza are off the grid because the Israeli entity has stopped supplying Gaza with energy after imposing a full blockade, with the national supplier being unable to supply the Strip with electricity needs which is obviously less than 20%.
The persistent crisis of electricity poses a challenge for the health system and a risk for hundreds of wounded people and patients in the sensitive sections, the ministry said in a statement.
It added that technical and engineering crews are operating around the clock to ensure the operation of electric generators that require 40,000 litres of diesel per day in case of a power blackout for 12 hours. The ministry has called on the international community and all relevant entities to ramp up pressure on the Israeli occupation to recommission the power grids because lack of electricity will pose danger to the health and humanitarian system and have called for urgent action on the part of all entities to provide these essentials.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) pointed out that the occupation’s fighter jets are directly targeting ambulance vehicles and have so far targeted an ambulance vehicle carrying wounded people and have destroyed it, with the medical crew being injured, and stressed that since the onset of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the occupation has been intentionally targeting civil and ambulance vehicles carrying injured people.
For the third day, the occupation warplanes continued launching hundreds of airstrikes on Gaza targeting residential towers and critical infrastructures.