XINHUA – Israeli airstrikes claimed the lives of at least 22 Palestinians, including a journalist, as fuel shortages threaten to plunge Gaza into a communications blackout, officials warned.
The Civil Defence in Gaza reported eight fatalities and several injuries from an airstrike targeting a group of people and a house in the Shuja’iyya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Later, an airstrike on the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed seven people.
In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, medical officials at Nasser Hospital said that four bodies were recovered after aerial and artillery attacks struck multiple locations in the city. In Al-Nuseirat, central Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital reported three deaths, including journalist Sa’ed Nabhan of Al-Ghad TV, and six injuries from artillery shelling and drone strikes.
With the death of Nabhan, the number of journalists killed since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, has risen to 203, according to the government media office in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Abdul Razzaq Al-Natsha warned that communication services, including Internet and landlines, could be cut off due to fuel shortages.
