The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that Israel’s bombardment of Gaza by its army targeted multiple locations in the Palestinian territory’s southern Khan Younis and Rafah areas, hitting residential areas and civilian infrastructure and resulting in a large number of deaths, the UN reports.

Those killed were in areas where Palestinians were ordered to relocate from northern Gaza by Israeli forces, the UN said.

It said almost 180,000 Palestinians are suffering from upper respiratory infections; approximately 136,400 people suffer from diarrhoea – half being children under five years old; more than 5,300 cases of chickenpox have been reported; 42,700 people are suffering from skin rashes; more than 4,680 have cases of Acute Jaundice Syndrome; and 126 cases of meningitis have been reported.

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