Between Wednesday and Friday afternoon, a further 113 Palestinian people were killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces and 637 were injured, according to the latest UN situation report, Al Jazeera reports.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports that amid Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza from its air, land and sea forces, there are just 14 hospitals that are partially functional — and face critical shortages — out of the Palestinian territory’s original 36 hospitals before the conflict started.

Israel’s internationally-condemned ground invasion of the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has forced another humanitarian medical organisation to abandon the city as “extreme violence” and Israeli military operations escalate.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, had to close a primary care centre in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah on Thursday, the OCHA report states.

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