Israel keeps pounding Gaza for second day

At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight and this morning.

Israeli attacks in Gaza have rendered about 85 percent of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities fully or partially inoperative, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

As a result, Gaza’s water supply has fallen by 65 percent since the start of the war, leaving residents with just three to five litres (0.7 to 1.3 gallons) per person daily, reports the bureau.

This falls far below the World Health Organization’s minimum humanitarian standard for emergencies, set at 15 litres (nearly 4 gallons) per person per day.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has accused UN chief Antonio Guterres of “moral bankruptcy” after he said he was “outraged” by renewed Israeli air strikes in Gaza.

“We are outraged that you [Antonio Guterres] are the Secretary-General of the UN,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein wrote on X.