A Palestinian woman holds the body of her grandson Tamer as her surviving grandson mourns his sister (the mother of the baby), in front of the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian woman holds the body of her grandson as her surviving grandson mourns his sister in front of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on November 1, 2024 [Eyad Baba/AFP]

  • UNICEF condemns Israel’s “indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip”, noting that more than 50 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Jabalia in northern Gaza in the past 48 hours alone.
  • Israeli forces also dropped a stun grenade on a polio vaccination centre in Gaza City, wounding at least four children, despite agreeing to a humanitarian pause for a long-delayed inoculation campaign.