GAZA: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that 65 per cent of schools housing thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel’s offensive on Gaza have been “directly hit or damaged” in attacks, Al Jazeera reports.

OCHA also reports that an infant girl has died in Rafah, reportedly from extreme heat, as concerns mount over a “sanitation crisis” amid rising temperatures in the Palestinian territory where so many are without adequate shelter or access to food and healthcare.

The latest OCHA situation report on Gaza also notes that between Wednesday and Friday afternoon, a further 94 people were killed and 139 injured in Israeli attacks, according to Health Ministry data.

The deadliest attacks included the bombing of the house of a Palestinian poet and writer, who was killed along with her two children, in the Shati (Beach) refugee camp, located west of Gaza City.

The Israeli military targeted Hamas weapons depots, launch sites, and bases throughout the Strip, while killing numerous fighters, the military said, Al Jazeera reports.

Many of the operations took place in central Gaza, where Israeli air strikes, directed by troops on the ground, targeted a Hamas cell as well as a vehicle carrying eight of the group’s fighters, the Israeli military said.

Israel’s latest air strikes in Gaza also caused civilian casualties, killing 15 people, including women and children, in Nuseirat refugee camp, Khan Younis and Rafah.