Gaza City, (Al Jazeera. OCHA, Wafa): Between the afternoon of 26 February and 10:30 on 27 February, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 96 Palestinians were killed, and 172 Palestinians were injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombings in Gaza. Between 7 October 2023 and 10:30 on 27 February 2024, at least 29,878 Palestinians, including 12,300 children, were killed in Gaza and 70,215 Palestinians, including 8,663 children, were injured, according to MoH in Gaza. 8,500 Palestinians are missing.

On 27 February, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) said that humanitarian partners have been unable to reach northern Gaza and increasingly parts of southern Gaza safely, as aid convoys have come under fire and are systematically denied access to people in need.

Allegations of shooting by Israeli forces at Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza city continue to be reported, raising concerns about the protection of civilians.

HelpAge reports that the approximately 111,500 older people in Gaza are among those most at risk of hunger, dehydration, illness, injury, and death.

Intense Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of civilian infrastructure.

Allegations of shooting by Israeli forces at Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza city continue to be reported. On 25 February, at least 10

Palestinians were allegedly killed in two incidents of shelling and shooting at people who were gathering near the An Naboulsi roundabout, in expectation of an aid delivery.

o On 25 February, at about 13:00, seven Palestinians were reportedly killed and 62 others were injured when several houses in Az Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza city were hit.

o On 25 February, at about 16:00, people were reportedly killed and injured when the gate of the Ash Sheikh Redwan Clinic in northern Gaza city was hit.

o On 25 February, at around 21:00, about 20 Palestinian bodies were reportedly retrieved from different areas in Khan Younis, including five bodies near Nasser Medical Complex.

o On 25 February, at about 22:30, four Palestinians were reportedly killed, including a woman and a child, and others were injured when a house in An Naser area in Rafah was hit.

o On 26 February, at about 9:00, four Palestinians were reportedly killed, and three others were injured, when a civilian car and a nearby group of Palestinians were hit in Abu Al Ajin area, in eastern Deir al Balah.

o On 26 February, at about 10:15, two Palestinian fishers were reportedly killed when the coast off Khan Younis was struck by naval fire.

On 25 February, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and a United Nations team evacuated 24 patients from Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis. The hospital was subject to a prolonged siege and raids by the Israeli military until 22 February, which resulted in at least 25 fatalities, and rendered it ‘minimally functioning’ according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite prior coordination with the Israeli authorities for the staff members and vehicles, Israeli forces blocked the convoy, forced patients and staff from ambulances and stripped the paramedics of their clothes.

Three of the PRCS paramedics were subsequently detained, delaying the convoy for over seven hours. Two of the paramedics remain in detention. On 26 February, the PRCS announced the suspension of all humanitarian coordination procedures on medical missions in Gaza for 48 hours, due to “failure to ensure the safety and security of the Society’s Emergency Medical Services teams, the wounded and the sick in PRCS hospitals, centres and ambulances.”

On 27 February, regarding the medical evacuation, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in Palestine stated that this was not an isolated case, as aid convoys have come under fire and are systematically denied access to people in need.

Furthermore, humanitarian workers have been harassed, intimidated or detained by Israeli forces, and humanitarian infrastructure has been hit, the statement said, indicating that the requirements for the meaningful facilitation of relief efforts have been consistently communicated to the Israeli authorities.

As a result of inadequate facilitation of relief operations, humanitarian partners are unable to reach northern Gaza and increasingly parts of southern Gaza safely. The HCT pledged to continue to engage with Israeli forces so that the critically needed humanitarian response is enabled.

Ambulance crews have recovered the bodies of nine people from various areas of Khan Younis since this morning.

A girl was among those who died after being wounded in Israeli army gunfire west of Khan Younis in Gaza’s south.

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced that a 9-year-old girl was killed after being hit with a bullet to the head in Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Yunis.

Israeli aircraft, artillery, and navy boats launched a series of raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip, mainly in Gaza City and Rafah Governorate, while Khan Yunis saw clashes and intense shooting with heavy machine guns.

Israeli navy targeted with artillery shelling the coastal areas of the southern Gaza Strip, while Al-Daraj, Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra neighborhoods in Gaza City saw a series of Israeli raids that killed and injured many Palestinians, including children and women.

The Israeli artillery also bombed Tel al-Hawa and Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that a number of Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces targeted a house in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

The sources added that the number of slain Palestinians rose to 9 as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house owned by Al-Zatma family near the Kuwaiti Hospital in downtown Rafah.

Four Palestinians killed, and dozens were injured, by Israeli bullets and tank shells, yesterday evening, west of Gaza City.

A number of Palestinians were also killed and others were injured by an Israeli bombing from a drone in the middle of the new camp, west of Nuseirat.

Civil defense crews and Palestinian civilians recovered the bodies of 5 civilians from under the rubble of a house in Al-Qarara after it was bombed by the occupation army. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

According to Israeli government 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas on 7 October in southern Israel and 134 Israelis and foreign nationals are still detained by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Palestinian girl cries after Israeli airstrike hit their residential building in Rafah, South Gaza Strip on 26 2 24. Photojournalist: Abed Zagou/ AA]