Gaza City, December 5 (RHC)-- In Gaza, at least five people, including four children, were killed Wednesday in an Israeli drone strike on a food distribution center and a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp. 

Elsewhere, at least two people were killed when Israel bombed residential buildings in Deir al-Balah, where others remain missing under the rubble.  In the Bureij refugee camp, Israeli warplanes struck a U.N.-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians, setting more than a dozen tents ablaze and killing a Palestinian medic. 

Meanwhile, in Beit Lahia, three medical workers were wounded on Tuesday, one of them critically, when Israel bombed the Kamal Adwan Hospital. The hospital’s director reported quadcopter drones were seen dropping bombs packed with shrapnel. 

It was Israel’s fifth attack on the hospital in recent weeks.  In Khan Younis, a massive line formed Tuesday as Palestinians queued for rations of flour at a United nations-run food distribution center.  Many of them described long and fruitless days searching for bread or other staples amid Israel’s stifling blockade.

One local resident, Lina al-Basiouni, told reporters: “This bag of flour we received won’t last a month, not even with careful rationing.  We appeal to the United Nations, UNRWA, UNICEF and all international organizations working to support displaced people or Palestinian refugees to preserve our cause, to help us, to do everything they can and dedicate all their efforts to help the displaced in Gaza, because our situation is so difficult.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]