An Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia on September 8 killed Deputy Director of the Gaza Civil Emergency Department in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip Mohammad Morsi and four family members.
The Gaza Civil Emergency Directorate said that with the death of Deputy Director Mohammad Morsi in the latest airstrike in Gaza, the number of its members killed by Israeli fire since October 7, 2023 has increased to 83.
Israeli forces also blew up several houses in the Gaza City suburb of Zeitoun, 5 km (3 miles) from Jabalia, Reuters sources said.
Late on September 8, the Gaza Health Ministry said that Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 15 people.
Residents in central and southern Gaza reported disruptions in information, internet and communications services due to the Israeli offensive.
Palestinians said the first internet and communications blackout in months affected the ability to dispatch ambulances to areas hit by the attacks and made it difficult for residents to get information about their loved ones and reports of air strikes.
Also on September 8, the United Nations, in coordination with local health authorities, extended the polio vaccination campaign for children in the southern Gaza Strip for another day before moving to the north on September 9.
The campaign aims to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip after the first polio case in about 25 years was recorded.
UN officials said more than half of the children who needed vaccinations had been reached in the first two phases in the northern and central Gaza Strip. The second phase of vaccinations will be carried out four weeks after the first.
Following Hamas 's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages, Israel launched an attack on Gaza, killing more than 40,900 Palestinians and forcing the evacuation of nearly the entire population of 2.3 million in Gaza.
