At least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, with two more deaths reported in Gaza City in the north and one in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave, according to our team on the ground.

Israeli warplanes are also bombing the eastern areas of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum in Deir el-Balah.

At least 39,175 people have been killed and 90,403 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

Georgios Petropoulos, the head of the Gaza operation for the UN humanitarian affairs office, says the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian enclave has steadily deteriorated as the war drags on.

He told Al Jazeera that many roads have been destroyed, making it difficult for people to walk and for trucks or even donkey carts to transport supplies.

“We’re at the point where logistics specialists have gone from talking about fuel and trucks to talking about fodder and donkeys. We’re regressing decades back [in terms of] the systems that we have to use to support the people in Gaza,” he said.

Petropoulos added that the UN knows “how to aid people who are in a tragic war. We must be allowed to do so.”

“We have to have an effective supply of aid, effective supply of aid workers. We have to have a health system that works. We have to have communications, and we have to have absolute protection of civilians on all sides of this conflict.”

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