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On the 18th, the streets of Gaza were devastated, people screamed in fear and shed tears, on this day, they lost their loved ones again. On this day, the Israeli army continued to launch military operations in the Gaza Strip, and many places in the Gaza Strip were bombed by the Israeli army.

On the same day, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched attacks on Israeli military targets.

The mother and her six children were killed in the explosion.

On the 18th, many places in the Gaza Strip were bombed by the Israeli army. On the same day, a residential building in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip was hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Civil defense officer Faris said the airstrike caused casualties, most of whom were women and children. The Israeli army is still committing genocide against the Palestinians, and the massacre and revenge against the Palestinian people are still continuing.

On the same day, a house in the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah was bombed by the Israeli army. According to the hospital, the bombing killed a mother and her six children.

Khattab, the grandfather of the six children, said sadly: "A whole family! The mother and her six children, the oldest is 15 years old and the youngest is one and a half years old. What did they do wrong?"

In addition, the Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and other places were also attacked by the Israeli army. Reuters released a video on the 18th, showing that a residential building in the Nusayrat refugee camp was hit by an Israeli airstrike and the surrounding buildings were affected by the shock wave of the explosion.

The IDF issued a statement on the 18th saying that the 98th Division of the IDF had expanded its operations in the Gaza Strip and shelled the infrastructure of Palestinian armed groups. At the same time, after killing dozens of Palestinian militants and destroying a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, the IDF expanded its activities to the suburbs of Deir al-Balah. In addition, the IDF paratroopers expanded their activities to the western part of Khan Yunis, etc.

On the same day, the Qassam Brigades, an armed faction affiliated with Hamas, released a video showing militants attacking Israeli military vehicles.

Gaza residents: There is no "humanitarian zone"

On the 17th, Hamas issued a statement saying that the Israeli army continued to attack the central Gaza Strip, where a large number of displaced people gathered, resulting in the death of 16 members of a family, including several children. The Israeli army said that the action was aimed at military targets in the area and the incident was yet to be evaluated.

Hamas said in a statement that the Israeli army was still issuing orders for people to evacuate from the central Gaza Strip, and called on the international community to work hard to stop the brutal crimes against civilians.

According to the Palestinian News Agency on the 17th, Israeli fighter jets bombed a shed and a house in the Zaweda area in central Gaza Strip that day, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens.

Exhausted by the repeated exodus, Gazans say they have nowhere to go because there are no safe areas in Gaza.

"I don't know where to go. I am sitting here now and I don't know where to go because there is nowhere to go. Everything is so crowded, there is nowhere to go, so we are sitting here. We haven't taken out our belongings yet, the place we were living in collapsed, and all our belongings are buried under the rubble," said Umm, a displaced person.

When the Israeli army issues an "evacuation order", it usually claims that several areas will soon become "war zones" and asks local people to go to "humanitarian zones". However, the local displaced persons deny this statement made by the Israeli army.

Mohammed, a displaced person, said: "This is my fifth or sixth time being displaced. I am now in Hamad. The whole city has been evacuated. Two towers have been blown up. Now there is news that we have to evacuate Hamad. We don't know where to go. They say Mawasi is safe now, but I know that when the Israeli army arrives, there will be no safe areas in Gaza, and there will be no so-called 'humanitarian zone' at all."

Fuel shortage, staff shortage, many medical institutions in Gaza stopped operating

On the 18th, Hames, director of Kuwait Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza, said that due to the lack of fuel and medicine, as well as insufficient number of doctors, the hospital was unable to perform surgery on patients. He said that the local health system was collapsing and could not provide services to patients in need of treatment. At the same time, the number of people injured by bombs in the area was increasing.

Hussam, director of Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, said on the 18th that the hospital will have to stop operations in the next 24 hours due to shortages of fuel and medical supplies.

On the same day, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said that due to the shortage of fuel necessary for ambulances, emergency medical clinics and relief services, the organization may stop its services in Gaza City and parts of northern Gaza. The organization said that this situation seriously hindered its ability to provide services and aggravated the health crisis in many areas of Gaza. The depletion of fuel will cause the generators of several clinics and medical points to shut down. A large number of medicines will deteriorate, medical equipment will be unusable, and clinics will be completely unable to provide services to the public.

War affects vaccination, Gaza sees first polio case in 25 years

Gaza Strip health authorities said last week that a 10-month-old baby who had not been vaccinated against polio was diagnosed with the virus, the first case of the disease in the Gaza Strip in nearly 25 years.

According to the Associated Press report on the 17th, in addition to a confirmed case of polio, there are several suspected cases in the Gaza Strip, and in July, polio virus was detected in sewage in 6 different places. The risk of a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip is increasing rapidly.

"It is very sad to see my children in this situation. We are living like a primitive life," said Sana, a displaced person. "All children should be vaccinated. It is sad that children have to suffer like this. You can go to any health facility and see people suffering from fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. It is unbearable. I am worried that if my son gets sick, he will not be treated. Why have we come to this point and live in such misery?"

In an interview with reporters on the 16th, UN Secretary-General Guterres said that polio virus was found in sewage in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah, which means that polio has spread in the Gaza Strip. He called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip so that more than 640,000 children under the age of 10 can be vaccinated with type 2 polio vaccine. "Preventing and curbing the spread of polio requires large-scale, coordinated and urgent cooperation," he said.

According to UN data, wild polio virus was eradicated in the Gaza Strip 25 years ago thanks to comprehensive vaccination. But in the first quarter of this year, the routine polio immunization coverage in the Gaza Strip fell to less than 90% from 99% in 2022.

Poliomyelitis is an acute infectious disease caused by the polio virus, which is often transmitted to unimmunized people, especially children under 5 years old, through sewage. Patients may experience fever, headache, muscle pain, vomiting and other symptoms. In severe cases, they may become paralyzed or die. There is no cure for this disease, and vaccination is the most cost-effective prevention method.

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Israel: Cease-fire agreement 'unlikely'

A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations was held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, a few days ago. Representatives from Israel, Qatar, the United States and Egypt attended the meeting, while Hamas was absent.

Qatar, the United States and Egypt said after the meeting that the negotiations were "constructive" and that the United States had put forward a transitional proposal to Hamas and Israel. Egyptian sources said that the parties planned to hold talks again in Cairo, Egypt, on the 21st of this month to finalize the "final agreement". However, the Palestinian and Israeli sides had different reactions to the Doha talks that just ended, and their positions were still divided.

On the 18th, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said that a series of leaks had affected the progress of the agreement reached with Hamas on the release of detained persons and the ceasefire in Gaza. In addition, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office stated that Prime Minister Netanyahu will continue to insist on keeping the IDF in the "Philadelphia Corridor".

"The Prime Minister will continue to work hard to push for an agreement that maximizes the number of detainees alive and achieves all war objectives," the Prime Minister's Office stressed.

In addition, Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that day that he was pessimistic about the possibility of reaching an agreement, saying it was "unlikely." He pointed out at the meeting that Israel has been conducting effective negotiations with the mediators in recent days, rather than with Hamas.

Earlier in the day, media reported that Israel intends to temporarily give up control of the "Philadelphia Corridor" in exchange for the safe return of the detained persons.

The "Philadelphia Corridor" refers to a 14-kilometer-long strip of land at the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. According to the peace agreement signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979, this strip of land was designated as a buffer zone controlled and patrolled by the Israeli army. In 2007, Hamas gained control of the Gaza Strip and then the "Philadelphia Corridor". On May 29 this year, the Israeli army claimed that it had achieved "full operational control" of the "Philadelphia Corridor".

Hamas: The so-called ceasefire agreement is an order imposed by the United States

Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior member of Hamas, said in a statement on the 17th that Biden's statement that a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip was "close to being reached" was an "illusion."

Zuhri said that Hamas is not facing an agreement or real negotiations, but an order imposed by the United States. Zuhri said that the Israeli occupation continues to hinder all efforts to complete any ceasefire agreement, and the United States is trying to prevent any actions against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Israel has added new conditions to the negotiations, and the latest transitional proposal put forward by the United States fully adopts Israel's position.

The New Arab newspaper quoted Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha as saying on the 17th that the results of the new round of ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip that Hamas learned of did not meet the commitments made by the mediators in a ceasefire agreement agreed to by Hamas in early July this year. Taha accused Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of not wanting to reach an agreement, but only using negotiations to delay time and continue to extend military operations in the Gaza Strip.

On the 18th, Hamas said that after listening to the mediator's statement on the progress of the negotiations, Hamas believed that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was still hindering the reaching of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

Hamas said the new proposal responded to and was consistent with Netanyahu's conditions, especially his rejection of a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza, and his insistence on continuing to occupy the Netzarim corridor, Rafah crossing and Philadelphia corridor in the Gaza Strip. The statement pointed out that Netanyahu set new conditions for the exchange of documents for detained persons, which hindered the completion of the exchange agreement.

Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Liang Tingting compiled CCTV and Xinhua News Agency