Israeli strikes have killed at least another 51 people in Gaza as the official death toll nears 46,000, though that is believed to be a vast undercount. Earlier this morning, a 15-day-old baby was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. At least five displaced Palestinian children were also killed in Israeli strikes on tents in al-Mawasi, which had been designated a “safe zone” by Israel. Families in Gaza are building grave-like pits below their tents to protect children from the relentless strikes. This is Tayseer Obaid, whose family is sheltering in Deir al-Balah after they were displaced nine times by Israel’s forced evacuation orders. 

Tayseer Obaid: “The tent, given that it has a pit with high walls surrounding it, protects my children from random strikes. … My children, how were they in the past, and how are they in the present? They were dignified. We, thank God, were in our homes and lands, with our dignity, let’s say. Currently, we live underground, as if in a grave. Surely, this is not easy.”