Israelis cheer as rockets start to rain down along the #Gaza strip. @CNNVideo: http://t.co/q6AeqEMmGG pic.twitter.com/j6PjbzZbLI

— CNN (@CNN) July 17, 2014

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that there are an estimated 57,900 children in Gaza who have experienced death, injury or loss of home over the past ten days and require direct and specialized psychosocial support.

The Palestinian fatality toll since the start of the latest Israeli assault is now 230. According to preliminary information, at least 74 percent (171 people) are civilians, 48 of whom are children and 31 women.

1,764 Palestinians have been injured, of whom 521 are children and 372 women.

22,900 displaced people hosted at UNRWA shelters are in need of emergency food assistance.

This evening, the Gaza health ministry has updated the death toll to 247, with 1910 people injured.

And meanwhile Israelis in Sderot are cheering.

Mondoweiss reports: The Israeli military has destroyed el-Wafa rehabilitation hospital in the Gaza Strip, after first targeting the facility with five missiles on July 11, 2014. The Israeli military began striking the building around 8:oo pm this evening and within two hours all hospital staff and patients had evacuated the only rehabilitation center in the Gaza Strip. As they departed what remained intact from the medical center burned to the ground.

“It’s already destroyed,” said Basman Alashi, director of el-Wafa, continuing, “I don’t know how much is left of it, but we have evacuated all of our patients. We lost power, there was a fire in the building.”

Alashi spoke to me via telephone from his house in Gaza, unable to cross the Israeli shelling to reach the hospital. “I left the hospital at seven and within two hours they had bombed the hospital.” Shells hit every floor of the building, and a fire spread throughout.