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SvennoJ on 28 January 2024
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Heavy fighting continues for seventh day in the vicinity of hospitals in Khan Younis

Heavy fighting in the vicinity of the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals in Khan Younis in Gaza has continued into a seventh day Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Palestinian Ministry of Health both said. The IDF again said it was carrying out "precise operations" against Hamas in the southern city, saying its intelligence indicates members of Hamas are operating inside and around the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said hospital facilities have over the past week been "under siege" after the Israeli military intensified its operations in Khan Younis. Oxygen supplies at Al Amal hospital have been depleted and that medical teams are unable to perform surgeries as a result, PRCS warned Sunday. It said it is coordinating with the International Committee of the Red Cross "to explore the possibility of providing a safe passage" so oxygen cylinders can be brought to the hospital.

Director of Nasser Hospital morgue appeals for end to Israel’s war on Gaza

A video footage has shown staff and residents at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis digging a new mass grave to bury 14 people who were for days inside the hospital’s mortuary refrigerator. The director of the morgue at Nasser Medical Hospital said the burials were taking place without the presence of their families due to their displacement.

He appealed for an end to the war and the siege on the hospital, saying: “It is not reasonable to bury martyrs in the sand, you must stand with the Palestinian people, we do not have electricity, water, food or shrouds, life has become non-existent in Nasser Medical Hospital.”

“We are trapped inside the hospital on all four sides,” he added.

This is the second mass grave to be dug inside Nasser Hospital due to the siege of the hospital by Israeli vehicles and the inability of citizens to reach the cemeteries in the city.

Health ministry in Gaza says medical waste accumulation at Nasser Hospital

The ministry says medical and non-medical waste is piling up everywhere inside the medical centre in Khan Younis, which has been besieged by Israeli forces. Medical waste, which could be toxic, may contribute to the spread of the diseases amid already deteriorating public health conditions in southern Gaza.

Fleeing Palestinians attacked trying to escape Khan Younis ‘horror’

The entire city of Khan Younis continues to be pounded by Israeli bombardment.

Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate and are going through security checkpoints with facial recognition technology. Women and children are separated from the men. A large number of people have been detained and dehumanised during the process.

Video shows as people tried to flee the horror on different routes away from the bombing they were targeted by tank and artillery shells and small-arms fire, and also Israeli attack drones that hovered low over the city. There are reports of many people killed. Intense fighting is now taking place in the southeastern part of Khan Younis at the edges of Rafah city.

Scenes of forcibly displaced ‘disgrace to humanity’: Palestine

The Palestinian foreign ministry is directing attention toward the plight of some 1.9 million displaced Palestinians in Gaza as the main UN agency delivering humanitarian aid loses its financial backing.

“Scenes of forcibly displaced people are a disgrace to humanity,” it said in a statement. “Over half a million Palestinians in Khan Younis were instructed by the occupying forces to evacuate their homes, including hospitals and health centres, in a cruel expansion and deepening of forced displacement from southern regions.”

Frigid, wet weather intensifies suffering of Gaza’s war displaced

The UN warned that the rain and winter cold in Gaza is “making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people”. “Most have no warm clothes or blankets,” UN official Ajith Sunghay said.

In al-Mawasi- a narrow coastal strip once designated as “a safe zone” but struck by Israeli attacks in recent days – displaced Palestinians tiptoed on sandaled feet through garbage-lined puddles in damp and chilly weather. Walls of sheets and tarps billowed in the wind. A mother wept after rain leaked in and soaked the blankets. “This is our life. We have nothing and we left [our homes] with nothing,” said Bassam Bolbol, whose family ended up in al-Mawasi after leaving Khan Younis and finding no shelter in Rafah.

165 Palestinians killed in last day in Gaza as bloodbath continues

At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 290 others wounded over the last 24 hours. “The Israeli occupation committed 19 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 165 martyrs and 290 injured,” Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement. “Many people are still trapped under rubble as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

The latest killings bring the total death toll to 26,422 since October 7 with more than 65,000 people wounded.

UNICEF: West Bank children living in ‘constant fear and grief’

The UN’s agency for children says kids in the occupied West Bank are living in “constant fear and grief” as the Israeli army continues to assault the area during its war on Gaza. “The streets used to be good and paved, but they were destroyed when the army arrived,” said 11-year-old Hussam.



Last edited by SvennoJ - on 28 January 2024