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Nasser Hospital doctor sniped while in operating room
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Akram Al Helo reports that the doctor, Dr. Nusseib, sustained a gunshot wound to his chest and is currently in critical condition.
The shooting, which Al Helo says was a deliberate targeting, occurred while the doctor was at work in the operating room at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. “Even doctors are now the target of the occupation forces while carrying out their responsibilities in operating rooms. How much longer will this silence last?” he wrote.
Nasser Hospital has been under a state of siege for over two weeks. Today we reported accounts of medical staff being pinned down by Israeli sniper fire inside the medical complex, as well as an Israeli drone attack there that killed displaced civilians.
Israeli attacks leave 5 dead inside Gaza medical facilities, reports say
An Israeli airstrike targeting a room in the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City killed five people on Thursday, journalist Khader Zaanoun told CNN, who received his information from health officials in the city.
In Khan Younis, a doctor inside the Nasser Medical Complex, Ahmad Al Moghrabi, posted a video on Instagram showing a bleeding colleague who he said had been shot by a sniper while inside the medical facility. “The sniper shot my nurse friend beside me on his chest at the operative theatre. He is seriously injured,” Moghrabi wrote in the caption.
Ashraf Al-Qudra, spokesperson of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, said that there are 300 medical staff, 450 injured people and 10,000 displaced people in the Nasser hospital complex. They are exposed to disease and hunger, as well as health hazards due to the accumulation of medical and non-medical waste as Israeli forces are preventing its removal, he added.
At the nearby Al-Amal hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said there was “intense and continuous gunfire” in the vicinity of the facility Thursday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday it was intensifying fighting in western Khan Younis.
At least 14 killed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, eyewitnesses say
At least 14 people were killed, including 5 children, after Israeli airstrikes targeted several residential buildings in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, an eyewitness and local journalist Tareq Al Hilou told CNN. Airstrikes hit the Tal Al-Sultan and Saudi neighborhoods in the western part of Rafah, Al Hilou said, adding that there was heavy bombardment south of city near the border with Egypt.
In Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, dozens of rockets were launched over residential neighborhoods in the early hours of Thursday, particularly in the eastern part of the city, Al Hilou said.
In central Gaza, in Deir El-Balah, a journalist working for Palestine TV, Nafez Abdul Jawad, was killed after an Israeli missile struck the house he was staying in, eyewitness and journalist Mohammad Al-Sawalhi, who is in central Gaza, told CNN Thursday.
In Gaza City, north of the strip, eyewitness, and journalist Khader Al Zaanoun told CNN that there were several deaths and injuries after Israeli forces “opened fire on civilians in alleys and streets” in the western part of the city, particularly in in University Square, Al Sina’a , Al Matar Intersection, and Al-Saraya. “Victims are still awaiting medical treatment as ambulances are being prevented from reaching them,” Zaanoun said.
CNN reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment on claims Israeli forces opened fire on civilians in Gaza City, and that residential buildings were targeted across the strip.
2 Americans detained by Israeli forces in Gaza, family member says
Two American citizens were detained by the Israel Defense Forces during a raid of a home in Gaza early Thursday morning local time, according to a family member in the United States. Hashem Alagha, 20, and Borak Alagha, 18, were among a group of roughly 20 men detained by IDF soldiers during the raid, according to Yasmeen Elagha, who identified herself as their cousin. She said both men are American citizens, born in the suburbs of Chicago.
Elagha told CNN that she spoke over the phone with Hashem’s mother — her aunt — who was present during the raid and claims IDF broke through the door while the group was sleeping, tied up the women and children inside the home, and took the men into custody. They do not know where the men have been taken at this point. Elagha says the home belongs to her uncle and her family has no ties to Hamas.
CNN has reached out to the IDF for comment. The US is aware of reports that the Israeli military has detained two American citizens in Gaza and is "seeking additional information," State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said at a news briefing. Patel did not share further details.
Blinken cancelled Karem Abu Salem crossing visit amid continued aid protests
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a planned visit to Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing with Gaza after Israeli officials told him they could not guarantee that aid convoys would not be disrupted by Israeli protesters who have been trying to block humanitarian aid from entering the beleaguered Strip for more than a week.
The demonstrators have been demanding an end to the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, where health and assistance officials say that Israel’s campaign has created a humanitarian catastrophe and put hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians at risk of starvation.
Palestinian prisoners group announces death of youth held in administrative detention
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club have stated that 21-year-old Al-Dhahiriya resident Muhammad Ahmad Ratib al-Sabbar has died in an Israeli prison, where he had been held under administrative detention since May 2022. The groups say that the last order extending his detention was issued in November 2023 for a period of four months. Rights groups have long said that Israel’s detention of Palestinians in the occupied territories is rife with abuses.
“Administrative detention is incarceration without trial or charge, alleging that a person plans to commit a future offense,” according to the Israeli rights group B’tselem. “It has no time limit, and the evidence on which it is based is not disclosed. Israel employs this measure extensively and routinely, and has used it to hold thousands of Palestinians for lengthy periods of time.”
Palestinian culture minister says ‘Gaza is no longer Gaza’: Report
Palestinian Culture Minister Atef Abu Seif has said that Palestinians will need “a new Gaza” as Israel’s assault on the strip — one of the most destructive military campaigns in modern history — has left it nearly unrecognisable. “Gaza is no longer Gaza,” Abu Seif said in an interview with the news outlet AFP.
Abu Seif was trapped in Gaza for 90 days, and says that he witnessed terrible suffering and has lost more than 100 relatives. In the interview, he also recounts helping pull bodies out of the rubble after an Israeli attack on a relative’s home. “We were shocked to find that a body which a friend retrieved belonged to his 16-year-old son,” said Abu Seif. “The war in Gaza is ugly.”
