Palestine Red Crescent says volunteer killed at Al-Amal Hospital
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said one of its emergency operations volunteers has been killed by Israeli army gunfire at the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. The volunteer Ameer Sobhi Abu Aysha was working at the hospital when he was killed, the PRCS added in a post on social media.
PRCS officials say Israeli troops have surrounded the facility and workers are in severe danger.
Six killed in Rafah as ‘violent’ explosions rock Khan Younis
The Wafa news agency is reporting that medics in the southern city have recovered six bodies from the rubble of the house destroyed in the Israeli attack.
A residential home was targeted overnight, killing at least six people, including three children, from the same family. The remaining family members are critically injured and all were rushed to al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah. People are still being removed from under the rubble.
The attack not only caused destruction of this residential home, but it damaged its vicinity, forcing more people into internal displacement.
The agency also reported “violent air and ground bombardment” in the nearby city of Khan Younis, with Israeli forces firing from helicopters and carrying out a ground incursion near the Nasser medical complex. Separately, Wafa said the death toll from the earlier attack on Deir el-Balah has risen to eight.
Israeli soldier killed in northern Gaza Strip
A 21-year-old Israeli soldier has been killed in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said in a statement. Earlier, we reported that the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said it had hit three tanks near the al-Shifa Hospital Complex in Gaza City, “killing and wounding a number of occupation soldiers”.
Israel forces raped, killed women during raid on al-Shifa, witness says
A Palestinian woman who was trapped in a building near al-Shifa Hospital has told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces raped, kidnapped and killed women during their ongoing raid on Gaza’s largest hospital.
Jamila al-Hissi, who spent six days inside the besieged building before being forced out by Israeli forces, told Al Jazeera Arabic that al-Shifa was a “war zone”.
“They raped women, kidnapped women, executed women, and pulled dead bodies from under the rubble to unleash their dogs on them,” she said. “Is there anything worse than this? Is there anything more horrifying than hearing women call for help, and when we try to reach them to provide assistance, they shoot at us?”
Israeli forces moving towards Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
The Israeli military pushed deeper into the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis overnight under heavy coverage of fighter jets, military choppers and attack drones, adds our correspondent Hani Mahmoud from Gaza. Israeli forces completely destroyed or severely damaged the remaining residential buildings in the area on the way.
They are currently stationed about half a kilometre from the hospital’s main gates. “We can literally hear from Rafah the shelling of the vicinity of the medical complex. The Israeli army has not stated the purpose of this operation around the Nasser Hospital yet,” said Mahmoud.
He added that there have been more air strikes and artillery shelling in northern Gaza and the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Israeli army continues to operate in and around al-Shifa Hospital on the seventh day in a row.
Israeli forces target al-Amal Hospital with smoke bombs, bulldozers: PRCS
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said the medical complex in the city of Khan Younis is under heavy Israeli attack.
One of the displaced people sheltering in the hospital has been injured in the head, a post on X by the PRCS said, adding that smoke bombs were fired at the hospital to force the staff, wounded and displaced people out of the building.
PRCS added that Israeli troops closed the gates of the hospital with barriers and that everyone in the hospital was told to leave naked.
🚨Urgent: One of the displaced individuals in the #AlAmalHospital were injured in the head.
⭕️Israeli drones are demanding that all those present in the hospital leave it naked.
💢Smoke bombs are being launched at the hospital to force the staff, wounded, and displaced…
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) March 24, 2024
Gaza death toll increases
The number of people killed in Israel’s war on Gaza has increased to 32,226, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. At least 74,518 people have been wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7. The latest figures include 84 people who died and 106 who were wounded over the past 24 hours.
