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SvennoJ on 25 March 2024
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Footage emerges of Israeli soldiers assaulting Palestinian boy

A video authenticated by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit shows Israeli soldiers assaulting a Palestinian boy in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The security camera footage, filmed two weeks ago, shows an Israeli soldier approaching the young boy in a shop, forcing him to remove his shirt and slapping him in the face in the city’s Jaber neighbourhood.

The Israeli soldiers then speak to the shop owner and tear up the boy’s shirt, before leaving.



Israeli military behaves like the mafia, although that would be insulting to mobsters.


Dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli air attacks in Gaza: Report

The Wafa news agency reports that dozens of Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli air attacks on Gaza over the past 24 hours. They include:

  • At least 18 Palestinians killed in the bombing of a home on al-Beeah Street in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
  • More than 27 Palestinians, including women and children, killed by Israeli bombs targeting five homes in Rafah in southern Gaza.

In addition, Wafa reports that Israeli air attacks in the immediate vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City have killed an unspecified number of people, while Israeli forces continue to demand via loudspeakers that Palestinians immediately evacuate the medical complex in northern Gaza.


Tanks crushed bodies, ambulances at al-Shifa Hospital: Report

Palestinians who fled the ongoing Israeli siege of al-Shifa Hospital have described what happened as Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers surrounded the hospital.

Jameel al-Ayoubi, who was one of thousands of Palestinians sheltering at the hospital, saw Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers drive over at least four bodies in the hospital courtyard, The Associated Press news agency reports. Ambulances were also crushed, he says.

Kareem Ayman Hathat, who lived in a five-storey building about 100 metres (328 feet) from the hospital, told AP he hid in his kitchen for days waiting as explosions shook the building.

“From time to time, the tank would fire a shell,” he said. “It was to terrorise us.”

Witnesses shared with Al Jazeera terrifying scenes at the besieged hospital, including Israeli soldiers executing a group of eight people.

 

Doctor says conditions inside European Gaza Hospital ‘unimaginable’

Konstantina Ilia Karydi, an anaesthetist at the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis, has described the situation inside the medical facility in southern Gaza as “unimaginable”. “This hospital had an original capacity of just 200 beds. Now, it has expanded to 1,000 beds,” she said.

“There are around 22,000 displaced people sheltering in the corridors and in tents inside the hospital because people feel that it’s safer to be here than anywhere else.”

Karydi is a member of an Emergency Medical Team (EMT) working with Medical Aid for Palestinians, the International Rescue Committee and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. In a press release, the groups said their staff have witnessed “horrific scenes” at the hospital – one of Gaza’s last functioning medical facilities – with patients “dying from infections with evidence of serious malnutrition”.

Medical staff ‘managing with the bare minimum’ at Gaza hospital

Husam Basheer, an orthopaedic surgeon working at the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis, says he and his staff are “managing with the bare minimum of resources” at the medical facility due to Israeli restrictions on medical aid entering the besieged enclave.

“One day we wanted to do a plate and screw, which is a standard procedure for bone fixation, but we didn’t have the right equipment. Sometimes we’ve also lacked gauze which is a basic supply for surgery. We worked around the challenges we faced and managed in a different way, but the staff here are overwhelmed,” he said.

 

The aftermath of Israeli strikes in Rafah




At least 30 people killed in Rafah in last 24 hours

Palestinian medics say at least 30 people have been killed in Rafah by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours.

“Every bombing that takes place in Rafah, we fear the tanks will come in. The past 24 hours were one of the worst days since we moved into Rafah,” said Abu Khaled, a father of seven.

“In Rafah, we live in fear, we are hungry, we are homeless and our future is unknown. With no ceasefire in sight, we might end up dead or displaced somewhere else, maybe north and maybe south [to Egypt],” he was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.

 

Red Crescent says medical staff forced out of al-Amal Hospital

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says the Israeli military forced the staff and patients at al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis to evacuate the building last night.

“While attempting to leave through the military checkpoint, the teams encountered difficulty moving due to extensive excavation and infrastructure destruction,” PRCS said on X.

“During the attempt to clear the rubble and obstacles on the road, the occupation forces opened fire towards two of the teams trying to remove the rubble, directly injuring them.”

The PRCS added that Israeli troops “forced the teams to return to” the hospital later. However, “they found the hospital gate closed, making it impossible for the teams to re-enter,” it added. “The teams remained waiting on the street until now,” the NGO said.

The Israeli military announced yesterday a new offensive in the al-Amal neighbourhood.



Gaza death toll increases to 32,333

The number of people killed in Israel’s war on Gaza has increased to 32,333, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave. At least 74,694 people have also been wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7.

The latest figures include 107 people killed and 176 wounded over the past 24 hours.