At least three people dead, dozens wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza City
The Wafa news agency reports that “dozens” of casualties have resulted from Israel’s targeting of a group of Palestinians at the intersection of al-Jalaa Street and al-Oyoun Street in the centre of Gaza City, which we reported on earlier.
At least three bodies arrived at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City as well as a number of critical cases, Wafa reports.
The number of dead from this attack, which targeted a gathering point for internet access, is expected to rise, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
Number of dead expected to increase in al-Jalaa street attack
In the past 45 minutes, a drone seems to have fired a missile at a group of people at Jalaa Street, one of the major streets in the centre of Gaza City – very popular and thriving before the war.
There was a group of people who was gathering at a place to get an internet connection. The vast majority of people here have family in the southern part and the centre, and trying to get hold of them.
This is not the first time we see this pattern of attacks on civilians gathering in large groups, either at a food distribution or internet connection points, or even at a solar-powered point to charge their phones or computers.
It has happened repeatedly in the past month; it happened in Sheikh Ridwan, where at least 12 people were killed as they were trying to get an internet connection.
So far, what we have learned from civil defence crew members, three [bodies of dead people] were transferred to al-Ahli Arab Hospital. A few more are in critical condition and we are expecting the number of dead to increase.
Israeli army orders more evacuations in northern Gaza
Israel’s military ordered the immediate evacuation of the al-Manshiya and Sheikh Zayyed neighbourhoods in northern Gaza because, it claims, Palestinian fighters are firing rockets from there into Israeli territory.
Army spokesman for Arab media Avichay Adraee said it will “act forcefully against them. For your safety, you must evacuate the area immediately to known shelters west of Gaza City.”
‘I saw my mother in torn pieces’: Witness to Israeli attack on UNRWA clinic
Earlier, we reported that Israeli shelling targeted a UNRWA clinic in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, killing at least 10 displaced Palestinians.
Witnesses to that attack spoke to Al Jazeera, recounting the horrors of their experience.
Samir Shaaban, who lost his parents in the attack, said, “I tried to keep in touch with them. My mother used to tell me, ‘Don’t come to us, son. We have everything we need, just stay safe’ … I woke up to the news of the bombing, so I rushed to the clinic to find my mother in pieces and my father lying next to her. May God have mercy on their souls”.
Mohammed al-Qayed, a survivor of the bombing, said, “We were sleeping, and there was no resistance here as they claim. Suddenly, we saw a red light from the rocket falling on us”.
Al-Qayad pointed to the areas where people died, noting that there were children among the dead, and said, “If we were upstairs, we would be among the martyrs, as well”.
Video shows Israeli attack on Rafah house
Palestinian journalist Alamuddin Sadiq has posted video to his Instagram account showing an Israeli army bomb hitting a home in Rafah, where Israel has begun a ground offensive and has been ramping up air attacks.
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