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WHO chief: Kamal Adwan Hospital attacked four times today

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation says on X says that the intensive care unit, the reception and administration areas and the roof were hit by attacks.

“[Twenty] health staff and 13 patients remain inside but efforts are underway to evacuate them”, Tedros said, adding that an increase in Israeli in north Gaza, where the hospital is located, has led to an influx of injured patients at the “already overstretched facility”.

“Kamal Adwan is the largest partially functional hospital in northern Gaza, and the only one providing hemodialysis services. Evacuation of health workers and patients would make the hospital non-functional, further depleting health services in Northern Gaza,” Tedros said.

Israeli security forces tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid convoys: Report

Israeli soldiers and police are tipping off settlers and hardline activists to the location of aid trucks delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged coastal enclave, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, UK newspaper The Guardian reports, citing multiple sources.

The claim of collusion by members of the security forces is supported by messages from internal internet chat groups reviewed by the Guardian, as well as accounts from several witnesses and human rights activists.

Videos last week showed aid convoys blocked and vandalised by Israeli settlers at the Tarqumiyah checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The incident, in which activists threw boxes of supplies to the ground, sparked outrage, with the White House condemning the attack as “completely and utterly unacceptable behaviour”.

UN condemns ‘senseless bloodshed’ in Jenin raid

The UN’s human rights office in Palestine says on X that is “horrified by deadly Israeli Forces operation in Jenin”. At least seven Palestinians were killed during the raid, which began Tuesday morning local time, including two children, a teacher and a doctor.

“This senseless bloodshed must stop, & those responsible must be held to account,” the office said.