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Israel’s military repeatedly attacks besieged northern Gaza hospitals

Palestinian medics say Israeli missiles struck the emergency department of Jabalia’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, prompting panicked staff to rush patients on hospital beds and stretchers to the rubble-strewn street outside.

“The first missile when it hit, it hit the entrance of the emergency department. We tried to enter, and then a second missile hit, and the third hit the building nearby,” said Hussam Abu Safia, the head of the hospital.

“We cannot go back inside to them… The emergency department provides a service for children, the elderly and people inside the departments of the hospital.”

Residents and medics say Israeli tanks are besieging the al-Awda Hospital, also in Jabalia, for the third day.

In Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said northern Gaza’s sick and wounded were running out of options.

Israeli bomb kills 10, including unborn baby, in central Gaza

An Israeli bombing has killed 10 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.

The bomb struck a gathering of displaced people in the Zawaida area of the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Wafa.

Children, women among eight killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City

The Wafa news agency reported that Israeli missiles struck two areas in Gaza City, killing at least eight Palestinians on Tuesday evening.

Citing a medic, the agency said the attack on the city’s Daraj neighbourhood killed four Palestinians, including an infant who was not yet one year old. The second attack on the city’s Tuffah neighbourhood killed four others, including two women and a minor.

Reports of the latest deaths follow the Health Ministry’s announcement that Israeli attacks on Gaza killed 85 people and wounded 200 others in the previous 24 hours.

Fierce clashes ongoing in Rafah

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian armed groups in the southern city of Rafah, near the Halal market.

AJA reporters also said that Israeli jets bombed a house in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah. It was not immediately clear if the attack caused any casualties.

Israeli attacks were also reported in the early hours in central Gaza, in the Zawaida neighbourhood, which killed at least 10 people.


Israeli attack in north Gaza kills six Palestinians

Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that an Israeli attack on a house in the Bir an-Naaja area in north Gaza has killed at least six people and wounded many more.

The attack hit the home of the Abu Zaida family, AJA reporters said.