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SvennoJ on 28 May 2024
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Hundreds of Palestinians at risk of dying as Al-Aqsa Hospital runs out of fuel

Some 200 trucks, including four fuel trucks, are supposed to have entered the Gaza Strip [on Sunday]. But till this point, nothing has entered the Gaza Strip. We’ve been trying all day to follow up to see what happened to these trucks, and there’s no confirmed reports that they made it inside.

In the meantime, we’ve just spoken to the health officials here at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah and they said they have not received any fuel so far, and that they are going to witness a very catastrophic situation if this continues. They have to receive fuel as soon as possible.

I’m at the entrance of the hospital and many patients are receiving their treatment outside, because the weather is so hot and the hospital is overwhelmed with patients. People here say it’s suffocating inside the hospital.

A lot of Palestinians rely on this hospital. If the hospital does not receive any fuel in the next 24 hours, hundreds of patients are going to be at risk of death.

Seven Palestinians killed as Israel continues attacks on Rafah

We’ve been following an Israeli attack on a house in the al-Hashashin area in Rafah. Local sources are reporting that at least seven people were killed and six more wounded in that bombing.

A Palestinian man who witnessed the attack told Al Jazeera: “It is a safe zone that is crawling with tents and displaced people. Suddenly, a missile fell on the residence, which was built using some blocks and metal tubing. We saw people out in the street, displaced people and citizens. There were no combatants or anything. It was a safe zone!”

The latest attack comes just 24 hours after the widely condemned Israeli assault that killed at least 45 Palestinians at a tent camp for displaced people in Rafah.


Another hospital hit as Israel continues to pound Rafah

More on Israel’s ongoing attacks on the Tal as-Sultan area in western Rafah.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the Indonesian Field Hospital in the area has been hit as Israel continues to pound western Rafah. The attack caused damage to the hospital’s upper floors.

AJA correspondents also say medical staff and patients are trapped inside the facility as well as in the Tal as-Sultan clinic because of the intense attacks. Many Palestinian families have also taken shelter there.

Ambulances are also facing difficulties reaching the wounded due to the bombings.

The Indonesian Field Hospital is the latest medical facility in Rafah to come under attack. Earlier, we reported that the Kuwait Speciality Hospital has been forced to shut down after an Israeli attack just outside the building’s gate killed two medical staff and wounded many more.

Tal as-Sultan is the same area in Rafah where a tent camp for displaced Palestinians was attacked by Israel, leaving 45 dead, many of them women and children.


Seven killed in new Israeli attacks on tents in Rafah

More on Israel’s onslaught on Tal as-Sultan, west of Rafah.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least seven Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces shelled tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the area. AJA also said that Israeli attacks caused a fire at an apartment building in the neighbourhood.

Earlier, we reported that an Israeli air raid on the al-Hashashin area, north of Rafah, killed another seven people.

No red lines, US and Europe only keep stalling.

More on Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip

  • Air raids on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, which killed at least two people
  • Artillery shelling in central Gaza, including the city of Deir el-Balah, and areas east of Bureij refugee camp, north of the Nuseirat camp and east of the Maghazi camp
  • Bombing of a home in the Daraj neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, which killed at least two people
  • Artillery shelling in the al-Mughraqa and az-Zahra neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Gaza City.

Three Hamas battalions defending Jabalia refugee camp: War monitors

Three Hamas battalions are fighting to defend the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza and not just one battalion that Israel’s military planners had believed was operating in the area, war monitors report.

US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said Israeli forces now realise that three battalions are participating in the defence of Jabalia some two weeks into Israel’s current “re-clearing” operation in the north of Gaza, which began in mid-May.

Members of Israel’s war cabinet had previously declared “repeatedly” that all of Hamas’s 12 battalions in Gaza City and the north of the territory had been “dismantled”, the latest ISW/CTP joint battlefield report notes.

That Israel’s military now needs to “re-dismantle” Hamas battalions that have reconstituted their forces in Jabalia underscores the lack of a thought-out “sustainable political and military end state in the Gaza Strip”, the war monitors add.

Israel’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi has previously described such re-clearing operations as a “Sisyphean task”, the ISW/CTP add.

Palestinians killed, wounded near Jabalia in northern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting strikes in the al-Faluja area, west of Jabalia camp, that have killed and wounded Palestinians. Al-Faluja has been repeatedly targeted in recent weeks as Israeli forces intensify ground and air attacks on the nearby Jabalia camp.

Israeli tanks reach Rafah city centre: Report

Israeli tanks have reached the Rafah city centre, Reuters news agency reports, quoting witnesses on the ground. The Israeli army has been carrying out a large operation in the southern Gaza city despite international warnings and an ICJ ruling for it to stop the offensive.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced as a result of the operation.


Three people killed in western Rafah

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says its rescue workers have found the bodies of three people killed in western Rafah and have transported several injured people for medical treatment.