Families in Bureij refugee camp caught in line of fire
People are coming to the hospital here from the Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps which have been under attack for the past few hours.
Judging from what we were able to see, just getting close to the ambulances that have been dispatched to pick up the wounded, the kind of injuries we’ve seen are either [people] coming shredded or need surgery for amputation.
Eyewitnesses from the Maghazi and Bureij camps are talking about what looks like a scaling-up in the attacks in what they predict as the beginning of a ground invasion and this bombing campaign is just a preparation providing coverage for the tanks and for the armoured vehicles to move forward.
Four people were already transferred from the emergency department to the morgue; they were pronounced dead right away.
Entire families in Bureij refugee camp are caught in the line of fire right now; they cannot leave the targeted areas due to the presence of attack jets, quadcopters and the constant artillery shelling. Ambulances, paramedics are unable to get to these areas.
It further increases the difficulties of the situation for people who have already moved from Rafah and the western part of Rafah seeking shelter in the central area.
Qassam Brigades say targeted Israeli forces advancing on Bureij
The armed wing of Hamas says it fired a number of mortar shells at Israeli troops advancing east of the refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Death toll rises in central Gaza from Israeli attacks
Israeli attacks on central Gaza’s Bureij and Maghazi camps have now killed at least 11 people, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
Dozens of people wounded in the attacks were rushed to the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, according to footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.
Doctors overwhelmed by casualties pouring in after Israeli attacks
These have been quite difficult hours. Dead and injured people are being brought to the hospital. There is a whole family inside the morgue – a father, a mother and their two children.
The Al-Aqsa Hospital’s floor is full of wounded people. Doctors are running everywhere, searching for remaining medical supplies including antiseptics and anaesthetics to perform urgent operations to save lives. There was one case where, because of a lack of medical supplies, a person who needed immediate medical intervention lost their life.
We can still hear explosions of ongoing attacks and heavy machine-gun fire in the eastern area of central Gaza – including the densely populated Maghazi and Bureij camps.
We’re learning from victims’ relatives there are still entire families trapped inside bombed homes in those camps.
Hamas fighters ambush Israeli troops with blast in Gaza City
The Qassam Brigades says it lured more than a dozen Israeli soldiers into a booby-trapped home and blew it up during battles in northern Gaza City.
“As soon as the force entered the house, it was targeted with a TBG [Thermobaric] rocket and the device detonated,” the armed wing of Hamas said in a statement on Telegram.
When reinforcements arrived in south of the al-Sabra neighbourhood, a Yasin-105 rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a Merkava tank “inflicting a direct hit”.
No casualty figures were given in the statement.
Five killed in Deir el-Balah
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli attack on a home near Deir el-Balah killed five people and injured others. It comes during a surge of strikes on central Gaza where many of the one million Palestinians fleeing the southernmost city of Rafah have sought refuge.
Inundated Al-Aqsa Hospital issues ‘urgent appeal’ for international help
With dozens of wounded people coming in, the hospital in central Deir el-Balah doesn’t have the means to treat the number of victims and desperately needs support from abroad, its spokesperson says.
“This is an urgent appeal to international health organisations across the world to save Gaza’s health system and to stop this genocidal war before it is too late,” Khalil al-Dhaqran told a news briefing.
“We demand the Rafah and Karem Abu Salem crossings be reopened to transfer the sick and injured abroad to ease this health crisis. Medical supplies, field hospitals, fuel and staff must be allowed in to operate the hospitals and health centres.”
