Gaza hospitals ‘incredibly overwhelmed’
The front-line hospitals that are barely functioning keep providing treatment and the medical teams are doing everything within their reach in order to keep working and give medical care to wounded Palestinians.
But it is clear to understand the level of pressure they’re under.
The corridors are crowded and the staff are experiencing a great shortage of fuel, as well as of medical supplies. And at the same time, the Israeli military is attacking emergency workers who are trying to rescue Palestinians.
Medics are asking for an immediate international intervention in order to rescue the fragile healthcare sector, which is deteriorating by the day.
Loud explosion heard in Bureij refugee camp
We’ve been hearing loud explosions; a huge one took place in the Bureij refugee camp.
Medical sources say they are struggling to recover dozens of injured people from the eastern side of the camp, which has been the focus of the Israeli bombardments. Eyewitnesses have told us that the Israeli military have been advancing [towards] there and increasing military pressure.
There have also been strikes on residential towers in the Nuseirat refugee camp. At least 91 Palestinians have been killed in just one week, which is unprecedented.
Israeli military struck Nuseirat camp 63 times in a week: Government Media Office
The office has said that the Israeli army has been focused on “savagely attacking” Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip “in an unprecedented way”.
The attacks in one week have killed at least 91 Palestinians, and injured more than 251, the office said in a statement.
“More than 75 percent of the victims have been brought to hospitals and many had severe burns on their bodies,” it added.
“Nuseirat camp, which is home to 250,000 people and IDPs, is being subject to shelling and air strikes despite how densely populated it is. The occupation is purposefully targeting neighbourhoods and occupied homes to kill has many people as possible,” the office said.
The most heinous of these crimes, it said, was the “massacre of al-Razi school, which left 23 dead, and 73 injured”.
Qassam, al-Quds Brigades claim series of attacks on Israeli military targets
The military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have said their fighters:
- Targeted with a rocket Israeli soldiers inside a building in Yabna refugee camp in Rafah, and shelled a group of military vehicles.
- Targeted soldiers with mortar shells in the the Netzarim Corridor, which was named after a Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, and set up during the war by the army to separate northern Gaza from the south.
- Carried out a series of unspecified operations against Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem.
