Chaos at Deir el-Balah hospital after nearby attack
Right now, I am inside Al-Aqsa Hospital after the Israeli military attack carried out on a nearby evacuation centre.
There is a state of chaos inside the hospital as doctors are trying to provide wounded Palestinians with essential medical care.
The situation is absolutely dire; everyone in the hospital has suffered critical injuries. They are receiving treatment on the floor, in all departments, and all beds are over their capacity.
There is a very clear surge of air strikes on evacuation centres – these are the places where Palestinians have been told to go and seek refuge.
Gaza ministry lays out grim health situation around Khan Younis
Gaza’s Health Ministry has released an update on the status of several medical institutions around the southern city of Khan Younis, where Israelis are carrying out a large military operation.
The ministry said on Telegram that it was no longer possible to restart the European Gaza Hospital, which has been out of service, despite the urgent need for it.
The statement added that many primary healthcare centres are out of service – namely, the ones in Bani Suheila, Jurat al-Lut, Abasan and al-Qarara – in addition to several field medical points.
It said there is a vast increase in the number of displaced people, who are congested in certain areas where sewage flows and waste is piled up without water and personal hygiene materials.
“[This] makes things completely conducive to the spread of the polio virus and other diseases that has been spreading like wildfire among the displaced,” the statement said.
“The evacuations may extend to the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, which is the only hospital that is still operating despite all the challenges and obstacles,” it said, adding the facility’s shutdown would lead to a “definitive health disaster”.
Israel’s war on Gaza killed 39,258 people: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli war on the enclave has killed 39,258 people and injured 90,589.
The ministry said the Israeli forces “committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 41 martyrs and 103 injuries arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours”.
The latest death toll did not seem to include today’s attacks on Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis. The ministry said the Israeli bombing of Khadija School in Deir el-Balah killed at least 30 people, and 23 others were killed in the Khan Younis governorate since this morning.
Aftermath of Israeli attack on school in Deir el-Balah
A wounded Palestinian child is carried to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Deir el-Balah
Palestinians inspect a school sheltering displaced people following an Israeli strike in Deir el-Balah
About 170 killed in Israeli military operation in Khan Younis: Civil Defence
The Palestinian rescue agency says Israel’s military incursion in and around the sourthern city has also wounded hundreds since it began more than a week ago.
“Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in the Khan Younis area, we are talking of approximately 170 martyrs and hundreds of wounded,” the agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the AFP news agency.
At least one Palestinian killed in Israeli attack north of Nuseirat
A Palestinian has been killed and a number of others injured in Israeli bombing that targeted the Ard al-Mufti area, north of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
Our colleagues on the ground also report that Israeli forces bombed al-Salah “Ahmed al-Kurd” School, west of Deir el-Balah, injuring a number of people.
