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SvennoJ on 28 July 2024
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Fears of central Gaza invasion after new Israeli evacuation order

Since this morning, medical sources say, 18 bodies have now arrived at Nasser Hospital. There are ongoing artillery and air strikes as Israel’s army continues to target different areas of southern Khan Younis city, and not just those designated a “red combat zone”.

In the past hour, people in the central areas of Gaza – Nuseirat and Bureij – started receiving calls from Israeli forces telling them to evacuate. This area had already been designated as “safe” as the army told people from southern Rafah and Khan Younis and northern Gaza City to go there.

No attacks have occurred in central Gaza so far, but people are currently evacuating once again. Usually they drop leaflets, but this time it was phone calls. The central area is completely overcrowded with people who have no place to go and some have vowed to stay.

 

‘Doomed to certain death’: Israel denies people healthcare abroad

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) says Israel continues to bar Gaza patients from travelling abroad for treatment, effectively imposing a death sentence. It warned of the “catastrophic repercussions” of the continued closure of all Gaza crossings, which is stopping patients and the wounded from getting the medical care they desperately need.

The Rafah border crossing to Egypt has been closed since Israel captured it in early May, blocking what was the only route out of the besieged coastal enclave after Israel’s devastating war on Gaza began.

“This is a grave violation that confirms the genocide being perpetrated against the residents of the Gaza Strip. Whomever is spared death by the war machine will succumb due to the siege imposed,” PCHR said. “Thousands of wounded and sick people are doomed to certain death because Israel has destroyed the medical system in the Gaza Strip,” the group said.

 

Baby girl among 15 killed in 2 Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis

Two separate Israeli air strikes on Khan Younis have killed at least 15 Palestinians, including a four-month-old girl, medics said.

One air strike on an area containing tents housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi zone killed five people including a baby girl named Maria Abu Ziada. Al-Mawasi in western Khan Younis is a humanitarian-designated area where the Israeli army has been ordering Palestinians from other places to go.

Another air strike on a house at the centre of the city of Khan Younis killed 10 people, health officials said.

Translation: Maria Abu Ziada was killed after four months since she was born in an Israe strike that targeted a tent for the displaced in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.

 

Palestinian father carries headless child after Israeli bombing

Israeli warplanes targeted a house in Khan Younis city, killing five people including at least four children while wounding others.

Video from the scene shows grisly images of child victims ripped apart by the Israeli bombing. Footage also shows a father carrying the body of his headless child into Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after the attack.