Kamal Adwan Hospital director says 11 sick children at risk of death due to fuel shortage
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, has told Al Jazeera that “11 sick children in the nursery and intensive care units are at risk of death within hours due to fuel shortages” that threaten to shut down the facility.
According to Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, who is reporting from Gaza, Abu Safiya warned that the children, some of whom are infants, are “at risk if fuel does not come and enter the northern part of the Gaza Strip”, where the hospital is located.
“We know that the World Health Organization has a convoy filled with fuel and medicine heading to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, but so far, they are still on the checkpoint waiting for the green light from the Israeli forces to cross,” Khoudary reported.
“So there’s no guarantee that they’re going to make it to the hospital.”
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least 33 health facilities have been out of service since October 7. The remaining hospitals need “at least 4,000 litres [1,056 gallons] of fuel every day to continue operating”, Khoudary added.
Israeli air attacks kill nine people in Shati, four in az-Zarqa
At least nine people have been killed in an Israeli air attack targeting a group of Palestinians in the UNRWA-run Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Earlier, at least four people were killed in the Israeli bombing of a civilian car in the az-Zarqa neighbourhood, north of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Information Center (Palinfo).
The casualties were taken to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.
Palinfo also reported that Israeli warplanes were firing at homes in the Sabra neighbourhood, south of Gaza City.
Israeli military says one soldier killed in failed air strike on Gaza
An Israeli soldier was killed in a failed Israeli air strike on the southern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military said. Lieutenant Shahar Ben Nun, 21, was a commander in the Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit and his killing brings the Israeli military death toll since October 7 to 694.
How many Israeli soldiers have been killed by its own army in Gaza?
This is not the first time an incident like this has occurred since Israel’s war on Gaza started.
- In January, the military published a report acknowledging that some of its soldiers were killed in air strikes and by shrapnel from their own explosives. Some were run over by Israeli armoured vehicles or mistakenly identified and hit by tank fire, shelling and guns, according to the report.
- According to the military’s website, 53 soldiers killed in Gaza died as a result of what it calls “operational accidents”.
- Twenty-eight of them were killed by “friendly fire”, five died because of “firing irregularities”, and 20 as a result of “accidents”, including those involving weaponry and trampling by military vehicles.
- In May, five Israeli soldiers were killed in “friendly fire” in the Jabalia refugee camp where a tank fired two shells at a building where they were gathered.
