‘Horrific scenes’ from al-Ahli Arab Hospital
There’s too much pressure on health facilities, particularly in northern Gaza where there are almost no health facilities operational whatsoever.
We’re talking about one health facility that is running at a very low capacity, that doesn’t have the capacity to accommodate a large number of injuries transferred to its property – we’re talking about the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, an already crippled healthcare system across the northern part of the Strip.
In the past hour, there have been quite horrific scenes from the hospital. We looked at some of the footage – not suitable for viewers – we looked at people pick up flesh from the ground of the bomb site.
This is an evacuation centre and known in Gaza and Jabalia refugee camp and this is probably more than the 50th time this particular area, Jabalia refugee camp, has been repeatedly and deliberately targeted b the Israeli military.
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Rafah
The Israeli air strike targeted “a group of citizens” in the al-Zuhoor neighbourhood in the southernmost Gaza city, Palestinian Civil Defence agency spokesman Mahmoud Bassal says.
Israel has continued its relentless attacks on Rafah despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering it to put an end to the military operation there months ago. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched the ground invasion on May 7.
Israeli troops also took over the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, further slowing sporadic deliveries of aid for Gaza’s 2.3 million people.
‘Barbaric attack’: Hamas decries deadly Jabalia school strike
Hamas has condemned Israel’s attack on Jabalia’s Hafsa al-Faluja School, which killed 15 people, describing it as “a crime and a continuation of the genocide” in Gaza. Dozens were wounded in the attack on the school, which serves as a shelter for war-displaced Palestinian families.
“The escalation in barbaric attacks across the Gaza Strip in the last few days, especially on shelters and tents housing displaced people … highlights how civilians are deliberately targeted and how heinous massacres are committed against them,” Hamas said in a statement.
The international community must intervene to stop “the terrorism and grave violations of international and humanitarian laws”, it said. Israel’s forces have repeatedly attacked schools-turned-shelters during its year-long assault on the Palestinian enclave.
Bodies returned by Israeli army to Gaza unidentifiable
The past few hours have been quite emotional, but particularly for families waiting to know anything about their missing children. Many of these people were taken from evacuation centres, kidnapped, tortured, and dehumanised by the Israeli military. The last thing their families heard was that they were killed, and some of them heard that they would be sent back alive to the Gaza Strip.
The truck that was carrying the 88 bodies … [came] back to Nasser Hospital. Family members were gathered around the hospital, around this truck, in a desperate attempt to find out who these bodies are, and if their missing children – who had been gone for the past year almost – were among them. The bodies were taken to their final resting place in a mass graveyard in the Turkish cemetery around Nasser Hospital.
This is the fifth time the Israeli military has returned the bodies of Palestinians believed to have been tortured and killed after being kidnapped from evacuation centres. This is the first time that none of these bodies were able to be identified, simply because they were all deceased … they came back in fully skeletal shape … with no signs to [help identify] them.
The bodies of more than 80 Palestinians, taken by the Israeli military in Gaza, were returned this week in Khan Younis
Casualties after Israeli forces hit central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report a Palestinian was killed and others injured following an Israeli attack on a civilian car in Bureij camp.
Israel’s military continued its attacks across the besieged coastal enclave, killing at least 37 Palestinians including 15 in another bombing of a school shelter for war-displaced civilians.
The Israeli campaign has killed more than 41,500 Palestinians in Gaza – mostly women and children – since October 7, 2023.
Four Palestinians killed in new attack on northern Gaza’s Jabalia
At least five others were wounded in the blast that struck a residential home that belonged to the al-Batch family, Gaza’s civil defence agency says. It said its teams are also working on putting out a fire that erupted in the apartment when it was targeted.
