At least 24 Palestinians killed, 93 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza mosque, school
Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israeli forces of committing “two brutal massacres” overnight by bombing a mosque and a school-turned-shelter and killing at least 24 Palestinians.
Some 93 others were wounded in the attacks in central Gaza, it said on Telegram.
The targeted buildings were identified as the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibn Rushd School. Both were housing hundreds of displaced people, the media office said.
The bombings followed 27 Israeli assaults on 27 homes and displacement centres across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, it added.
Israeli army encircles northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp
Israeli forces have surrounded the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, said multiple strikes rocked Jabalia through the night and there were many casualties. Israeli forces have bombarded Jabalia regularly since the war on Gaza started, displacing almost all of its residents.
“The troops of the 401st Brigade and the 460th Brigade have successfully encircled the area and are currently continuing to operate in the area,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
Intelligence indicates the “presence of terrorists and terror infrastructure in the area of Jabalia … as well as efforts by Hamas to rebuild its operational capabilities in the area”.
“Prior to and during the operation, the [air force] struck dozens of military targets in the area to assist ground troops.
Gaza healthcare workers ‘constantly scared they’ll be the next target’
Dr Jeremy Hickey, speaking to Al Jazeera from Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, says when he worked there in July, the facility was at 300 percent capacity but the situation is even more desperate now.
“The place is flooded with people and this is the daily situation,” said Hickey.
Medical facilities have been repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces since the beginning of the war and the doctor noted local healthcare workers are “constantly scared they’ll be the next target”.
“There’s some level of safety being a foreigner, but at the same time, we don’t know who or when will be struck. For those reasons, we’ve been instructed very particularly we’re not to leave the hospital grounds. But even last night there was an attack literally across the road to the hospital entrance, and any one of us could’ve been struck.”
Palestinians arrive in Gaza City after fleeing Jabalia
Palestinians flee the Jabalia refugee camp after Israel ordered residents to leave
Israeli troops and tanks entered Jabalia early on Sunday
Al-Quds Brigades claims attacks on Israeli forces in north Gaza
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad says its fighters “sniped” an Israeli soldier on “Girls Street” in the east of Beit Hanoun town in northern Gaza. The attack was carried out “in conjunction with Qassam Brigades”, the armed wing of Hamas, it said on Telegram.
Separately, al-Quds Brigades said it targeted “a command and control room” belonging to the Israeli forces penetrating the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza with TBG, or thermobaric, rockets.
