Israeli forces kill 9 Palestinians from one family in Shujayea
The Wafa news agency is reporting that paramedics have recovered the bodies of nine people from one family following an Israeli attack on a residential building in the Shujayea neighbourhood in northern Gaza.
The victims were from the Farhat family and their bodies were transferred to Gaza City’s Baptist Hospital, the agency reported. The attacks followed a day of relentless Israeli bombardment that killed 43 people across Gaza, according to medical sources.
The Palestinian Civil Defence warned earlier of a worsening humanitarian situation in northern Gaza, saying that Israeli forces were “preventing the entry of water, food and medical supplies” to the area and “committing massacres, killing dozens and injuring hundreds”.
Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on central Gaza
More on Israel’s continuing attacks on the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.
The Wafa news agency is reporting that paramedics recovered the bodies of three people, including a child, after Israeli fighter jets bombed a house belonging to the Al Jamal family in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Emergency workers also retrieved the bodies of four people, including another child, after Israeli fighter jets bombed the Al Khalidi family biome in the Bureij refugee camp.
On Tuesday alone, Israeli forces killed 25 Palestinians in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps. Many of the victims were women and children.
Gaza hospital director says will not comply with Israeli order to shut facility
Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, said the “situation is disastrous” amid threats and warnings by the Israeli military that all staff and patients must leave the hospital.
The director also said that the hospital intends to remain open, despite the order to shut down.
“They told us formally and they are threatening us that we need to leave the hospital. We need to evacuate and render the hospital out of service,” Abu Safiya told Al Jazeera.
“We have also to evacuate all the employees from the different departments within the hospital, so that the hospital will be completely out of service. There will be no patients. No medical staff. Otherwise, the occupation will do exactly what they did with al-Shifa Hospital,” Abu Safiya said.
“We have babies and newborns that are in the ICU,” he said. “Even if we can evacuate a few patients, we cannot leave the hospital because there is no other hospital that is providing services and treatment to children, except Kamal Adwan Hospital,” he added.
“We will continue to provide services even if the army enters the hospital. We will continue to provide services because we are providing, first of all, humanitarian services that are not violating international humanitarian law and we are urging all international organisations to support us.”
Majd Salem, a six-month-old malnourished Palestinian baby, receives treatment at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip in May 2024
Israel’s military deploys more troops into Gaza’s Jabalia
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israel’s military is sending in more troops as reinforcements into the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s correspondents on the ground reported that dozens of bodies of Palestinians are lying on streets across the camp and that rescue workers are unable to reach them due to continuous Israeli bombardment.
Israel’s ground assault on Jabalia comes after its military on Sunday ordered the evacuation of all of northern Gaza. Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of three hospitals in the area and threatened to arrest those who did not leave.
The Wafa news agency said residents in Jabalia “fear being forcibly displaced” from the camp “through starvation and continuous bombardment” amid Israeli media reports of plans to create a military zone in northern Gaza.
Displaced Palestinians flee areas in northern Gaza following an Israeli evacuation order in Jabalia, October 6
