Israeli forces kill Palestinian child in occupied West Bank
According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Israeli soldiers shot dead a 14-year-old child in Halhul, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
PRCS identified the teenage boy as Naji Nidal al-Baba.
At least 4 killed in Gaza’s Jabalia camp
Medical sources say at least four people were killed and dozens of others injured after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the Toba area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
Jabalia has been under siege by Israeli forces, along with the rest of northern Gaza, since early October. Aid has been blocked and hundreds of people killed, including more than 50 children, in attacks on Jabalia in the past 48 hours.
More than 100,000 suffering from food, water shortages in north Gaza
The spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence agency in Gaza provided an update on conditions in northern Gaza after Israel’s weeks-long siege of the area.
- More than 100,000 people are without food, water, and medicine.
- Continuous bombings by Israeli forces are targeting inhabited homes in the region.
- The local medical system and Civil Defence are out of service.
- The Israeli army is not allowing rescue operations or the recovery of victims.
Children’s department in northern Gaza hospital hit
Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, says Israeli forces bombed the children’s floor, the nursery department, and the water tanks in the health facility.
Moreover, Abu Safia said the hospital was subjected to heavy Israeli shelling during a visit by a delegation from the World Health Organization.
Earlier this week, a new United Nations report said Israel has “perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system” that has included “deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities”, both of which are war crimes.
The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip
