All hospitals in northern Gaza out of service, government says
Gaza’s Government Media Office has said all hospitals in the northern part of the Strip are out of service, amid relentless Israeli bombardment and a military siege that prevents access to humanitarian aid including medical supplies.
The office said in a statement on Telegram that 1,800 people were killed and 4,000 wounded in northern Gaza in the past month. It added that civil defence teams have been hit while on service and some of them have been arrested or prevented from working.
It said the area was “disaster-stricken” and appealed to the international community to uphold international humanitarian law and pressure Israeli authorities to allow the safe passage of aid.
Casualties in latest Israeli raids on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
There have been multiple air strikes across the Gaza Strip. In the central area, residential buildings have been targeted in the northern and western side of the Nuseirat refugee camp as well as on agricultural lands.
One of the latest attacks injured five people, including young children. Earlier, separate raids targeted two residential buildings, killing at least two Palestinians.
Gaza’s death toll rises
At least 43,374 people have been killed and 102,261 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of those, 33 Palestinians were killed and 156 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.
Israeli strikes kill 10 people in Gaza: Report
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians in Gaza with seven dead in an attack on two houses in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya and three fatalities in a strike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the enclave’s centre, medics tell Reuters.
Several people were wounded in both attacks, they said, adding that Israeli forces had sent tanks into the northeast of Nuseirat camp earlier in the day.
Israel deployed tanks into Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya on October 5, saying it intended to prevent Hamas from regrouping.
Palestinians said the new aerial and ground offensives and forced evacuations were “ethnic cleansing” aimed at emptying two northern Gaza towns and a refugee camp of their population to create buffer zones. Israel denies this, saying it is fighting Hamas militants who launch attacks from there.
Gaza’s Government Media Office put the number of Palestinians killed since October 5 at 1,800. It said 4,000 were wounded.
Israeli forces continue onslaught of northern Gaza hospital: Health ministry
Gaza’s health ministry has issued a statement warning that it may be its “last distress call” as Israeli forces continue to besiege Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.
“At this moment, occupation forces are continuing to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital, targeting all parts,” the health ministry said of the besieged medical facility in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya.
“There are many injuries among medical staff and patients. Medical staff are unable to move between hospital departments and are unable to save their injured colleagues. It seems a decision has been made to execute all the workers who refused to evacuate the hospital,” it said in a statement.
Civil Defense says it was forced to stop operating across northern Gaza
Gaza’s Civil Defense says it has been forced to stop operating across the entire northern part of the Gaza Strip due to ongoing Israeli attacks, as thousands of citizens remain trapped without humanitarian and medical care.
It added that Israeli forces attacked Civil Defense crews operating in the north, seized their vehicles, forcibly displaced most of their members to the southern part of the Strip and abducted seven of them.
Top UN officials issued a joint statement last week warning that “the entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence.”
Besieged Gaza hospital ‘turned more into a graveyard than a health facility’
Heavy artillery fired by the Israeli army hit the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the past hour, causing injuries to patients inside as well as some medical staff with some critically wounded. Children are among the wounded after Israeli forces targeted the paediatrics ward.
It’s the second time in the past few days that such attacks have happened. Earlier, a medical supply warehouse on the third floor of the facility was blown up.
The Israeli military has banned the World Health Organization and other medical missions from reaching the hospital. It is also preventing anyone from the outskirts of the hospital from reaching it for medical assistance.
There is not one single ambulance left that’s operating in northern Gaza. There’s an acute shortage of all basic medical supplies, and the hospital has basically turned more into a graveyard than a health facility.
Qassam Brigades targets Israeli forces in Gaza City
The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters have targeted Israeli soldiers east of the Shujayea neighbourhood with mortar rounds.
Meanwhile, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, al-Quds Brigades, said its forces “detonated a piercing explosive device in a Zionist vehicle that penetrated east of Jabalia camp” in the northern Gaza Strip.
Gaza civil defence: Medicine, water, and food severely blocked in northern Gaza
The spokesperson of the Gaza civil defence agency Mahmud Bassal has said more than 1,300 people have been killed so far in the Israeli military operation in northern Gaza, AFP news agency is reporting.
“There is a severe blockade on medicine, water, and food” in the north of the territory, he told AFP. “Medical teams, civil defence crews and hospitals in the northern region have been out of service for the 13th day in a row.”
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip
