Situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital ‘from bad to worse’
Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, says the situation under the siege is moving “from bad to worse”.
Many of the wounded in the hospital that has come under attack in recent weeks are dying because of a severe lack of medicine and supplies, Abu Safia said. The hospital is also lacking specialised medical workers.
“We don’t even have ambulances” to evacuate the bodies of slain Palestinians and others wounded in an Israeli attack a day earlier on a family home, Abu Safiya said.
Neighbours were able to evacuate 10 bodies and 35 wounded people from under the rubble. At least 50 others remain trapped.
“This is the daily situation here in northern Gaza. The Israeli siege is killing the Palestinian people here,” Abu Safiya said.
Northern Gaza has been under siege for more than a month. Food, medicine, and water “are not allowed” to enter northern Gaza, said the doctor.
“We urge the world and international human rights organisations to help the healthcare system in northern Gaza, and to allow as soon as possible the visiting medical teams to enter northern Gaza.”
Child killed in Israeli drone strike in southern Gaza
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that a Palestinian child was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a house in Abasan al-Jadida, east of Khan Younis.
Israeli strike on tent in Gaza’s Khan Younis kills 3
At least three Palestinians have been killed and five wounded in an Israeli air strike on a tent housing displaced families west of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Another journalist killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Israeli forces have killed another Palestinian journalist in Gaza.
The Gaza-based Government Media Office said Khaled Abu Zir, a journalist working for a local radio broadcaster, was killed by the Israeli army, bringing the death toll of journalists and media workers killed in Gaza killed by Israel since October last year.
The statement urged the international community and international press groups to deter Israel and prosecute it before the international courts for its crimes committed against the Palestinians and journalists in particular.
Last week, UN chief said the killings of journalists in Gaza since October 7 last year have been “unacceptable”.
Israeli forces raid Marda village in West Bank
Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces have raided the Marda village, north of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit. The report said that Israeli forces stormed the village while “firing barrages of live gunfire and flare bombs”.
The army also “sealed off the western entrance of the village at a time when the eastern entrance continues to be blocked by a metal gate for several months”.
