Israel pounds Gaza City as death toll rises
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have launched three raids on the northern city in recent hours. The attacks came as medical sources raised the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Tuesday to 64.
Deadly attacks in recent hours include on:
- tents in Deir el-Balah, where at least two people were killed
- Beit Lahiya, where at least four people were killed
- Nuseirat refugee camp, where at least five people were killed
- Khan Younis, where at least one person was killed
- al-Karama in northern Gaza City, where the Wafa news agency reported several people killed and wounded.
Israeli forces burn school-turned-shelter in north Gaza
Footage posted by the Palestinian Information Center shows smoke rising from the charred shell of the Mahdia al-Shawa School in Beit Hanoon. The media outlet said the school had been sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians.
👈شاهد | قوات الاحتلال تحرق مدرسة مهدية الشوا بالكامل، التي كانت تؤوي مئات النازحين في بيت حانون شمال قطاع غزة. pic.twitter.com/T4tKMEKNOU
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) November 13, 2024
The attack comes after Israeli forces told displaced people in Beit Hanoon to flee southwards on Tuesday.
Some of those Palestinians recounted horrific attacks in the northern town and said Israeli soldiers allowed in aid supplies to some areas only to attack those same places the next day.
Israel let UN mission deliver aid to north Gaza shelters, then attacked the area
The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says Israel has denied or impeded all of its attempts to provide food and healthcare to tens of thousands of people trapped in besieged northern Gaza so far this month.
The agency said Israeli authorities allowed only one mission by the World Food Programme (WFP) to enter on November 11.
The WFP convoy included two trucks carrying life-saving ready-to-eat rations and wheat flour, and one truck carrying bottled water. The aid was delivered to the Mahdia al-Shawwa School, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians, and a nearby public shelter, OCHA said. But shortly afterwards, Israeli forces surrounded the area, shelled it and forced people to flee.
Earlier, Palestinian media reported that Israeli forces had set fire to Mahdia al-Shawwa School and destroyed the building.
Israeli bombing kills 2 in Shujayea, Gaza City
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that two people have been killed in an Israeli bombing on Shujayea, in eastern Gaza City. Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 11 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on several areas in Gaza since midnight.
Death of critically injured girl part of ‘silent death’ in Gaza
At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, a nine-year-old girl sustained severe injuries two days ago when her father and mother were killed in a tent attack. She was the daughter of a journalist who was hit in an overnight attack. She was critically injured along with her brother.
She was admitted into the operating theatre but, this morning, because of the severe injuries and burns that she sustained from the attack, she was pronounced dead in the past half hour.
This is part of the silent death that is going on. Many people who arrive at the hospital with severe injuries undergo surgeries in the operating theatre but are then left without proper medical supplies and pain medication to help them survive these injuries. They die in silence.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 43,712 people have been killed and 103,258 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of those, 47 Palestinians were killed and 182 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.
