Civil Defence: Life for those who remain in Beit Lahiya ‘catastrophic’
A spokesperson tells our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that Palestinians in the northern Gaza area face extreme difficulty and danger. Earlier, we reported that Israel had bombed Kamal Adwan Hospital and laid siege to a school-turned-shelter in Beit Lahiya.
Here is a summary of the spokesman’s comments:
- Sixty thousand citizens in the northern Gaza Strip are at risk of death.
- We cannot provide any medical or ambulance service in the northern Gaza Strip.
- It has been 60 days since the siege began, and the people of the north have not had good food or clean drinking water.
- Houses in the northern Gaza Strip are uninhabitable.
Several people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City
At least five people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a home in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports, adding that others have been wounded.
Wafa said several other people were killed in a separate strike on the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Israeli forces encircle school-turned-shelter in Beit Lahiya
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have surrounded a school-turned-shelter in the besieged northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, launching gunfire towards the building.
The Abu Tamam school is currently home to internally displaced families who have been unable to move southwards amid a renewed Israeli ground offensive in Gaza’s northern region, where famine looms due to a crippling siege.
Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked school shelters across Gaza, often killing and wounding many displaced Palestinians, including women and children.
Israeli army attacks north Gaza hospital
Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent on the ground in the Strip reports that Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya was subjected to artillery shelling and gunfire by Israeli forces.
The correspondent adds that added that the Israeli forces are besieging Abu Tamam schools, which shelter displaced people in the centre of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that the besieged residents of Beit Lahiya are facing severe danger due to the intensification of the shelling.
Kamal Adwan Hospital confirms Israeli bombing
The director has told Al Jazeera that for the fifth time in recent weeks, the Israeli army has bombed the hospital. He said the army used quadcopter drones to drop bombs on the medical centre.
Last week, an Israeli drone killed Dr Ahmed al-Kahlout, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, as he was reportedly passing through the gate of the besieged facility in northern Gaza.
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