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SvennoJ on 06 December 2024
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Video footage shows drone attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital, teenager in wheelchair killed

We have been reporting on the Israeli drone and quadcopter attacks on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, which have targeted staff, patients and members of the public.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained harrowing video footage showing the aftermath of one Israeli drone attack at the entrance to the hospital that killed a 16-year-old patient in a wheelchair and wounded at least 12 others people, including medical staff.


Palestine Red Crescent emergency medic shot, killed in Khan Younis

Another volunteer member of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has been killed in Gaza, the organisation said.

Alaa al-Derawi, an emergency medical technician, died after being shot in the chest in the Khan Younis area in the south of the enclave while returning from a mission escorting patients to a Red Crescent field hospital in Rafah, the PRCS said on Thursday.

The PRCS, which has lost dozens of members of staff to Israeli military attacks, did not identify who had shot and killed al-Derawi.

“The Society strongly condemns this act and reiterates the critical importance of safeguarding and respecting the emblem and its bearers to ensure the safe delivery of humanitarian assistance,” the organisation said.

In October, the PRCS said that 34 staff members had been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023, including 19 who were directly targeted while performing Red Crescent duties.

Translation: The Palestine Red Crescent Society mourns the loss of its volunteer paramedic, Alaa al-Derawi, a martyr of humanitarian work who was killed today after being shot in the chest in the Khan Younis area while returning from a mission to transport patients to his workplace at the Red Crescent ambulance point set up in the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah …


Anguish, despair after Israeli air strike kills Palestinian toddler in Gaza


Relatives carry the body of Abu Zalfa, a three-year-old Palestinian child, who was killed in an Israeli attack on the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, on December 05.

The body of the toddler was taken to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.


Palestinian fighters continue to battle in Rafah, Gaza City, Jabalia, lull reported in Beit Lahiya

Palestinian fighters with the National Resistance Brigades fired mortars at Israel armour in Rafah city, in the south of the Strip, on Thursday as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) detonated improvised explosive devices in Gaza City in the north, war monitors report.

PIJ and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also attacked Israeli armour and ground forces in the north’s Jabalia refugee camp.

US-based security think tanks the Critical Threats Project (CTP) and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Israeli forces have not fought close-quarter battles with Palestinian fighters in northern Beit Lahiya in recent days, where a more than 60-day siege continues.

The lull in up-close street fighting by Palestinian groups in Beit Lahiya could indicate Israeli forces are “strengthening…operational control” in the area, the CTP/ISW report states.

According to the report, the Israeli army has indicated it will conclude ground operations in nearby Jabalia in the coming weeks, though Palestinian groups continue to launch attacks there.