Significant surge in number of injured patients: Al-Ahli Arab Hospital director
Director Fadel al-Naim says al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City is experiencing a surge in the number of injured people due to an escalation of Israeli attacks in the city and in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, according to Wafa.
In a statement to Voice of Palestine Radio, he said most cases arriving at the hospital are serious injuries, increasing the challenges of treatment due to a significant shortage in medical supplies, Wafa reported.
Al-Naim added that despite appeals for blood donations, problems of anaemia and malnutrition persist among residents. He stressed the need to open the crossings so the hospital can urgently transfer critical cases outside of Gaza for treatment.
Rescuers evacuate a wounded child at the site of an Israeli attack in a residential area of the Tuffah neighbourhood
Israel kills two paramedics near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza
Two ambulance crew members have been killed in an Israeli bombing in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
As we’ve been reporting, the Kamal Adwan Hospital has been rendered nonoperational following weeks of near-daily Israeli attacks. Israeli forces have killed the director of the hospital’s ICU, Dr Ahmed al-Kahlout, and wounded dozens of medical staff in attacks on and near the facility.
Meanwhile, in eastern Gaza City, in the Daraj neighbourhood, two Palestinians were injured in an Israeli air strike on a house on Jaffa Street, our colleagues confirmed.
Palestinian fisherman killed by Israel in central Gaza
The al-Awda Hospital reports a Palestinian fisherman has been killed after being shot by Israeli forces. He was working in the Tabat al-Nuwairi area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, when he was killed, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
Six Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on eastern Gaza City
At least six people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in eastern Gaza City. Footage shared online, and verified by Al Jazeera, showed family members rushing to the site and digging to rescue survivors.
“The explosion was very loud. We managed to recover three people who were wounded in addition to four bodies,” resident Abdullah al-Majdalawi told Al Jazeera.
“There are more martyrs and wounded. A lot of victims are children. There is nothing dangerous here, just children and civilians. We can’t tolerate this any more. This is against humanity. I have heard children crying under the rubble.”
Fourth infant dies due to cold weather in Gaza
A fourth infant in Gaza has died due to extreme cold in the past 72 hours, the Wafa news agency reported. Medical sources said the baby died after the drop in temperature amid the dire humanitarian conditions across the enclave.
In more than a year of nonstop Israeli attacks and lack of aid deliveries, many families in Gaza have been left without adequate shelter and resources to cope with changing weather. Local health officials told Wafa that the lack of food among mothers was contributing to a rise in health issues among children, further straining medical facilities and emergency services.
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