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Israel continues to attack al-Awda, the last-remaining hospital in North Gaza
Relief International says al-Awda Hospital in North Gaza has become the last partially functioning medical facility in North Gaza after heavy bombardment of the nearby Indonesian Hospital rendered services there “impossible”.
Al-Awda, however, is also under an Israeli evacuation order and the hospital has come under attack in the past two days, including assaults that destroyed its fuel tank and its last generator, the aid group said.
Relief International, which provides support to al-Awda, said there are currently 63 staff and 34 patients inside the hospital.
“The facility has no electricity but continues to receive patients, providing the best possible treatment with no fuel, and a severe shortage of medication and medical supplies. Staff are terrified and awaiting clearance for the safe evacuation of patients to Gaza city,” it added.
The group’s CEO, Craig Redmond, called on Israel to end the targeting of civilians, health staff and health infrastructure.
“We are very distressed about the situation facing patients and health staff at Al Awda’s hospital in Jabalia. Right now, it is critical that they are granted safe passage to evacuate and leave the facility,” he said.
Israel has defended its raids on Gaza’s hospitals, claiming Palestinian armed groups use them for military purposes, but the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Turk, told the Security Council last week that the Israeli military has not provided evidence to back that claim.
Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza amid truce talks
Israeli forces have killed at least 194 people across Gaza in the period between Thursday and Saturday, many of them in residential areas. Children and babies are among the wounded.
The surge came as Israel and Hamas continued indirect negotiations in the Qatari capital, Doha.
The Israeli military said it had targeted more than a hundred Hamas sites.
Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City, January 5
Satellite images show Israeli forces intensifying demolitions in south Gaza
Satellite images, obtained by Al Jazeera’s Sanad Agency, show that the Israeli military has stepped up the destruction of homes and agricultural lands in the al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza.
The images, taken between December 9 and January 1, show widespread demolition of buildings and structures and bulldozing of land and greenhouses in the area, which is located the Tal as-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah.
The destruction carried out by the Israeli army extended 2.2km (1.4 miles) into the Gaza Strip from the Egyptian border, Sanad said.
The area, known as “Rafah Mawasi”, was crowded with displaced people in the early months of last year, before Israeli forces launched a ground operation in Rafah and forced hundreds of thousands of displaced people to move to the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
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