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Another baby killed in Israeli attacks on central Gaza

As we reported earlier, the Israeli military killed two people in an attack on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

An infant was among the victims of that attack, which struck the Washah family home, according to the Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center.

The baby is the second to be killed in the Palestinian enclave in recent hours. Earlier, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent on the ground reported that a 15-day-old newborn was killed when Israeli forces bombed a home in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.


Most violent attack overnight in Gaza’s Khan Younis kills at least 20

In just the past few minutes, there was a funeral for people killed in overnight strikes on central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. But the most violent attacks happened in southern Khan Younis, in the al-Mawasi evacuation zone.

We’re talking about five air strikes within a span of 45 minutes. These attacks targeted two tents, one residential flat, a home, and a vehicle. A total of 20 people were killed – including five children. The flat housed displaced people from Gaza City.

People were literally told to move to this area because it’s designated by the Israeli military as a “safe zone”. It highlights only one fact – that even marked evacuation zones are not safe for people.

In central Gaza, three people were killed in an attack on a home in Deir el-Balah. People arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital with critical injuries, but because of the lack of medical supplies, they are not going to be treatable.

In Bureij refugee camp, at midnight a four-storey building was flattened to the ground. Civil defence members were able to recover only the body of a four-month-old baby from under the rubble. Rescue efforts were initiated again this morning, but until now they’re unable to find any other bodies.


A Palestinian carries the body of a child killed in an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis, Wednesday


Gaza death toll rises

At least 51 Palestinians have been killed and 78 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The latest deaths brought the total toll to 45,936, it said.

Israel’s war on Gaza also injured a total of 109,274 people, the announcement added.


Gaza’s Nasser Hospital partially shuts down due to fuel shortage

The Palestinian Information Center has cited Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as saying that the health facility in Gaza’s southern city has stopped providing health services, except for the intensive care unit and operating rooms, due to the fuel crisis.

It comes a day after Gaza’s Health Ministry warned of “a real disaster” as none of the remaining operational health facilities in the enclave has any fuel stock left, “threatening hospitals, oxygen stations, medicine refrigerators, and nurseries”.

“The [Israeli] occupation forces aid convoys, including fuel trucks, to take roads filled with thieves and bandits to steal them under its protection,” the ministry said.


Gaza doctors: ‘Mission impossible’ to treat the wounded now

Israeli forces in the past few hours targeted a school housing displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Jabalia. At least two people were killed and dozens injured. Gaza’s north has been under siege for 80 days now.

In the south, Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis announced it would shut down operations at 5pm (14:00 GMT) because it’s run out of fuel. A woman suffering from kidney disease just died because the electricity cut out when she was on the dialysis machine.

A convoy carrying fuel entered the Gaza Strip in the past few days, but six out of the eight trucks were looted by gangs that are now increasing the chaos of the war here. The situation is collapsing in all aspects of life.

The Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir el-Balah serves about one million Palestinians. It is now out of basic supplies and medicine. Surgeries are being done without anaesthesia. Doctors here tell us it’s “mission impossible”. It’s a lack of everything in the Gaza Strip.


Israeli forces target telecommunications workers in Gaza City

An Israeli air strike targeted a group of Palestine Telecommunications Company workers who were maintaining towers in the Shujayea district of northern Gaza City. Four employers sustained critical injuries in the attack. Al Jazeera’s correspondent Hossam Shbat shared a video documenting the scene.