Israeli forces blow up Gaza’s only dialysis hospital in the north
Israeli forces have demolished the Noura al-Kaabi Dialysis Hospital in northern Gaza, the only facility in the area providing life-saving treatment to kidney patients.
The hospital, located near Beit Lahiya, served dozens of patients from surrounding areas, including Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and the village of Umm al-Nasr.
Before today’s destruction, the facility had already been struck multiple times, damaging most of its dialysis machines and leaving only eight operational. The hospital has now been wiped out, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
This latest attack comes amid a broader pattern of Israeli strikes on Gaza’s healthcare system. Hospitals and clinics across the besieged enclave have been repeatedly bombed, raided and rendered nonfunctional, leaving Palestinians with extremely limited access to medical care.
Gaza’s Health Ministry as well as humanitarian groups have warned that the collapse of the healthcare sector is fuelling an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe during Israel’s aid blockade.
Health Ministry director says destroyed dialysis hospital was serving 160 patients
The director of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Muneer al-Boursh, has posted images of the Noura al-Kaabi Dialysis Hospital, which was struck multiple times by the Israeli military.
Al-Boursh said the centre, the only one of its kind in northern Gaza, was serving more than 160 patients after having been renovated and reopened weeks ago.
Death toll rises to 54 after day of Israel attacks on Gaza
Medical sources say 54 people have been killed in Israeli attacks throughout the Gaza Strip since the early morning. Among the dead were 35 Palestinians killed while waiting for desperately needed food near two of the recently established, Israel-backed aid distribution centres.
Israeli attacks have killed 4,149 people and wounded 12,149 in the war-battered territory since Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas on March 18, the Health Ministry says.
