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Israel receives possible captive remains from Gaza
The Israeli prime minister’s office has said authorities have received “findings” from Gaza, which could be the remains of two captives who have not yet been transferred from the enclave.
In a post on X, the office said the findings were transferred via the Red Cross and would be received in a military ceremony. They will then be transferred to Israel’s centre for forensic medicine for identification, the office said.
Hamas agreed to return the bodies of captives held in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement, but has said widespread destruction in Gaza has made recovery operations difficult.
Palestinian journalist wounded in Israeli drone attack that killed photographer
Wafa news agency is reporting that journalist Muhammad Abdel Fattah Aslih was injured in the drone attack that killed photographer Muhammad Wadi in Gaza.
The Palestinian news agency added that Aslih was the brother of Hassan Aslih, a Palestinian photographer killed in a drone attack on the emergency department on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in May.
Gaza’s devastated al-Shifa hospital struggling to rebuild: Doctor
Ahmed Mokhallalati, the former head of the burn unit at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, has described the challenges of rebuilding the enclave’s medical system amid the ongoing ceasefire.
Many of Gaza’s main hospitals had been methodically destroyed by Israeli forces throughout the war, he noted. That includes al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, which Mokhallalati described as being targeted “the same way they target a military system”.
The first time they targeted the hospital in November 2023… they targeted every critical station or facility from the hospital: the oxygen station, the generators, the telecommunication room, the electricity control room. So they kept the hospital out of service,” he told Al Jazeera.
“The second attack in March 2024, they realised that they want the hospital to be out of service forever, because they destroyed the buildings of the surgery hospital and the medicine hospital,” he said.
Rehabilitation has focused on the women’s hospital, he said, which was left partially intact. Still, progress has been slow going. They now have a 350-bed capacity, 20 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and 10 operating theatres.
“It was a lot of effort to reach that point, but to tell you, we have been recycling the instruments and the equipment from within Gaza’s system,” he said. “There was nothing coming in Gaza for more than two years with hundreds of thousands of casualties, with a lot of burden on the health system.”
An exterior view of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City
