Palestinian killed by Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza
A Palestinian man has been killed and others wounded after an Israeli drone attack in Jabalia town in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
It said the Israeli military struck a group of Palestinians attempting to remove the rubble of their home, in an area which had been almost destroyed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Earlier at least seven Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli attacks, including a child who died from injuries sustained days earlier, while 21 were reported on Tuesday to have been injured over a 24-hour period.
The Wafa news agency reported that three Palestinians were killed near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, one of them a man who had recently married. Another Palestinian man was later killed on Tuesday in an Israeli drone attack near the Sheikh Nasser neighbourhood, east of Khan Younis.
In northern Gaza, a Palestinian woman was killed when Israeli naval forces shelled tents sheltering displaced families northwest of Beit Lahiya.
Verified video obtained by Al Jazeera showed the body of Abdullah Dawas, a child wrapped in white cloth for burial, after he succumbed to injuries 10 days after being shot in the head near al-Fakhoura clinic in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.
Another Israeli attack on a group of people at the Dawla roundabout in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood killed one person and injured several others.
Earlier, Israeli quadcopter drones dropped explosives on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near Gaza City’s Shujayea area, setting the encampment ablaze.
‘Destruction and casualties’
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Gaza, said Israel was showing “no intention of scaling back its attacks”.
“Israel’s ongoing attacks are not simply causing destruction and casualties but are reigniting fear across communities that have barely had time to recover,” he said.
It is carrying out the attacks during its occupation of eastern Gaza as Palestinians, most of them displaced, are crowded into western areas and humanitarian aid remains severely restricted by Israel. Israeli soldiers have regularly opened fire on anyone approaching the areas it occupies and have demolished hundreds of homes there.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 784 Palestinians have been killed and 2,214 wounded since the “ceasefire” took effect while 761 bodies have also been recovered from beneath Gaza’s rubble. Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave has killed at least 72,560 Palestinians and injured 172,560 since it began on October 7, 2023, according to the ministry.
Indonesia denounces Israeli banner raised over ruins of Gaza hospital
Indonesia has accused Israel of flying a “propaganda” banner over the ruins of the Indonesian Hospital built in Gaza with Indonesian funding.
The hospital in northern Gaza near the boundary fence with Israel was opened in late 2015 after Indonesia’s Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, a humanitarian NGO, raised 126 billion rupiah (about $7.3m) in donations for its construction, according to the state news agency Antara.
It was destroyed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Jakarta said a banner has now been raised over its ruins that alludes to Israel’s 12-day war against Iran last year.
“The use of military symbols and propaganda over the ruins of a destroyed hospital, especially when linked to a specific military operation, is a highly provocative act and cannot be justified,” the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta said.
“This act is an insult to a humanitarian facility built from the solidarity of the Indonesian people for the Palestinian people.”
Indonesia strongly condemns and protests the placement of the “Rising Lion” banner by Israeli forces over the ruins of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.
The use of military symbols and propaganda over the ruins of a destroyed hospital, especially when linked to a specific…
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Gaza newborns fighting for survival as congenital anomalies rise
In the neonatal unit of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, newborns are fighting to survive during what doctors describe as an unprecedented rise in congenital anomalies linked to the conditions of war.
Two-week-old Ahmed is already showing signs of excess fluid in the brain. Sharing his unit is Suheir, two months old, born with multiple deformities affecting his mouth and ears, and Osama, also two months, with a hole in his heart and enlarged ventricles in his brain.
Osama’s mother, Najia Zu’rub, has not left the hospital since he was born.
“I became pregnant with him during the war, and the pregnancy was exhausting due to the lack of food,” she said. “I didn’t even have safe drinking water and was living in inadequate tents. The doctors explained that his condition is not genetic. He is my first child, and there is no family history of such conditions.”
Zaher al-Whaidi, director of the Health Information Unit at the Palestinian Health Ministry, attributed the surge to five factors: widespread hunger, decline in healthcare services, overcrowding, contaminated drinking water and the effects of ongoing air strikes.
Last year, at least 457 neonatal deaths were reported, “a 50 percent increase compared to before the war”, al-Whaidi said.
