Israeli Forces attack two Jabali Hospitals intensifying the offensive in Rafah
The attacks on the hospitals in Gaza raised the death toll to at least 129 and brought the UN aid relief agency’s total number of Palestinians who died in the conflict to more than 1,000 on Tuesday.
Since the weekend, Al-Awda Hospital in the north of Jabalia has been under Israeli siege and shelled with artillery. Likewise, in Beit Lahia, Kamal Adwan Hospital sustained damage, and certain affected patients and medical workers had to be evacuated. The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that snipers have fired at al-Awda Hospital, and an artillery rocket hit the fifth floor where the administration is located.
Again, while calling for the protection of the remaining patients and the hospital staff, the cessation of further hostilities, and humanitarian aid access to the facility, Ghebreyesus took to social media platform X to write.
Jointly administered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the Ministry of Health, Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hossam Abu Sfiya said that shells hit the emergency room entrance.
Rafah and Khan Younis are amongst the most bombed areas of the Gaza Strip. An airstrike took place in the densely populated Yabna refugee camp in Rafah, where, according to Al Jazeera Arabic, three children were killed. Speaking of the past day, the Palestinian health ministry reported 85 dead and 200 injured, in total, 35,647 people since October 7.
Tom, this morning’s events, the Israeli forces are advancing further into Jabalia refugee camp, to the north of the Gaza Strip, under intensive airstrikes. This ground attack has been on for almost two weeks, and although the forces of Hamas and Israel have exchanged blows, the most threatening has been witnessed recently. Homes and evacuation reports reveal that tanks and bulldozers level neighbourhoods and stores.
”Israel is destroying the camp on the heads of the people. The bombardment never stops,” said Abu el-Nasser, a resident of Jabalia refugee camp. “A shocking number of people turned to agencies voicing a desperate Call for more food to go into Gaza. We wish to save lives, not extra food.
The UN termed Palestinian refugees UNRWA stopped food aid to Rafah and, in similar situations, revealed that it had no supplies to proceed with this activity and it is not secure. The agency said no medical supplies have entered Gaza in the last ten days due to the closure of the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings by Israeli forces.
The WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus urged Israel to open the airspace for the delivery of humanitarian aid, listing the necessity of humanitarian access to maintain the support of hospitals in Gaza that was getting worse.
Israeli National Security Minister Iti Mar Benn Gvir has declared his willingness to repopulate Israelis in the Gaza Strip as soon as the conflict is over. In an Israeli live interview, the far-right minister endorsed total Israeli domination over the Gaza Strip and the construction of Jewish homes across the area. He also talked about ideas of the “encouragement of the Palestinian residents voluntary migration”.
In another incident, forces in Israel seized a camera and transmitting equipment of the AP in the southern part of Israel. The AP criticised the action, saying it was a blatant misuse of relatively new legislation on foreign broadcasters that the government primarily directed at the Al Jazeera news network.
AP demanded the Israeli authorities give back their equipment and permit the restoration of live broadcast streams so as to continue offering essential visual reportage worldwide. The officials did this in Sderot and delivered an official notice signed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, saying that frequencies have been used in violation of the law dealing with foreign broadcasters.
