A new wave of attacks on Gaza has been launched by Israeli forces, hitting areas close to some of the few remaining hospitals, and causing a rise in the number of civilian casualties in Gaza City.
Israeli forces killed at least 83 Palestinians on Thursday, according to medical sources.
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Some of the last fragile lifelines left for the hungry, sick, and wounded were harmed when missiles struck areas surrounding al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals. At least 15 people died outside al-Shifa, and four more died in an attack on al-Ahli in addition.
The assaults came “less than 24 hours after the release of a new UN report documenting the commission of the crime of genocide against our people,” according to Hamas, which called them “full-fledged war crimes.”
The organization claimed that the strikes were “a clear sign of defiance and flagrant contempt for the international community.”
Hamish Falconer, the UK’s Middle East minister, described the overnight bombardment of another hospital, al-Rantisi, as “horrifying.” He wrote on social media that “babies in incubators and children on dialysis shouldn’t be bombarded.”
40 patients fled after being struck three times, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Another 40 were confined to their rooms with staff.
‘Medicide’
Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was saddened by the passing of one of its own. After an Israeli attack struck close to his tent, Hussein Alnajjar, a nurse and father of three, succumbed to shrapnel wounds. Since the beginning of 2024, he had been collaborating with MSF clinics in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.
Israel’s destruction of the Al Basma IVF center, which obliterated 4, 000 embryos and 1, 000 sperm and egg samples, was described as “a measure intended to prevent births among Palestinians in Gaza,” and one of the acts that was classed as genocide under the 1948 convention.
According to the UN, these patterns represent a coordinated effort to demolish Gaza’s health sector, which includes the killing of health workers and the destruction of hospitals in an effort to end medical care there.
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Israel is moving ahead with its ground offensive in Gaza City after approving a plan to seize the city in August, with 61 deaths reported on Thursday.
Residents claim that homes have been flattened by tanks, jets, and naval ships bombarded on an unprecedented scale. The UN Human Rights Office earlier this week criticized Israel’s “wanton destruction” as “tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”
A child and his mother were among the victims of the bombing that occurred in their home in the Shati refugee camp.
No one knows what to do, according to displaced resident Abed Alaleem Wahdan, who spoke to Al Jazeera. “The future feels destroyed. “The bombing is everywhere, even in the south,” says one witness.
Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza has been attacked as well, but it’s also under Israeli control. Health officials warn that the area lacks “basic necessities of life, including]health services, and] disease is spreading in overcrowded camps.
According to the Health Ministry, families are targeted directly both inside and when trying to leave the camps.
Despite the danger, hundreds of thousands of people have chosen to travel north only to find their homes ruined. In the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, Israeli forces reported that they detonated 10 booby-trapped armored vehicles.
The humanitarian office of the UN (OCHA) has been in contact with aid convoys in northern Gaza as a result of the ongoing famine that has become worse since the Zikim crossing was shut down on September 12th.
Source: Aljazeera
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