The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that the occupation committed three new massacres in the Strip within 24 hours, as the siege of the Jabalia camp continued for the fourth day amid resistance operations that targeted two Merkava tanks.
The Ministry of Health said – in a statement – that the Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip within 24 hours, of which 45 martyrs and 130 injured arrived at hospitals.
She added that the number of victims of the aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,010 martyrs and 97,720 injured since last October 7.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip had risen since dawn today to 22 martyrs as a result of the Israeli bombing of several areas in the center and north of the Strip.
A Gaza health official said that Kamal Adwan, the Indonesian, and Al-Awda hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip received forced evacuation orders from the occupation army, including patients and medical personnel, without providing safe alternatives to evacuation.
He added that the occupation is obstructing the process of evacuating patients by conducting inspections of ambulances, noting that yesterday, Tuesday, the occupation forces searched ambulances that evacuated 5 sick children from Kamal Adwan Hospital, and arrested one of the paramedics.
For its part, Doctors Without Borders said that the evacuation orders issued by Israel to residents of the northern Gaza Strip turn those areas into uninhabitable land.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent stated that the Israeli army intensified its raids during the past hours in the vicinity of hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, and the government media office in Gaza warned against repeating the scenario of the destruction of the Shifa Medical Complex, and affirmed its rejection of the occupation’s threats to evacuate hospitals and called on international organizations to protect the Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and Al-Awda hospitals.
Martyrs in Jabalia amid siege and bombing
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Israeli occupation army tightened its siege on the northern Gaza Strip from all sides, isolating it from Gaza City, in light of intense artillery and air bombardment and the bombing of citizens’ homes.
An Anadolu Agency correspondent reported that the Israeli army imposed a total siege on Jabalia and the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, and deliberately opened fire on everyone who moved, in conjunction with artillery and air bombardment that targeted homes, streets, and facilities.
The correspondent explained that the army is forcibly forcing Palestinians to leave their homes in the northern Gaza Strip and head towards the south of the Strip.
Eyewitnesses reported that Quadcopter planes were deployed in the streets of the northern Gaza Strip and were firing at any moving object, while an army sniper was stationed on high buildings.
The occupation continued to besiege Jabalia camp from all directions and pushed new military reinforcements towards the camp, targeting its homes with bombing. The occupation army bulldozers also carried out extensive sweeping operations in the streets and areas of Jabalia camp and its surroundings.
Last Sunday, the Israeli army announced the start of a military operation in Jabalia under the pretext of preventing the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) from regaining its strength in the region, hours after a fierce aggression against the eastern and western regions of the northern Gaza Strip, the most violent since last May.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the Israeli army bombed Al-Rafi’i School in Jabalia Al-Balad, causing two martyrs and a number of injuries. A number of Palestinians were also martyred and others were injured as a result of the occupation targeting a house behind the Civil Defense headquarters west of Jabalia Camp. There were also martyrs and wounded in the bombing of the Al-Fakhoura area in Camp.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that the bodies of dozens of martyrs were scattered in the streets of Jabalia camp, noting that civil defense teams were unable to recover a number of missing persons under the rubble of demolished homes there.
In addition to Jabalia, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the occupation army launched continuous artillery shelling on Beit Hanoun, and Israeli marches also bombed citizens’ homes in Beit Lahia, and continued to blow up citizens’ homes in the Al-Tawam area in the northern Gaza Strip.
The occupation forces also continued their artillery shelling of the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
From the north to the east of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported that the occupation artillery renewed its bombardment of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. These sources said that an Israeli helicopter fired towards the eastern areas of Gaza City in conjunction with firing from the occupation vehicles.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that 9 people were martyred in a raid that targeted a house next to the Basat Market in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Two others were also martyred today in a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced people west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, in addition to 6 others being martyred in a bombing that targeted two houses in the Nuseirat camp and Bureij.
In the south of the Gaza Strip, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent said that Israeli gunboats intensively bombarded the beaches of the city of Khan Yunis.
Targeting two Merkava tanks
On the other hand, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – the military wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) – announced that its resistance members detonated a high-explosive device with an Israeli Merkava tank in the Jabalia camp. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Hamas movement – announced that it had targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” missile. In the Al-Isra neighborhood, west of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
