On Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation forces renewed their aerial and artillery bombardment on various areas of Gaza, on the 71st day of their devastating war on the Strip.
A Palestinian medical source reported that 14 people were killed in a bombing that targeted several homes on Old Gaza Street in the town of Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent confirmed that violent clashes are taking place between the resistance and the occupation forces in the Tal al-Zaatar area of Jabalia camp, which witnessed similar clashes during the past days that led to a large number of deaths among the ranks of the Israeli army, according to its official statements.
Meanwhile, occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, and initial reports indicated casualties.
Kamal Adwan Hospital
In a related context, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation army completely destroyed the southern part of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, north of the Strip.
The Ministry indicated that 12 children are still detained in incubators in the hospital without water or food.
On December 5 of this year, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli forces penetrating the northern Gaza Strip had taken Kamal Adwan Hospital out of service “by force, terrorism, and tank nozzles,” after besieging and bombing it for several days, before storming it a week later, arresting its director, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, and taking him to a destination. Unknown.
The Undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Yousef Abu Al-Rish, said last Wednesday that the Israeli army is using civilians trapped in Kamal Adwan Hospital as “human shields.”
The Israeli army is escalating its targeting of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, coinciding with a devastating war it is waging against Gaza that has left about 19,000 martyrs and 50,000 injured – most of them children and women – in addition to massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.