At least 200 Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted – last night and today, Monday – Al-Shifa Medical Complex and neighborhoods in Gaza City, Jabalia, and Nuseirat Camp, at a time when the occupation forces continued their siege of Al-Awda Hospital and arrested its director.
Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, told Tel Aviv Tribune that more than a hundred martyrs were killed in Jabalia alone in the northern Gaza Strip as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing of the area. He added that the bombing left 20 wounded, in addition to 100 other people still under the rubble.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that 26 displaced people were martyred in the occupation army’s bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He said that the largest medical complex in the Strip was targeted 3 times this morning, and was under continuous fire.
He pointed out that Israeli forces are besieging a cluster of schools housing a large number of displaced people in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City as well.
The correspondent reported that 54 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli bombing on the areas of Al-Sabra, Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, and Al-Rimal in Gaza City.
It was also reported that at least 25 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted homes in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Al Awda Hospital
In a related context, Al-Awda Health and Community Association denounced the occupation forces’ arrest of 21 medical staff working at Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, 12 days after the hospital was besieged.
A statement by the association stated that the occupation released the detainees after 3 hours, while Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, director of the hospital, remains in detention.
The association also denounced the arrest, intimidation and intimidation of its employees. The statement called on the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and international institutions to pressure the occupation to immediately release the hospital director. It also called for providing the necessary protection to the medical staff inside Al Awda Hospital and the besieged patients without food, water, or electricity.
Since the beginning of its war on Gaza, Israel has targeted hospitals and medical institutions, bombing them, storming them, and destroying their facilities, resulting in hundreds of martyrs among the sick, wounded, and displaced people who took refuge in those hospitals to escape the Israeli bombing of their homes.
Deaths among Gaza prisoners
In a related context, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that a number of prisoners who were arrested inside Gaza died in a detention camp in the Negev and quoted the army as saying that it would investigate the matter.
The newspaper added that the Israeli army is holding hundreds of prisoners it arrested from Gaza in an army camp in the Negev near Beersheba, and pointed out that the army keeps the prisoners blindfolded and handcuffed most of the time.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority said today that it has testimonies of “horrific” torture operations carried out by the Israeli occupation against Gaza detainees.
Last week, human rights organizations, including the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Al Mezan Center, and Al-Haq, called for an end to the “forced disappearance” of hundreds of prisoners who were arrested by the occupation army from the Gaza Strip, including women and children.
A number of Gazans, who were arrested by the occupation forces from Gaza earlier before releasing them, revealed the violations they were subjected to and the conditions of their detention inside one of the UNRWA schools in which they took refuge to escape the bombing.
This comes as the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip continues for the 73rd day, leaving nearly 19,000 martyrs and more than 51,000 wounded, most of whom are women and children, in addition to massive destruction of residential buildings, vital facilities, and hospitals.
