Dozens of Palestinians were martyred and dozens of others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted two homes in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip. The occupation aircraft also launched violent bombardments on Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, Deir al-Balah in its centre, and the Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that an Israeli bombing targeted the Khalla family’s home in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, leaving an initial toll of 11 martyrs and a number of missing people.
The reporter also reported that 24 people were martyred and dozens injured in another Israeli bombing that also targeted the Shihab family home in Jabalia, and caused extensive damage to neighboring homes, leading to this large number of victims. The reporter indicated that there were missing people under the rubble.
Video scenes documented by Tel Aviv Tribune journalists showed the arrival of dozens of injured and martyrs to a medical center in Jabalia, including a large number of children.
The pictures also document the accumulation of injured people on the floor of the medical center’s departments, which can only provide first aid due to its lack of specialization, at a time when the rest of the hospitals in northern Gaza are out of service.
Khan Younes
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft carried out two raids on the Ma’an area, southeast of Khan Yunis. The Bani Suhaila area, east of Khan Yunis, was subjected to violent Israeli bombardment, and the occupation forces also bombed the Al-Qarara area, north of Khan Yunis.
Violent clashes broke out in the towns of Al-Qarara and Bani Suhaila between the resistance factions and the occupation forces, during which sounds of gunfire and heavy artillery shelling were heard.
Columns of black smoke were also seen rising from the sites of the clashes, before Israeli tanks launched heavy flares overhead in an attempt to reveal the locations of resistance fighters.
Eyewitnesses reported to Anadolu Agency that the clashes continued for several hours after that, before their pace calmed down in the early morning hours of Sunday.
Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat and Shujaiya
The occupation aircraft also launched air strikes on the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and also targeted the north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip with aerial bombardment, without any casualties being reported.
Israeli artillery stationed on the borders of the Gaza Strip also carried out violent bombardment of the eastern areas of the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, for hours on Saturday evening, according to local sources.
Kamal Adwan Hospital
In Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, after days of siege and bombing of the hospital facilities.
A video clip obtained by Reuters showed two shrouded bodies, an injured boy, a destroyed car, smashed and burned walls, and piles of abandoned belongings in the hospital.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that Israeli forces forced hundreds of displaced people who took refuge in Kamal Adwan Hospital to leave, and also transferred wounded patients and medical staff to the hospital yard.
Tel Aviv Tribune obtained pictures showing occupation bulldozers running over the tents of the displaced and killing those inside them.
Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila, citing witnesses, said that civilians were buried under the ground that was bulldozed by Israeli forces in the vicinity of the hospital.
The Israeli army said that it had completed its operations in the hospital after claiming that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) was using the hospital as a “command and control center,” claiming that weapons were found hidden in medical equipment, and about 80 fighters were arrested before leaving the place yesterday, Saturday.
Earlier, the authorities in Gaza said that Israel arrested about 70 medical staff during the raid, as Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot, a doctor at the hospital who was wearing a green uniform, said, “They raided the building, and took all the employees for investigation, and the injured are also being investigated.”
The United Nations humanitarian agency said a few days ago that, due to the Israeli aggression and violent bombing of the Gaza Strip, only 11 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are partially operating.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that its forces bombed the military crowds of the Israeli occupation army in the Beit Lahia axis with a barrage of mortar shells.
Assassination of a woman and her daughter
Earlier on Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem announced that an Israeli soldier shot dead a woman and her daughter inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, which is the only Catholic church in the Strip.
The Patriarchate explained in a statement that “on the afternoon of December 16, 2023, an Israeli army sniper assassinated two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families have taken refuge since the beginning of the war” in the Gaza Strip.
The statement added, “Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot dead while they were going to the nunnery,” without specifying their ages.
The Patriarchate continued, “Seven other people were injured by bullets while trying to help others inside the walls of the monastery. There was no warning or notice prior to this. They were shot in cold blood inside the monastery building where there was no resistance.”
The Patriarchate confirmed that “earlier the same morning, a missile fired from an Israeli tank targeted the monastery of Mother Teresa nuns, which houses more than 54 people with disabilities, and is within the walls of the church.” The fuel tank and the only electricity generator were destroyed, and an Israeli tank also fired Two shells hit the monastery, making it uninhabitable.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which has so far left 18,800 martyrs and 51,000 injured, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
