Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported the death and injury of dozens in new massacres in Gaza City (north) and Deir al-Balah (central), while fierce clashes continue between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the city of Rafah (south) and Jabalia camp (north) of the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that 15 Palestinians were martyred, including children and women, and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted the headquarters of the Ministry of Social Development in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
The reporter explained that the headquarters was housing large numbers of displaced people inside and around it.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also said that 8 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In Gaza City, the reporter said that 16 Palestinians, including about 10 children, were martyred after the occupation forces bombed a house for the “Shabat” family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the center of the city, which resulted in the 5-story house being destroyed and leveled to the ground.
It was also reported that 10 people, most of them children, were killed, and others were injured, in an Israeli bombing that targeted displaced people in a school and a mosque also in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, in central Gaza.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
On Thursday evening, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli occupation forces committed 9 massacres in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours, with 91 martyrs and 210 injured arriving at hospitals.
Thus, the number of martyrs of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has risen to 35,800, and the number of injured to 80,200.
Targeting hospitals
In a related context, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that there was a power outage at Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah due to the depletion of fuel.
According to the hospital administration, the hospital provides services to nearly one million people, and the lives of more than 1,200 patients and wounded are at risk.
For his part, the spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza, Dr. Khalil Al-Dakran, warned that operating rooms and ambulances would stop within hours, due to running out of fuel.
In a press conference, the speaker called on the international community to put pressure on the occupation to bring in the fuel needed to operate the hospital before it is too late and a disaster occurs.
Yesterday, Thursday, the occupation forces stormed Al-Awda Hospital in Tal Al-Zaatar, northern Gaza Strip, after besieging it for the fourth day in a row.
The occupation army forced the medical teams to leave the hospital towards western Gaza after arresting a member of the medical staff.
It is noteworthy that a total of 148 people, including patients, companions and medical staff, were inside Al Awda Hospital when the siege began.
Fierce clashes
On the ground, Palestinian media said that the occupation forces intensively fired flares in the sky of the Jabalia camp, in conjunction with violent air and artillery bombardment.
Video clips showed a fire breaking out in the middle of Jabalia camp, due to the continuous Israeli bombing.
Press coverage: A fire broke out in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, as a result of occupation bombing. pic.twitter.com/YAcEdiGPOv
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In the south of the Gaza Strip, violent clashes are taking place south, east and in the center of the city of Rafah, as the occupation forces attempt to expand their military operations into the city.
The Israeli army announced that it was continuing its military operations in the Brazil and Shaboura neighborhoods in Rafah.
He indicated that he was continuing his military activity in the Netzarim Corridor, which separates the northern Gaza Strip from its center and south, announcing – in a statement – that he had thrown the “Netzah Yehuda” battalion into an operation that he described as specific in the Beit Hanoun area, northern Gaza Strip.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said during a sea tour off the coast of Gaza that he would deploy more ground and air forces to maintain military pressure on Rafah and create what he called “conditions” for the recovery of the Israelis detained in the Gaza Strip.
For the eighth month in a row, Israel is waging a war on the Gaza Strip that has left more than 115,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
Israel continues this war despite the huge number of civilian casualties, and despite the International Criminal Court’s intention to issue international arrest warrants against its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its Defense Minister, Yoav Galant, for their responsibility for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.”
Israel also ignores a resolution from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire, and orders from the International Court of Justice to take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.