Three partially functional hospitals treating seriously injured patients and housing thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza are now out of service after coming under intense Israeli fire, a Gaza health official told Tel Aviv Tribune, as The siege of Jabalia enters its third week, with at least 33 more people killed in the northern zone.
Israeli forces bombed al-Awda hospital in Jabalia early Saturday and also shelled Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals in Beit Lahiya in the past few hours, Tel Aviv Tribune correspondents reported.
“We cannot count the number of people killed. The numbers are terrifying,” the official told Tel Aviv Tribune.
At least one person was killed and several others injured in the strike at the entrance to the Kamal Adwan Hospital laboratory, Gaza’s health ministry said.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency also reported that due to the military siege, two patients in the intensive care unit of the Indonesian hospital died on Saturday.
In another Israeli attack on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, at least 16 people were killed, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said on Saturday, adding that people were still missing under the rubble.
At least seven people were also reported killed in another Israeli strike on a school housing Palestinian refugees in the al-Shati camp, just west of Jabalia. In Jabalia itself, an airstrike on Saturday afternoon killed five more people.
Four more people were reported killed in another Israeli strike in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, according to our Tel Aviv Tribune Gaza team.
In the town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, two people were killed in an Israeli drone airstrike on the Khirbet area.
In total, the death toll surpassed 67 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 24 hours, as health authorities in the enclave previously reported. At least 450 people have been killed since the siege began two weeks ago.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s Tarek Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said witnesses in northern Gaza told him that the second and third floors of the Indonesian hospital, as well as its court, had been hit, resulting in “a number of victims”. “.
At least 40 patients are trapped inside the hospital and Israeli tanks have surrounded it, he said.
Meanwhile, the attack on al-Awda Hospital cut power to medical facilities. Witnesses also told Abu Azzoum that the situation in other areas of Jabalia had “severely deteriorated” since Friday.
“They said they were surrounded by Israeli tanks and that destruction was everywhere. They said the smell of death was in every corner of the Jabalia refugee camp,” he added.
“We must remember that Jabalia is already under a crippling siege and neither food nor water has entered the region for 15 days now,” Abou Azzoum said.
Communication and internet services were also completely cut, disrupting rescue operations, he said, adding that Israeli forces were advancing further into central Jabalia and fighting with Hamas forces.
Meanwhile, Palestinian authorities have warned that the toll from the latest strikes on Jabalia could rise, as some people are still trapped under the rubble.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said children were among the 33 confirmed dead. At least 85 other people were injured, some seriously, raising fears of more deaths.
The Israeli military said its operation in Jabalia was aimed at preventing Hamas fighters from regrouping for further attacks. But Gaza’s health ministry said most of those killed were civilians.
Health officials on Friday called for fuel, medical supplies and food to be immediately sent to three hospitals in northern Gaza, which are overwhelmed by the number of patients and injured.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also accused Israel of preventing at least 50 medical specialists from eight groups from entering Gaza, the first case of entire organizations being prevented from participating in humanitarian efforts in the besieged territory. .
Northern Gaza, once home to more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people, was reduced to rubble in the first phase of Israel’s assault a year ago. So far, more than 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli genocide in Gaza, according to Gaza health authorities.