The assault targets an area housing displaced Palestinians, destroying 18 tents and injuring seven people.
The Israeli army bombed the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital compound in central Gaza, killing at least one person, injuring seven others and destroying more than a dozen tents.
Friday’s deadly attack is the latest to hit the medical facility, which has housed displaced Palestinians for months and faces a severe shortage of medical staff, equipment and medicine.
The hospital is the only functioning facility in central Gaza, treating thousands of Palestinians. On several occasions since October 7, Israel has bombed the Deir el-Balah hospital, which is one of the few areas still considered “safe” for people repeatedly displaced from other areas for shelter. .
From the hospital, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Tareq Abu Azzoum described the destruction at the site as extensive as he pointed out a crater resulting from the strike.
“The Palestinian refugees left everything they had here and they are completely destroyed, even blankets, mattresses and beds,” he said.
Some components of the Israeli weapon used were also found at the site, and one piece clearly showed it was made in the United States, according to Abu Azzoum.
Israeli forces have repeatedly and deliberately targeted medical facilities in the enclave, acts deemed war crimes under the Geneva Convention.
“Al-Aqsa is a place where people are trying to be safe after the massive Israeli ground incursion. But people here no longer feel safe because of repeated Israeli attacks,” Abu Azzoum said.
Elsewhere, four people were killed in another Israeli strike on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to Tel Aviv Tribune’s team on the ground.
According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, several people were injured in the attack on a house in the Jarn neighborhood of Jabalia.
One person was killed after Israeli forces carried out an artillery attack near a busy street near the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, our Arab colleagues at Tel Aviv Tribune reported.
Separately, five people were injured when Israeli forces struck a residential house in Deir el-Balah, Wafa reported. Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics transported the injured to Al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment.
Several residents were injured in the eastern region of Khan Younis, south of Gaza, following Israeli artillery fire that hit the town of Abasan al-Kabira, Wafa reported.
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the United States for its continued support of Israel’s war on Gaza and urged the international community to stop supplying weapons to Israel.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 41,534 Palestinians and injured 96,092, according to the latest figures released Thursday by the Health Ministry. More than half of the dead are women and children, including around 1,300 babies and young children under the age of two.
