The Health Ministry reports that a “large number” of dead and injured have been taken to hospital following continued Israeli bombardment.
The Israeli army is carrying out intense air, land and sea attacks in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 200 people and sowing fear among the war-weary displaced population.
Dozens of air raids hit the besieged territory on Saturday, particularly in Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat in central Gaza, on homes west of the town of Rafah in the south and in several areas of Gaza City in the south. north.
Gaza’s health ministry said a “large number” of the killed and injured were arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, the majority of whom are children and women.
“Dozens of injured people are lying on the ground and medical teams are trying to save them with the basic medical capabilities they have,” he said, adding that he lacked medicine and food and his main generator was not working. no longer worked. due to a lack of fuel.
A statement released by the Gaza government’s media office said 210 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Nuseirat and other parts of central Gaza.
A Health Ministry spokesperson said earlier that there were still “many” bodies and injured people on the streets.
Communications have been affected by the intense shelling, but from inside the “overwhelmed” hospital via a phone call, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Hind Khoudary said the situation is tense, with terrified people on the street not knowing who to turn to.
“There are explosions every minute. Ambulances transfer the injured to the hospital where we are stuck. It’s chaos inside the hospital. There are children among the injured,” she said.
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), described Al-Aqsa Hospital as a “complete bloodbath,” adding that it looked “like a slaughterhouse.”
“The images and videos I received show patients lying everywhere in pools of blood… their limbs have been torn off,” she told Tel Aviv Tribune.
“This is what a massacre looks like,” she added. “This means parents are running around looking after their children who have blood coming from their heads and trying to find a doctor to treat them. But it’s so chaotic and there are so many patients that the numbers far exceed health care’s capacity to care for them.
In a brief statement, the Israeli military said its forces were “targeting terrorist infrastructure in the Nuseirat area.” He later announced that his forces had rescued four captives during the operation in Nuseirat. The four people, who were taken to Gaza after the Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7, were in “good medical condition”, the army said.
Also in central Gaza, at least six Palestinians from one family were killed by Israeli forces after bombing their home in the Bureij refugee camp in the morning.
Dozens of air raids targeted southern areas of Gaza City, with witnesses reporting that entire residential blocks were destroyed, while helicopter gunships bombarded the area near the fishing port.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas responded to Saturday’s attacks by calling for an emergency session of the UN Security Council on what he denounced as a “bloody massacre carried out by Israeli forces.”
The Israeli military is only intensifying its deadly campaign in Gaza after an attack on Thursday that killed around 40 people sheltering at a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, home to some 6,000 Displaced Palestinians.
He claimed to have killed 17 “terrorists” in the attack, but the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said in a condemning statement that the “school-turned-shelter” had been targeted without any warning. and that those responsible must be held accountable.
Hamas accused the Israeli military of providing “false information” about the 17, saying that at least several of those reported killed are still alive.
