1/22/2024–|Last updated: 1/22/202412:13 AM (Mecca time)
The occupation has intensified its artillery and air strikes since dawn on Monday on the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital and the shelters for the displaced, west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, amid sound of explosions and Israeli attempts to penetrate the western axis of the city, fierce clashes taking place by the resistance in the area, and warnings against committing massacres.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent confirmed the death of a large number of displaced Palestinians and the injury of others west of Khan Yunis as a result of the Israeli bombing, noting the continuation of clashes, Israeli fire belts and the sound of explosions in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in the city since last night.
The reporter pointed out that about 40 martyrs arrived at Nasser Medical Complex, including children, as a result of an Israeli bombing that hit west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Some of them were buried inside the hospital walls due to the difficulty of transporting them to other places.
He added that a number of wounded were transferred to Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, due to the Israeli incursion and bombing in Khan Yunis.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also confirmed that the occupation forces are exhuming graves in the cemeteries of Khan Yunis, after the occupation admitted yesterday that it had exhumed another cemetery in Khan Yunis.
Meanwhile, the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced that it had targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell, west of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Warning of massacres
For its part, the Ministry of Health in Gaza warned that the occupation forces were committing horrific crimes west of Khan Yunis.
It confirmed that the Israeli occupation prevents the movement of ambulances to retrieve the martyrs and wounded west of Khan Yunis.
The Ministry of Health added that dozens of martyrs and wounded are still in the places and roads targeted by the occupation, west of Khan Yunis.
The Red Crescent is besieged
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that occupation forces were besieging its Al-Amal Hospital, confirming the complete loss of contact with its crews in Khan Yunis.
The Red Crescent stressed that ambulances were unable to move to evacuate the wounded as a result of the occupation’s siege of its headquarters in Khan Yunis, and the occupation forces’ prevention of its crews from reaching the places being bombed.
He continued to receive reports of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli bombing of Al-Mawasi School, which shelters displaced people west of Khan Yunis, amid the occupation’s siege of Al-Aqsa University, where citizens are taking shelter, and the bombing of its surroundings.
For its part, Palestinian medical sources reported the arrival of a number of martyrs and wounded from the vicinity of Al-Aqsa University in the Al-Mawasi area, which shelters thousands of displaced people, to the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in the city of Rafah, in the far south of the Strip.
#urgent| A Quadcopter aircraft fires on residents in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis pic.twitter.com/nNkFiaCkwF
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There is no safe displacement route
For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent confirmed that the Palestinian resistance is clashing with the occupation forces, amid heavy gunfire being heard in the vicinity of the university, while citizens are trying to flee to Rafah despite the danger of the road.
Local sources reported that the Israeli army blew up dozens of homes in the areas of Qaizan Rashwan and the Qaa al-Qurain neighborhood, south of Khan Yunis, amid violent clashes in those areas between Israeli forces and the resistance.
Palestinian media also said that Israeli occupation aircraft fired intermittently in the eastern areas located between the Khan Yunis and Rafah governorates in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al-Aqsa satellite channel reported that a Quadcopter aircraft last night opened fire on residents in several areas in Khan Yunis, most notably the Al-Nawasi area and the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex, and on the displaced people at Al-Aqsa University.
The occupation expands its operations
On the other hand, Israeli Radio said that the army deepened and expanded its operations in Khan Yunis, adding that 7 brigades are active underground and above ground in the city.
For days, Khan Yunis has witnessed an escalation in the intensity of battles between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance factions, resulting in widespread destruction in the city, including the exhuming of Palestinian graves under the pretext of searching for the bodies of Israeli prisoners.
The Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip resulted in the martyrdom of 25,105 martyrs, the injury of 62,681 others, most of them children and women, massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian and health catastrophe, in addition to the presence of thousands of missing persons.
