Over 12,000 Palestinians have been martyred till now due to Israeli oppression
WHO restores communication with Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital after weekend interruption
Gaza’s al-Quds hospital now ‘out of service’ after running out of fuel and power: PRC
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, which like Hamas is backed by Iran, said it attacked Israeli army troops near the Dovev Barracks on Sunday, “inflicting casualties.”
With the humanitarian situation across Gaza worsening, 80 foreigners and several injured Palestinians crossed into Egypt
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Over 12,000 Palestinians have been martyred till now due to Israeli oppression. Till date 6,100 children were martyred while 15,500 are injured. Israeli forces since 37 days have been continuing their attacks. In Gaza, officials of health department told that in Khan Younas, 13 Palestinians also were martyred.
According to “Al-Jazeera”, in the eastern part of Khan Younas, a building was target and destroyed.
Some people who survived told that before the collapse, building started shivering and jolts were felt.
At another place in northern west, Israeli attacked citizens due to which nine citizens were martyred in the aerial attack.
Al-Shifa Medical Complex has stopped working and according to an official it has been converted into an open war area. All the areas surrounding the complex are being targeted. He further revealed now they are not providing health facilities due to grave situation and all our available sources have been destroyed. “Now at complex, we are not proving any health facility,” he added.
Four citizens also martyred in city Dir Albalakh, which is central Gaza Strip. In the northern area, the Israeli jets targeted residences of people and schools. In the eastern area of Younas Khan, in wake of Israeli attack one child was martyred and several others were injured.
“Regrettably, the hospital is not functioning as a hospital anymore,” he added in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
WHO lost communication on Saturday and the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said that operations at al-Shifa hospital complex, the largest in the Palestinian enclave, were suspended after it ran out of fuel.
Al-Quds hospital in Gaza is now “out of service” after running out of fuel and power, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Sunday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said al-Quds hospital in Gaza City is an out of service facility and no longer operational. “This cessation of services is due to the depletion of available fuel and power outage,” the PRCS said in a statement.
The humanitarian organization stated: “Repeated appeals for urgent international assistance, given the week-long siege and a five-day communication and internet blackout, have been unsuccessful. The hospital has been left to fend for itself under ongoing Israeli bombardment, posing severe risks to the medical staff, patients and displaced civilians.”
The PRCS urged international health and relief organizations to urgently provide necessary aid to Gaza and northern regions, to maintain healthcare services and support the remaining hospitals and emergency services.
The Palestinian organization had said on Saturday that al-Quds hospital was surrounded by Israeli tanks and military vehicles, with artillery shelling causing the building to shake. It added that there was “intense shooting at the hospital and the number of injuries is not yet known.”
Over the weekend, Palestinian officials had said that fighting intensified near Gaza City’s overloaded hospitals.
Al-Shifa and other hospitals in north Gaza, the focus of Israel’s month-old war to wipe out the militants and free hostages, were barely able to care for patients, medical staff said.
More people are killed and wounded daily by Israeli bombardment but there are fewer and fewer places for the injured to go.
Speaking from inside al-Shifa, Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israeli fire was “terrorizing medical officials and civilians alike.”
Israel’s chief military spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said on Saturday Israel’s military would help evacuate babies from the hospital at the request of staff there. Al-Qidra said that of 45 babies in total, three had already died and that they had not been told how to get the babies to safety.
A plastic surgeon in the hospital said bombing of the building housing incubators had forced them to line up premature babies on ordinary beds, using the little power available to turn the air conditioning to warm.
“We know this is very risky,” Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati told Reuters. “We are expecting to lose more of them day by day.”
In the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya also in north Gaza, Mosab Subeih, a baby boy, had been rushed in from a house struck by an Israeli missile.
“He has a direct injury to the head and bleeding, and we have no surgeries,” said one of the medics treating him with a manual resuscitator as power was cut.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said medical staff at the second largest hospital in northern Gaza, al-Quds, were struggling to care for those there with little medicine, food and water.
“Al Quds hospital has been cut off from the world in the last 6-7 days. No way in, no way out,” said Tommaso Della Longa, spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Shifa was also out of reach for the newly wounded, said Mohammad Qandil, a doctor at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in south Gaza, who is in touch with colleagues there.
“Shifa hospital now isn’t working, no one is allowed in, nobody is allowed out,” he said.
The World Health Organization said it had lost contact with the hospital and was worried about people trapped there.
Israel has said doctors, patients and thousands of evacuees who have taken refuge at hospitals in north Gaza must leave so it can destroy what it says are Hamas command centers under and around them. Hamas denies using hospitals this way.
Evacuations
On Sunday, Israel said people could safely evacuate from three hospitals in northern Gaza, including Shifa via one of its exits. Hospital director Mohammad Abu Selmeyah told Al Arabiya television that there was no safe passage out.
With the humanitarian situation across Gaza worsening, 80 foreigners and several injured Palestinians crossed into Egypt in the first evacuations since Friday, four Egyptian security sources said.
Poland said 18 of them were its citizens, and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told CBS News American citizens would be moved out of Gaza during Sunday.
At least 80 aid trucks had also moved from Egypt into Gaza by Sunday afternoon, two of the sources said. Jordan said earlier it had air-dropped a second batch into a field hospital.
Very little aid has entered Gaza since Israel declared war on Hamas more than a month ago after militants rampaged through southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, according to Israeli officials.
Palestinian officials said on Friday that 11,078 Gaza residents had been killed in air and artillery strikes since then, around 40 percent of them children.
Disease is spreading among evacuees packed into schools and other shelters and surviving on tiny amounts of food and water, international aid agencies say.
Speaking from inside Gaza City, Jamila, 54, said she and her family could hear the roar of tanks nearby.
“During the day, people try to look for essential items such as bread and water, and at night people try to stay alive,” she said. “We hear explosions throughout the night, sometimes we can tell that some of these explosions are exchanges of fire between the resistance fighters and the Israeli forces.”
Deaths pile up
The mother-of-six said her family was scared to leave.
“We hear lots of bombings in the south, and there is no food. Things there don’t seem different from our situation here,” she said by phone, giving only her first name.
Palestinian health officials said 13 people had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Sunday.
Residents reported increased fighting around Al-Shati refugee camp, by the coast in northern Gaza. The Israeli military said it had killed a number of militants there and called on civilians to use a four-hour pause to evacuate south.
The Gaza conflict has reignited conflict on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, which has seen the worst cross-border clashes since 2006.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, which like Hamas is backed by Iran, said it attacked Israeli army troops near the Dovev Barracks on Sunday, “inflicting casualties.”
The Israeli military said earlier that anti-tank missiles fired by militants had hit a number of civilians, adding that it was retaliating with artillery fire.
The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said one of its members near the town of Al-Qawzah in southern Lebanon had been wounded by a bullet overnight.