12/22/2024–|Last updated: 12/22/202406:55 (Mecca time)
Eighteen Palestinians were martyred and others were injured at dawn on Sunday following an Israeli airstrike targeting various areas of the Gaza Strip, which has been subject to a 14-month genocide.
Al Jazeera correspondent reported that 8 Palestinians were killed and others injured following an Israeli bombing targeting a school housing displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the east of the city from Gaza.
In Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, 6 Palestinians were killed in a bomb attack targeting a house. The Al Jazeera correspondent said the search continues for the missing people under the rubble of the targeted 4-story house, noting that the building housed a large number of displaced people.
Also in the central region, Al Jazeera correspondent reported that an Israeli bombardment targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the death of 4 people.
Meanwhile, the Gaza Health Ministry announced that the Israeli occupation army had requested the immediate evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Al Jazeera obtained special scenes showing the accumulation of injured women and children in one of the hospital corridors, after all the rooms and departments of the hospital were exposed to gunfire and shelling artillery from Israeli vehicles entering near the Beit Lahia project hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
Footage shows that the occupying forces opened fire directly on the hospital, where dozens of injured and sick medical staff, children and women were inside the hospital.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, said that the Israeli occupation was bombing the hospital directly and without warning, noting that the occupation had requested the evacuation of the hospital within hours. Abu Safiya held the international community responsible for what the occupying forces are committing in Gaza.
For his part, the director general of the Gaza Ministry of Health, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, announced that the situation at the hospital was “catastrophic” as it was under an “unprecedented” Israeli attack, adding that the occupation targeted the hospital. with sniper fire and tank bombardments on its various departments.
Since last October, the occupation has continued to target the hospital, killing and injuring patients and medical staff, in addition to causing significant damage.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving nearly 153,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, mostly children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of people. children and the elderly.
Tel Aviv continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against the Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu And former Minister of Defense Yoav GalantAccused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.