AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): At least 70 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more have sustained injuries in the Israeli military airstrikes and ground offensives across the war-torn Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, with most of them in the northern part of the coastal territory, say local authorities.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing medical officials and local sources, reported that at least 20 people lost their lives when an attack targeted a home in the besieged northern town of Beit Lahiya.
Another four people were killed and several others wounded as Israeli fighter jets bombed a house in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City in the north.
Israeli forces also bombed another tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza.
Six people, including two children – a six-year-old and a four-year-old, were killed in the attack, while an unspecified number were wounded, Wafa reported.
A mother of one of the people killed said they were burned in the attack while they were sleeping.
The assault marked the third Israeli attack on displacement tents in recent hours, following deadly strikes in Deir el-Balah and Khan Yunis, which killed five people in total.
Moreover, the Israeli military attacked a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the Maen area east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Three people, including a child, were killed in the attack.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israeli soldiers “continue to bomb and destroy” north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, suggesting that Israel plans to “execute” medical workers who refuse to leave.
Eid Sabbah, the hospital’s director of nursing, says several children, including newborns in incubators, are the “direct victims” of Israel’s attack on the facility.
“There are 125 patients in the hospital, including children and the wounded. The incubator had eight babies and the Intensive Care Unit has seven newborns and children who all need to be on a ventilator,” he said.
Israeli strikes have damaged the upper floors, where the children’s ward was located, forcing staff to move the babies and children to the lower floors, which do not have the same equipment.
“So they (the babies and children) are direct victims of these attacks,” Sabbah said.
He noted that Israeli forces have detained dozens of the hospital’s staff, including surgeons, neurologists and pediatricians, during last week’s raid.
“The hospital is extremely understaffed as a result. There are four doctors and 50 volunteers, medical workers and nurses. They can’t cope with the huge influx of wounded people and there are no supplies.
“Israeli forces have destroyed warehouses and the pharmacy storing supplies and many of the facilities in the hospital have been destroyed,” he said.
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