DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed a minimum of 14 folks together with kids Sunday, Palestinian well being officers mentioned, whereas the bombing of a hospital in northern Gaza wounded a half-dozen sufferers.
Israel’s army continues its newest offensive towards Hamas militants in northern Gaza, whose remaining Palestinians have been nearly fully minimize off from the remainder of the territory amid a rising humanitarian disaster.
One airstrike flattened a residential constructing within the city Bureij refugee camp Sunday afternoon, in line with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital within the close by metropolis of Deir al-Balah, the place the casualties have been taken.
At the very least 9 folks have been killed together with six kids and a girl. An Related Press journalist noticed the our bodies on the hospital’s morgue.
Earlier on Sunday, one other Israeli strike hit a tent within the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing a minimum of 5 folks together with two mother and father and their two kids, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital mentioned.
In northern Gaza, the Well being Ministry mentioned a bombing focused the Indonesian Hospital wounding six sufferers, certainly one of them significantly. It’s the largest hospital north of Gaza Metropolis.
“We demand worldwide safety for hospitals, sufferers and medical workers,” the ministry mentioned in an announcement that additionally urged secure passage to and from hospitals, extra medical provides and gas and secure evacuation of the wounded.
The Israeli army Sunday night mentioned it was unaware of any assault on the Indonesian Hospital “within the final three to 4 hours.”
In the meantime, the army mentioned it briefly closed the important thing Kerem Shalom crossing after fighters launched mortar shells a number of meters (ft) from the close by humanitarian hall towards its troops. It mentioned Gaza’s major cargo crossing was reopened after those that fired have been “eradicated,” although it added that the arrival and distribution of humanitarian assist was delayed.
Kerem Shalom is the one crossing between Israel and Gaza that’s designed for cargo shipments and has been the primary artery for assist because the Rafah crossing with Egypt was shut in Could. Final month, almost two-thirds of assist coming into Gaza got here by way of Kerem Shalom.
A second chilly, wet winter is starting in Gaza, with lots of of 1000’s of Palestinians in squalid tent camps and reliant on worldwide assist.
The struggle in Gaza started when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 folks, principally civilians, and abducting round 250 folks. Some 100 hostages are nonetheless inside Gaza, a minimum of a 3rd believed to be useless.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 45,600 Palestinians in Gaza, greater than half of them ladies and youngsters, in line with Gaza’s Well being Ministry, which doesn’t say what number of have been combatants. The Israeli army says it has killed over 17,000 militants, with out offering proof.
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