GAZA – According to the latest statistics from the
Gaza government, there have been over 11,000 Palestinian casualties, including
more than 4,000 children, and over 28,000 people injured since October 7.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces' targeting of healthcare facilities
poses a threat to the lives of thousands stranded in health facilities. Other
hospitals have been compelled to evacuate patients, who are now "left on
the streets without medical care," as reported by a local official.
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In besieged
areas of Gaza, Israeli bombardment continues, especially in the south, where
tens of thousands of Palestinians have arrived in recent days, struggling to
find shelter, food, and water amid the blockade imposed by the Israeli
occupation since October 7, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
Israel completely destroyed the
cardiac building at Al-Shifa
Yousef Abu
Al-Reesh, the Deputy Minister of Health, stated that the Israeli occupation
completely destroyed the “cardiac building at Al-Shifa Hospital," where
tens of thousands of displaced, wounded, and sick individuals are still
stranded. He mentioned that "five infants" and "seven intensive
care patients" have died due to the power outage at the largest hospital
in Gaza, adding that it is "expected that the number of casualties will
increase."
According to
him, "650 patients, about 40 infants in incubators, all are at risk of
death, and 15,000 displaced" are present in this hospital. The hospital
reported that nurses are resorting to manual artificial respiration to keep
infants alive. A doctor from the organization "Médecins Sans
Frontières" mentioned that 17 patients are in the intensive care unit.
Mohammed Abu Salimah, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, warned that
"medical teams are unable to work, and dozens of bodies cannot be dealt
with or buried." Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
claimed in an interview with CNN that nearly one hundred patients were
evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital.
Save the children in incubators
because time is running out
Mohammed
Zakout, the director of Gaza hospitals, urged to "save the children in
incubators because time is running out to save their lives." On Sunday, he
warned of the "catastrophic situation" at Al-Shifa Hospital, stating,
"No one can enter or leave it."
The
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
described the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital as "serious" after
"three days without electricity and water." He said, "The
ongoing gunfire and continuous shelling in the nearby area (of the hospital)
exacerbate the already difficult conditions," adding that his organization
managed to contact medical personnel at Al-Shifa Hospital.
The Israeli
occupation army claimed that Hamas prevented Al-Shifa Hospital from receiving
300 liters of fuel. However, its director, Mohammed Abu Salimah, denounced
"lies," confirming that this quantity is not sufficient "to
operate the generators for more than a quarter of an hour."
Gaza could become a morgue
Médecins
Sans Frontières warned that hospitals in Gaza City could become a
"morgue." Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross
launched an "urgent appeal to protect civilians in Gaza."
Washington
stated its opposition to fighting around Gaza hospitals, "where innocent
people and patients receiving medical care find themselves trapped amid gunfire
exchanges." White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said to
CBS, "We have had intense discussions with the Israeli forces on this
matter."
‘Maximum restraint’ to protect
civilians
The EU's
foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, called on Israel to exercise "maximum
restraint" to protect civilians, while condemning Israeli allegations that
Hamas uses "hospitals and civilians as human shields." Zakout
confirmed that "the forced evacuation of Al-Nasr and Al-Rantisi Children's
Hospitals has left patients on the streets without medical care," adding,
"We have completely lost contact with the medical staff at Al-Nasr and
Al-Rantisi Children's Hospitals."
Possible exchange agreement
Meanwhile, smoke
rises from several areas in the Gaza Strip, and images and videos from Agence
France-Presse (AFP) show sounds of gunfire and explosions on the thirty-seventh
day of the war. Meanwhile, Israel pledges to eliminate the Hamas movement.
In the city
of Bani Suheila in southern Gaza, an AFP correspondent reported the destruction
of dozens of homes, the death of several individuals, and injuries to dozens in
an Israeli airstrike on Sunday. Meanwhile, Netanyahu spoke in an interview with
NBC on Sunday about the possibility of reaching an agreement to release
individuals held by Hamas. The Israeli army estimates that more than 240 people
are detained in Gaza following Hamas's attack on the Israeli-occupied
Palestinian territories within the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu claims that Israel is
‘progressing’
Netanyahu
claimed that things are progressing due to Israeli military pressure, saying,
"The moment we began ground operations, things started to change."
The Israeli occupation army is engaged in fierce battles with Hamas fighters in
Gaza, where, according to the occupation's narrative, the leadership of Hamas
is concentrated, with its fighters entrenched in a network of tunnels.
Hamas and
the Islamic Jihad claim to have destroyed several Israeli military vehicles. A
Palestinian official in Gaza, requesting anonymity, told AFP that Netanyahu is
"responsible for obstructing and hindering reaching a preliminary
agreement to release some of the resistance prisoners."
Intensive displacement
Furthermore,
the United Nations Development Program announced on Sunday the death and injury
of a "large number" of people due to the bombing of its headquarters
in Gaza, which had been evacuated in preparation to receive displaced
individuals.
Video
footage from AFP showed a crater in the middle of the courtyard of a school
managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees
(UNRWA) in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. In the south, where tens of
thousands of Palestinians have fled following warnings from the Israeli
occupation army, the situation has become catastrophic. Hundreds of families
sit on the sides of the road, showing signs of exhaustion and some sweating,
while children sleep on the ground, and others lean on their mothers.
Youssef
Muhanna, who fled from Jabaliya in northern Gaza to Khan Yunis, told AFP,
"My wife is sick, and I was injured with my daughter when a neighboring
house was bombed and our house was destroyed. We have been besieged for 25 days
without food, water, or anything." As for Umm Yakoub Abu Jarad (42 years
old), she evacuated from the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City. She said
with pain, "My children are sick. I can't even find bread for them. Where
do I get food for them? I have been sharpening since six in the morning to find
them a loaf of bread."
According to
an Israeli military statement on Sunday, a "safe passage has been opened,
allowing civilians to evacuate on foot or by ambulance from Al-Shifa,
Al-Rantisi, and Nasser hospitals," amid continued Israeli shelling of
refugee convoys. The occupation referred specifically to a passage from the
"Al-Shifa Medical Complex through Unity Street and then to Salah al-Din
Street, and moving to the south of Wadi Gaza." Shayna Law from the
non-governmental organization "ARC-Palestine" asked, "How can
the wounded walk kilometers to reach a safe place?" She added that if they
reach the south, "all the hospitals there are complaining of
shortages."
On Saturday,
the occupation claimed that two hundred thousand Palestinians had evacuated
within three days from the north to the south through "corridors"
that were open for a short time. Days after closing, the Rafah crossing with
Egypt, the only outlet for the Strip to the outside world, was reopened.
On Sunday,
800 holders of foreign passports and 20 injured Palestinians left Gaza for
Egypt, according to officials on the Palestinian side of the crossing. Limited
amounts of aid pass through Rafah to the Strip. A Jordanian military aircraft
dropped "urgent aid" over Gaza destined for the Jordanian field
hospital for the second time since the start of the war, as announced by the
Jordanian Armed Forces on Sunday.
Mutual bombardment
Concerns are
growing about the expansion of the war regionally. The Israeli occupation army
announced on Sunday that its aircraft targeted "terrorist
infrastructure" in Syria after a missile attack targeted the occupied
Golan Heights.
The exchange
of shelling continues between the Israeli occupation and Hezbollah in southern
Lebanon, with an occupation army spokesman confirming artillery fire towards
southern Lebanon on Sunday after ten civilians were injured due to a rocket
from Lebanon.
Lebanon's
Hezbollah confirmed the "targeting of a logistical force affiliated with
the occupation army, which was installing sending columns and eavesdropping and
spying devices in a newly established gathering near the Dovive barracks."
The
Al-Qassam Brigades-Lebanon claimed responsibility for shelling northern Haifa,
Shlomi, and Nahariya in northern Palestinian territories occupied by Israel
with "several concentrated rocket salvos."
In Ankara,
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for pressure on the United States to
compel it to stop the attack on Gaza, emphasizing that there will be no
agreement unless Washington accepts that the Gaza Strip is Palestinian. In
contrast, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Sunday his rejection of an
"immediate" ceasefire in Gaza, as calls for this continue worldwide
amid the ongoing intensive Israeli shelling of the Strip.
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