DEIR ALBALA, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 42 people overnight and Friday, including children, hospital and emergency officials said, and two reported Medical workers and the Israeli military have argued over the evacuation order. A hospital located in the northern part of the territory, which is largely isolated.
The claims over Al Awda Hospital and Indonesian hospitals come amid stalled ceasefire negotiations. War lasting about 15 months It was scheduled to resume in Qatar.
Staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said more than a dozen women and children were killed in strikes in central Gaza, including Nuseyrat, Zawaida, Maghazi and Deir al-Balah. The previous day, dozens of people were killed across the enclave.
“We woke up to a missile attack and found our entire house collapsed,” Abdul Rahman al-Nabrisi said at Maghazi refugee camp.
Late on Friday, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital officials announced that an airstrike killed three people in a car in Zawaida, central Gaza. The Civil Defense Force, a first-response force attached to the Hamas-run government, said an airstrike killed seven people, including four children and a woman, in the Shijaiya district on the outskirts of Gaza City, and another airstrike killed seven people in the Gaza Strip. It was announced that two people were killed at the Al Samer intersection. Gaza City.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had attacked dozens of Hamas gathering points and headquarters throughout Gaza over the past day. He also warned people to leave areas in central Gaza, saying they would attack after firing at Israel. The military said several projectiles entered from central and northern Gaza, but no injuries were reported.
Freelance journalist Omar al-Delawi was among those killed on Friday. A press vest was placed over his shroud. The Committee to Protect Journalists announced last month that more than 130 Palestinian journalists had been killed in the war.
The Israelis also woke up to the attack. Israel announces missile fired from yemenwhich set off air raid sirens in Jerusalem and central Israel, sending people rushing to shelters. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. In Yemen, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels often claim responsibility for the attacks.
Concerns over hospitals in northern Gaza
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Friday, The impact of war on hospitals Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza said in a statement that the Israeli military had instructed staff and patients to evacuate immediately. Details were not disclosed.
A nurse at an Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza also told The Associated Press that they had received an evacuation order. A nurse, speaking on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly, said 19 people were still at the scene, including eight patients, and officials had called for an ambulance.
The Israeli military said it was “not carrying out any operations to evacuate” Al Awda hospital or any other Indonesian hospital.
“Messages have been sent repeatedly to health officials stating there is no need to evacuate hospitals,” the newspaper said of the Indonesians.
Statements from either side could not immediately be confirmed. The Israeli military has severely restricted the movement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and barred foreign journalists from entering the area throughout the war, making information difficult to verify.
The impact of the war on hospitals is a matter of debate, as the medical system has been extensively destroyed. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating outside the hospital and said the military was trying to protect the facility. The military attacked several hospitals during the war, including Al Awda Hospital and Indonesian Hospital.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the Security Council on Friday that in his office’s recent report, “at least 136 The strike resulted in serious deaths and injuries to doctors, nurses and medical personnel.” Staff and other civilians were also affected, and many of the targeted buildings were damaged or destroyed. He said both sides must protect their facilities.
Further talks in Qatar
Hamas says indirect ceasefire talks will resume on Friday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it had given permission for Mossad intelligence, internal security agency Shin Bet and military delegations to continue talks in Qatar. It was announced at
U.S.-led talks have repeatedly stalled. Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to advance the Gaza Strip until Hamas is destroyed. However, despite being greatly weakened, the militants have repeatedly rallied after Israeli forces withdrew from the area.
The war was sparked by an attack on Israel by Hamas-led militants on October 7, 2023. They killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250 people. There are still about 100 hostages in the Gaza Strip, and at least a third are thought to be dead.
Israel’s retaliatory attacks have killed more than 45,500 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with more than half of the dead being women and children, according to the Gaza Strip Health Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its tally.
The Israeli military says it targets only the militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths, as the fighters operate in densely populated residential areas. The military claimed to have killed 17,000 insurgents without providing evidence.
war is caused widespread destruction Approximately 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were evacuated. many of them multiple times. winter has arrivedAnd hundreds of thousands of people are taking shelter in tents near the sea.
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Fatma Khaled reported from Cairo and Sam Mednick from Jerusalem.
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