When the volleys and explosions subside and only the buzz of the drones breaks the silence of the rubble of Gaza, the patients who are able to walk try to leave the Al Aqsa hospital, in the center of the Strip under attack. It’s risky, they have to cross a war zone proclaimed by the Israeli army. Yet, they do it because they are desperate. Monther Abu Their managed to escape four days ago. «I didn’t feel safe inside the hospital, the explosions were getting closer and closer. I armed myself with courage and went out. I walked fearing I would be hit by a volley. God protected me and I managed to reach a group of people without harm,” Abu Their told a Palestinian journalist. In the Al-Aqsa hospital there is no more electricity, the autonomous generators are stopped and assistance to the wounded and sick is minimal. “It’s very risky for patients who are trying to leave,” Dr. Tareq Abu Azzoum explained on TV Al Jazeera “The hospital is located in an area considered a battle zone.” Azzoum added that Israeli forces have positioned themselves a few hundred meters from the health facility as they try to take full control of the Salah al-Din highway which crossed all of Gaza before being destroyed in several places by aerial bombardments and passing bulldozers. and tanks. The situation at Nasser in Khan Yunis is similar to that of Al Aqsa hospital. Videos released by the agency Reuters they show patients lying on stretchers in hospital corridors and doctors using cell phones to light up patients. «We no longer have beds. Medicines in the emergency room are insufficient. We are trying to find alternatives” warned Dr Mohammed al Qidra.
Words that contrast with the version of “respect for civilians and international humanitarian laws in Gaza” given by the Israeli army repeated dozens of times in recent days by official Israeli representatives on the occasion of the proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague which sees the Jewish state accused of genocide. Thirteen people, including a two-year-old girl, died in an air strike on two houses in Rafah on Friday night. Bassem Arafeh, a relative, showing a photo of a little girl, said the families were having dinner at the time of the raid. «This little girl was hungry, she died while she was eating a piece of bread with nothing on it, where is the International Court of Justice when our children die? Where are the Muslims…and the world leaders?” asked Arafat, addressing local journalists. The Israeli army said its forces yesterday killed dozens of Hamas fighters and other armed groups in Khan Younis and central Gaza. For its part, the Islamic movement said it had fired at a military helicopter in southern Gaza. Firefights, cannon fire and air attacks also occurred in the refugee camps of Al Bureij, Al Nusseirat and Al Maghazi. Palestinian witnesses said an Israeli missile exploded a few meters from a bus. More than 20 victims in northern Gaza, in Beit Lahiya and in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 135 Palestinians killed and 312 wounded between Friday and Saturday. In total, since 7 October there have been 23,843 deaths.
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The report given to the UN on Friday evening by the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Martin Griffiths leaves no room for interpretation. «The Israeli campaign in Gaza has been conducted with almost no regard for the impact on civilians,” the UN official denounced, adding that Palestinians may not be able to return to northern Gaza, which was largely razed by bombing. «The healthcare system is collapsing. Women are unable to give birth safely. Children cannot be vaccinated. The sick and injured cannot receive treatment. Infectious diseases are on the rise. And people seek refuge in hospital courtyards » he reported. Then Griffiths, quoting UN staff who visited the northern part of Gaza, described the situation as “horrific”, with bodies abandoned in the streets and hungry people stopping trucks to ask for food and basic necessities. Finally, you underlined that the UN reception centers are overflowing and that water and food are running out.
In the West Bank, at least 10 young Palestinians were injured and five arrested during an assault by Israeli military units on the Al-Faraa camp, which lasted several hours. Raids and arrests took place in the Hebron area after the assault on a colonial outpost attempted by three young Palestinians, all killed by the military.
On the Israeli side, it is underlined that we are 100 days away from the seizure of around 240 hostages by Hamas and other Palestinian groups. Over 130 of these hostages remain prisoners in Gaza and families and Israeli authorities have organized solidarity demonstrations and sit-ins across the country to demand their release. Hamas would have accepted that the Red Cross would deliver the medicines they need to the Israeli hostages. In Tel Aviv, several thousand people gathered last night in Habima Square called for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government.
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