GAZA CITY, Palestine: Ministry of Health reported that 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombings in the last 24 hours in Gaza, leading to total Palestinians killed to 26,900, including 11,500 children, 8,000 women, 65,949 injured. 8,000 Palestinians are missing.
The Israeli army on Wednesday stormed the courtyard of Al-Amal Hospital affiliated with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip following a 10-day siege, reported Anadolu Agency.
“Occupation forces are currently raiding Al-Amal Hospital square (and are) stationed in front of the external gate of the reception and emergency department and firing heavily,” the Red Crescent said on X.
“Despite ongoing bombardment and gunfire, the medical teams at PRCS Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis persist in treating the wounded and patients,” it added.
“Today, the hospital received seven martyrs, including a PRCS employee, and attended to nine injuries. The siege and targeting have endured for the tenth consecutive day.”
Ambulance crews and civilians have recovered about 14 bodies of Palestinians after a partial retreat of Israeli vehicles from a Khan Younis refugee camp towards other areas inside the city, reported Al Jazeera
Footage obtained and verified by Al Jazeera shows the bodies arriving at Nasser Hospital to be prepared for burial.
They show funeral prayers being performed in the presence of distraught relatives in the hospital’s courtyard.
Here is a summary of the latest updates that Palestinian news agency Wafa has shared:
Dozens of Palestinians killed and wounded on the 118th day of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Several people killed and injured as Israeli forces struck the western region of Gaza City with missiles, gunfire and shelling specifically in the Remal neighbourhood and Tal al-Hawa. Ambulances were unable to reach them and transport the injured to al-Shifa Hospital.
Several Palestinians killed and wounded when Israeli jets bombed two houses in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Two Palestinians killed when Israeli aircraft bombed a residential house in the centre of the Gaza Strip.
One person was killed and several injured by Israeli bombing in the city of Deir el-Balah
Israeli forces continue to shell the al-Amal neighbourhood and the vicinity of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society for the eleventh day in a row.
Israeli forces shooting along the coastal areas.
“As the ICJ has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide,” US Federal Court Judge Jeffrey White said in a ruling to dismiss a civil case brought against US President Joe Biden and senior officials over their alleged “complicity” in genocide in Gaza.
Mohammed Monadel Herzallah, a plaintiff in the civil case, said: “We will continue to do everything in our power to save our people”.
Commanders in the Israeli military have in recent weeks begun instructing soldiers to set fire to residential homes in Gaza without the necessary legal approval, reports the Haaretz newspaper.
Soldiers have destroyed several hundred buildings this way, according to Haaretz, citing information provided by unnamed sources..
According to Israeli authorities, 1,139 Israelis were killed in southern Israel on 7 October by Hamas. 136 Israelis and foreign nationals are still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza
[Photo:Palestinian children queue for the food as they face extreme hunger in Rafah, Gaza on 1 2 24. Photojournalist: Abed Zagout /AA]
