The Gaza Ministry of Health has reported that a wave of Israeli attacks launched last night against a residential area of Khan Younis, south of Gaza, has already left 38 dead and dozens injured, “most of them women and children.”
14 of the deceased belong to the same family, according to the Sawa news agency. Videos of the attack have circulated on social networks in which several dead children are seen.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Army raided the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia (northern Gaza) this Friday, where there are more than a hundred people trapped, and asked the patients to move to the central courtyard, according to the official news agency. Palestinian news, Wafa.
On Thursday afternoon, Israeli tanks fired on the hospital and destroyed an oxygen station, Al Jazeera reported. “Civil Defense vehicles have been directly attacked, and the only ambulance left in the north has been destroyed by Israeli artillery,” said Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal.
The Kamal Adwan is one of the few centers still operational in the north of the Strip, where three weeks of harsh Israeli offensive have left more than 700 dead and thousands of people displaced, according to data from the Gazan authorities.
For their part, on Thursday Gaza authorities estimated that a new round of Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip caused around 150 deaths, although rescue services were unable to access the area. before the siege of Israeli troops.
“A horrible massacre is currently occurring in the Al-Hawaja Street area of Jabalia, with reports of more than 150 martyrs, wounded and no one to intervene to save them,” said Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmud. Basal.
Israeli forces blew up 11 houses in the residential area of al Hawaja, within the Jabalia refugee camp, causing a “great massacre,” said the Civil Defense, which received numerous distress calls.
“Citizens are facing great difficulties in transporting the dead and injured due to the Israeli occupation’s disruption of emergency medical and Civil Defense services in the northern Gaza Strip,” Basal said.
The Israeli offensive leaves almost 43,000 dead in just over a year, to which must be added thousands missing under the rubble.
Murder of three journalists in Lebanon
The Lebanese Government has described this Friday as a “war crime” the murder of three journalists in an attack by Israel against a residence in Hasbaya, in the southeast of Lebanon, where three other reporters were also injured by the bombing.
“This is a war crime,” the Lebanese Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, wrote on his X account, denouncing that “the Israeli enemy waited for the journalists to rest at night to betray them while they were sleeping” and accused the Israeli State to murder them “in a premeditated manner.”
Likewise, the minister has identified the victims as Ghasan Nayar, Mohamed Reda and Wisam Qasem, all of them workers at the Lebanese television channels Al Mayadeen and Al Manar.
The attacked residence housed another 18 journalists from seven Lebanese and Arab media outlets, and he recalled that “during the last few months they did not stop covering the news on the ground and transmitting it to reveal the crimes” committed by Israel in the Mediterranean country.
The Lebanese Press Editors’ Union has condemned in a statement “the horrible massacre committed by Israel in Hasbaya by attacking three media professionals in their residence” and recalled that six others have died in “brutal raids” against the Lebanon.
“What (Israel) has committed is a war crime with all the specifications and standards,” denounced the union, which asks countries and human rights organizations “not to remain silent in the face of this flagrant and repeated violation of norms.” international”.
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