Israel continued increasing its pressure on northern Gaza this Friday, by raiding one of the few hospitals still operational, trapping more than 150 patients and medical staffafter bombing the Yabalia refugee camp this Thursday night, on a day in which the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a proposal for a new round of negotiations that could include a definitive ceasefire in Gaza.
Others 81 people died this Friday in Israeli attacks on the Strip, including 42 people in the north, according to Wafa, while the Israeli Army confirmed the deaths of three soldiers in fighting in northern Gaza.
The Israeli Army entered the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia and forced patients to move to the central patio after shooting at him the day before with tanks and destroying an oxygen station, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The Indonesian hospital, Beit Lahia, is closed due to Israeli attacks, while Kamal Adwan, in the same city, and Al Awda, within the Jabalia refugee camp, They are barely functioning and on the verge of collapsein the face of the Israeli siege in the north of the Strip, which reached its 21st day this Friday with a toll of more than 770 dead and thousands of people displaced, according to the Gazan Government.
A catastrophic situation
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave, governed by the Islamist group Hamas, denounced that the situation in the center “is catastrophic in every sense of the word,” and said that hundreds of patients, medical personnel and displaced people are detained by forces without food or medicine.
The Israeli Army confirmed to be operating inside the center, one of the few that still functioned in the battered north of the Strip, and said that in recent weeks it has facilitated the evacuation of patients.
Gazan Civil Defense warned that emergency medical services have been suspended in the north of the enclave in the face of the harsh Israeli offensive, which “keeps the main hospitals under siege and directly attacks ambulances and rescue teams” for three weeks.
Citizens face great difficulties in transporting the dead and wounded due to Israel’s interruption of emergency medical and Civil Defense services in the northern Gaza Strip, he indicated.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stated this Friday that The conflict in Gaza is experiencing “its darkest moments” by Israel’s current offensives in the north of the Strip, where the civilian population is being subjected to bombings and sieges.
“The Israeli Army It is attacking hospitals, health personnel and patients who die, are injured or have to be evacuated. There are also attacks on schools converted into shelters, communication with the outside world remains very limited and journalists continue to be murdered,” Türk said in a statement.
A new round of negotiations in Qatar
Israel presented the mediation teams from Egypt, Qatar and the United States a new truce proposal in the Gaza Strip before the start of a renewed round of negotiations that will take place in Doha on Sunday, sources close to the talks informed EFE.
According to the informants, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, this plan – which has yet to be discussed and presented to the Islamist group Hamas – includes three phases and a possible permanent cessation of the military campaign of Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The first stage stipulates a temporary ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Rafah crossing, that connects Gaza with Egypt, as well as the release of all living hostages held by Hamas in exchange for the release of a group of Palestinian prisoners in prisons of the Jewish State.
Journalists killed in Lebanon
Meanwhile, in Lebanon, three journalists covering the Israeli offensive died this Friday in an alleged bombing by the Israeli Army against his residence in the Lebanese city of Hasbaya, in the south of the country, according to the Al Jazeera network and the Lebanese National News Agency.
Al Jazeera reported that, around 4:00 a.m. local time (01:00 GMT), a bombing hit the residence housing journalists in Hasbaya, killing two cameramen and a technician.
For its part, the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) denounced this Friday that on October 22, a group of Israeli soldiers They “shot” at a blue helmet observation post in the village of Dhayra, in the south.
Israeli emergency services reported that at least two people were killed and seven others injured after the launch of about thirty rockets from Lebanon against northern Israel.
The Israeli Army also confirmed the death of five other reservist soldiers in fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, after reporting this Thursday the death of four reservists and a soldier from a canine brigade.
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