Dozens of people were killed or injured in the early hours of Saturday due to continued Israeli bombardment on most of the Gaza Strip, which kept communications cut off for the third consecutive day.
At least 14 people were killed in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, and dozens were injured in a bombing of a house, while “a large number” of people were trapped under rubble, the official Palestinian news agency reported. Wafa.
“A young man was also killed in the Tal al-Zaatar area of northern Gaza after an Israeli sniper shot him inside his house,” the agency added.
The siege of Beit Lahia’s Kamal Adwan Hospital – one of the few functioning medical facilities in the north of the enclave – continues for the eighth consecutive day, causing serious shortages of food and water.
“The occupation forces ordered all medical personnel, the wounded and those present to leave the site and gather in their yards in the cold, while 12 babies are kept in incubators without water, food or medical care,” Wafa reported. based on eyewitness accounts. .
“The forces also destroyed the southern part of the hospital and continue to attack everyone who goes there,” he added.
In recent hours, bombings were also reported near the al-Mazra school, in Deir al-Balah, and the Bureij refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip. In the south, the neighborhoods of Khan Younis and Rafah were attacked, in the far south, an area supposedly declared a “humanitarian zone” secured by Israeli troops.
“The occupation warships also opened fire with heavy machine guns off the coast of the southern province of Rafah,” Wafa said.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqa, who died on Friday after a UNRWA school in Rafah was bombed and he bled to death after hours of waiting for an ambulance, to which Israeli troops denied permission. access to the area. said the network.
“We will continue to carry out our work as journalists with professionalism and transparency,” said Wael Dahdouh, director of Al Jazeera in the Gaza Strip, who survived the attack that killed Daqa and lost his entire family, wife and children weeks ago. , in a “deliberate” Israeli attack on his home in Gaza City a few weeks ago, he said at the funeral.
With Daqa, 64 Palestinian journalists and media workers were killed in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli offensive, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
In addition, the suburbs of Gaza City, such as Shujaiya, Tuffah and Daraj, considered Hamas strongholds, were also bombed from the air, while intense fighting took place on the ground.
After 71 days of offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army committed more than 1,800 massacres, in which more than 18,800 Gazans died – among them 8,000 children and 6,200 women -, an estimated 7,500 bodies are still trapped under the rubble and More than 51,000 people were injured, according to the latest data from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health.
However, these figures may be higher due to the difficulties of the ministry in contacting hospitals and local governments to update the data, a situation aggravated by the fifth total interruption of internet and communications since the beginning of the ground offensive in the enclave and that It continues today for the third day.
Source: TSF
