Hospital director says workers and sufferers had been wounded in Israeli assaults on the final partially functioning hospital in northern Gaza.
At the least 12 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, medics stated, as Israeli forces proceed to press their siege and floor assault on the northern a part of the Palestinian territory.
Medics in Gaza instructed the Reuters information company on Monday not less than seven folks had been killed in an assault on the north Gaza metropolis of Beit Lahiya.
5 others had been killed in assaults in central and southern Gaza.
The Palestinian Ministry of Well being in Gaza stated that the Kamal Adwan Hospital, the final partially functioning hospital within the north of the enclave, was being attacked by Israeli forces.
“At this second, occupation forces are persevering with to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital, focusing on all elements of the hospital,” the ministry stated.
Hospital director Hossam Abu Safieh stated in a press release that the state of affairs was “catastrophic”, and that “the military didn’t contact the hospital earlier than instantly focusing on it”.
“A number of of our workers have been injured, and we’re unable to depart the hospital,” he stated.
“We don’t perceive the aim behind this bombing that’s focusing on the hospital.”
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud stated that is the second time in current weeks that the hospital had been attacked.
“The hospital doesn’t function as a well being facility now. It’s extra of accommodating accidents and the lifeless who’re delivered to the hospital,” Mahmoud stated.
“All the northern a part of the strip is left with none correct healthcare facility, the entire healthcare system is gone, is totally collapsing … and civilians are left with none correct entry to that,” he added.
Israel’s army started a siege and floor assault on northern Gaza on October 5 in what it stated was an operation to forestall Hamas fighters from regrouping there.
Palestinians say the brand new offensives and orders for folks to depart had been aimed toward emptying two northern Gaza cities and a refugee camp to create buffer zones. Israel denies this.
Since Israel launched its warfare on Gaza in October 2023, not less than 43,374 folks have been killed within the enclave, and 102,261 others wounded, in keeping with Palestinian well being authorities.
The Israeli assault got here in response to the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 2023, wherein not less than 1,139 folks had been killed, in keeping with an Al Jazeera tally based mostly on Israeli statistics, and round 250 others had been seized as hostages.
‘Unspeakable struggling’
Earlier on Monday, Israel introduced that it had knowledgeable the United Nations it was ending its relations with the UN Company for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), regardless of worldwide requires the significance of the UN company in offering assist.
UNRWA Commissioner-Common Philippe Lazzarini stated that together with banning the company, Israel had additionally scaled again the entry of assist vans into Gaza to a median of 30 vans a day, which “can’t meet the wants of two million folks.”
“Limiting humanitarian entry and on the identical time dismantling UNRWA will add a further layer of struggling to already unspeakable struggling,” Lazzarini stated.
An Israeli authorities spokesperson stated no restrict had been imposed on assist getting into Gaza, with 47 assist vans getting into northern Gaza on Sunday.
