At least 20 people were killed and another 150 injured in an attack on civilians who were lined up waiting in Gaza City, in the north of the enclave.humanitarian aid“.
“The Israeli occupation carried out a new massacre of thousands of hungry people waiting for humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City,” he reported Ashraf al QudraSpeaker of Gaza Ministry of Healthcontrolled by Hamas.
Al-Qudra warned that the death toll would rise in the coming hours given “the dozens.” seriously injured They arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital, which operates in minimal conditions and does not have sufficient medical capacity to treat them, after they were besieged and attacked by Israeli troops in November.
Accordingly United Nations Agency for the Palestinian refugeesAfter yesterday's attack with two tank shells on a UN refugee shelter in the southern Gaza Strip, which killed more than 75 more people, two more people were killed this Thursday, bringing the death toll to 12. Injuries.
Thomas WhiteA senior UNRWA official reported in the same statement that 15 of the injured in “critical condition“, while the Israeli army ruled out that its men were responsible and said it was investigating the events.
The Israeli army has concentrated its offensive
The animal shelter housed approx 800 Palestinians Displaced people in the southern town of Khan Yunis, where there has been heavy fighting in recent days, especially in the western part where the Israeli army has concentrated its offensive.
“Yesterday afternoon, the United Nations finally managed to reach the affected areas to treat wounded patients, bring medical supplies and evacuate the wounded to Rafah,” continued White, who denounced the blockade of previous assessment missions.
The Undersecretary of State for his part Gaza Ministry of HealthYoussef Abu Al Rish, assured today that he is coordinating with the International Committee of the Red Cross the delivery of medicines, food and fuel to the hospitals in Khan Younis, as well as visits to medical personnel detained by Israel.
The firing of projectiles and burning of the center came two days after an initial attack on UNRWA facilities that left at least six displaced people dead following “intense fighting around the shelter,” according to the agency.
“The intense fights close to the rest of the hospitals in Khan Yunis, including (the hospitals of) Wet And Al Amal“They have surrounded these facilities and left the staff, patients and displaced people trapped inside in fear and terror,” White denounced today.
Hospital patients were evacuated in the middle of the night
Al-Khair Hospital, also in Khan Younis, had to close its operations after patients, “including women who had just undergone surgery.” Caesarean section“were evacuated in the middle of the night, UNRWA said.
The official Wafa news agency also reported Israeli bombings middle of the stripparticularly in the Bureij refugee camp, where at least two people died in a “deliberate attack on a group of gathered residents.”
The war between Israel and Hamas It came on October 7 after an attack by the Islamist group that killed around 1,200 people. Since then, the Israeli army has continued a strong offensive by air, land and sea, which has already killed more than 25,700 Gazans (including more than 10,000 children) and injured 63,740.