22/12/2024–|Last updated: 12/22/202406:55 AM (Mecca time)
18 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured early Sunday morning as a result of an Israeli air strike targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to genocide that has been going on for 14 months.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that 8 Palestinians were killed and others injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a school housing displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
In Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, 6 Palestinians were killed in a bombing that targeted a house. Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that the search is continuing for missing persons under the rubble of the targeted 4-storey house, noting that the building was housing a large number of displaced people.
Also in the central region, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that an Israeli bombing targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the death of 4 people.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli occupation army requested the immediate evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Al Jazeera obtained special scenes showing the accumulation of wounded women and children in one of the hospital corridors, after all the hospital rooms and departments were exposed to gunfire and artillery shelling from Israeli vehicles penetrating the vicinity of the hospital in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip.
Pictures showed that the occupation forces opened fire directly towards the hospital, where there were dozens of medical personnel, wounded and sick children and women inside the hospital.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, said that the Israeli occupation is bombing the hospital directly and without warning, noting that the occupation requested the hospital to be evacuated within hours. Abu Safiya held the international community responsible for what the occupation forces are committing in Gaza.
For his part, the Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, announced that the hospital’s situation was “catastrophic” as it was subjected to an “unprecedented” Israeli attack, adding that the occupation targeted the hospital with sniper fire and shelling from tanks at its various departments.
Since last October, the occupation has continued to target the hospital, resulting in martyrs and injuries among patients and members of medical staff, in addition to causing significant damage to it.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving nearly 153,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly.
Tel Aviv continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians in Gaza.