Gaza.. 46 martyrs in new massacres and the occupation army tightens the siege on hospitals

Al Jazeera quoted medical sources as saying that 46 Palestinians were killed in separate raids by the Israeli occupation army on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 31 of them in the north of the Strip, while the siege on hospitals continues in the north and south.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation committed 6 massacres in the Strip, 51 martyrs and 78 wounded people arrived at hospitals within 24 hours.

It reported that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression has risen to 45,936 martyrs and 109,274 wounded since October 7, 2023.

This Wednesday afternoon, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that 4 Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment of a school housing displaced people in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.

The Civil Defense Authority also reported in a statement that it had recovered the bodies of 5 martyrs and a number of wounded, as a result of the occupation forces targeting a group of Palestinians near the gate of the Gaza Municipality Park on Omar Al-Mukhtar Street.

Hospital status

On the health front, the director of Al-Awda Hospital (northern Gaza Strip) told Al Jazeera that Israeli occupation forces are besieging the hospital and firing randomly.

In turn, Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis announced the suspension of health services, with the exception of intensive care and operations departments, due to the fuel crisis, and warned of a humanitarian and health disaster that could lead to the death of patients from suffocation in the intensive care unit.

Nasser Hospital also appealed to international institutions to urgently intervene to bring in fuel to ensure the continuity of medical services.

In this context, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced the documentation of 136 raids on 39 medical facilities in Gaza between October 2023 and June 2024, stressing that the deliberate destruction of medical facilities may amount to collective punishment that constitutes a war crime.

For his part, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, confirmed that more than 12,000 people in Gaza still need medical evacuations, adding that the organization continues to urge Israel to increase the rate of approvals for medical evacuations.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, with American military support and in full view of the entire world, which has resulted in more than 155,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and worsening famine.

Source: Al Jazeera