Hospital director says employees and sufferers had been injured in Israeli assaults on the final partially practical hospital in northern Gaza.
At the least 12 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, medics mentioned, as Israeli forces proceed their siege and floor assault on the northern a part of the Palestinian territory.
Gaza docs informed the Reuters information company on Monday that not less than seven folks had been killed in an assault within the northern Gaza metropolis of Beit Lahiya.
5 different folks had been killed in assaults in central and southern Gaza.
The Palestinian Well being Ministry in Gaza mentioned Kamal Adwan Hospital, the final partially functioning hospital within the north of the enclave, was beneath assault by Israeli forces.
“At the moment, the occupation forces proceed to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital, focusing on all components of the hospital,” the ministry mentioned.
The hospital’s director, Hossam Abu Safieh, mentioned in an announcement that the scenario was “catastrophic” and that “the military didn’t contact the hospital earlier than attacking it straight.”
“A number of members of our employees have been injured and we can’t depart the hospital,” he mentioned.
“We don’t perceive the aim behind this bombing directed on the hospital.”
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, mentioned that is the second time in latest weeks that the hospital has been attacked.
“The hospital not features as a well being middle. It’s extra about accommodating the wounded and the lifeless who’re delivered to the hospital,” Mahmoud mentioned.
“All the northern a part of the strip is left with none correct well being middle, the complete well being system has disappeared, it’s fully collapsing… and civilians are left with none correct entry to that,” he added.
Israel’s navy started a siege and floor assault in northern Gaza on October 5 in what it mentioned was an operation to stop Hamas fighters from regrouping there.
Palestinians say the brand new offensives and orders for folks to go away had been aimed toward emptying two northern Gaza cities and a refugee camp to create buffer zones. Israel denies it.
Since Israel launched its battle towards Gaza in October 2023, not less than 43,374 folks have been killed within the enclave and one other 102,261 have been injured, in response to 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 response to an Al Jazeera rely based mostly on Israeli statistics, and round 250 extra had been taken hostage.
“Indescribable struggling”
Earlier on Monday, Israel introduced that it had knowledgeable the United Nations that it could finish its relations with the UN Palestinian Refugee Company (UNRWA), regardless of worldwide calls in regards to the significance of the UN company within the provision of assist.
UNRWA Commissioner-Basic Philippe Lazzarini mentioned that along with banning the company, Israel had additionally decreased the entry of assist vehicles into Gaza to a mean of 30 vehicles per day, which “can’t meet the wants of two million folks”.
“Proscribing humanitarian entry whereas dismantling UNRWA will add an extra layer of struggling to already unspeakable struggling,” Lazzarini mentioned.
An Israeli authorities spokesman mentioned no restrict had been positioned on assist coming into Gaza, and 47 assist vehicles entered northern Gaza on Sunday.
