At least 25 people died on Tuesday in the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli attack on the Al Misry family home in the town of Beit Lahia, the Palestinian News Agency reported. Wafa. Medical sources cited by the Sawa agency report 30 deaths in the northern zone, among 44 deaths in the entire Palestinian enclave since dawn on Tuesday.
Israeli troops continue to strike northern Gaza by air and land, particularly the towns of Beit Lahia and Jabalia, which have remained surrounded by tanks for a month, during which more than 1,800 people have died and 4 000 were injured. in addition to many others who remain under the rubble of the attacked buildings and who could not be treated in hospitals and medical centers in the area, as reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health and emergency teams and ambulances.
The Israeli army reported in a statement Tuesday that its troops “eliminated dozens of terrorists in the Jabalia region during direct clashes and airstrikes, and dismantled terrorist infrastructure.”
This is the third time that Israel has punished northern Gaza, with bombings and ground operations, since the offensive against the Gaza Strip began about 13 months ago. On this occasion, the army began its operation in the north at the beginning of October, alleging that the Islamist group Hamas was reorganizing in this area, where its infrastructure had already been dismantled previously, as assured by Israel.
Furthermore, this Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that more than 100 patients in critical condition, including a third of them children, will be evacuated from Gaza in order to receive adequate treatment outside from the Gaza Strip. “Many of them suffer from serious trauma and many others from chronic illnesses,” explained the head of the WHO office in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn, quoted by the EFE agency.
According to Peeperkorn, the patients will be evacuated tomorrow morning in a large convoy through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Gaza and southern Israel, from where they will then travel to the United Arab Emirates and Romania, as part of the most major operation of this type from the beginning. of war in October 2023.
Peeperkorn recalled that another 12,000 critical patients must be evacuated from the Gaza Strip, many of whom are suffering from serious trauma such as amputations, wounds or burns, but also from chronic illnesses. Since Israel took control of the Rafah border crossing last May, only 282 patients have been taken out of Gaza by the WHO and other organizations for treatment in medical centers outside the Palestinian territory.
