This morning, the Israeli army killed at least 16 Gazans, including a family of nine, in the north and center of the Gaza Strip, where there have already been nearly 42,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.
According to doctors from the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency teams, the family was massacred in the bombing of two houses, near the local market, in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, north of country.
Meanwhile, in the central area of the Nuseirat refugee camp, medics confirmed recovering three dead bodies, including that of a child, during another militant bombing of a residence. According to Wafa, the victims were transported to Al Awda Hospital in the area.
In addition, in the early hours of dawn, four more people died, including at least one child, after an air attack on the Al Bureij camp (center), an area that the Israeli army ordered to evacuate four days ago due to rising temperatures. floods.
Since Sunday, the Israeli army has hit hard the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, where it says the Islamist group Hamas is rebuilding its military capabilities.
But once again, the targets are civilian infrastructure – last night, one of the few bakeries in the neighborhood was attacked – and the residents themselves who have returned in recent months.
The UN Secretary General denounced the fact that the 400,000 people who were in this area were forced to move again towards the south of Gaza, where the majority of the more than 2 million inhabitants are concentrated.
The population of the northern Gaza Strip had already been expelled by the Israeli army at the start of the war, which marked its first anniversary this week. The army claimed several months ago to have eliminated the presence of Hamas in the northernmost areas, which suffered great devastation.
As of Tuesday evening, the three main hospitals in the north received evacuation orders, according to local authorities, and hundreds of patients are in danger because they cannot be transferred. The Gaza government has warned that the horrors experienced at Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza City could be repeated in these hospitals.
“With threatening language… they officially informed us that we had to evacuate the hospital within 24 hours of all the injured and sick as well as all the medical staff,” the hospital director said on Tuesday , Kamal Adwan, Husam Abu Safieh, to several media. points of sale, before specifying that they demanded that the center be completely empty on Wednesday.
Local sources also report the presence of dozens of bodies scattered in the streets of the Yabalia camp (north), against a backdrop of escalating artillery bombardments and a tank incursion which keeps the town of the same name surrounded .
For its part, the Qatari channel Al Jazeera, expelled from Israel by the government, assured that one of its cameramen in Gaza, Ali al Attar, 27, was seriously injured after an Israeli bombardment hit the Al Martyrs Hospital. Aqsa, in the center of the strip.
The young cameraman was hit by a shrapnel in the head while he was at the hospital, where he worked because there was electricity. Since the start of the war a year ago, 176 media workers have been killed, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza government.
