On Thursday, day 412 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire Palestinian population (which has expanded in recent months to the West Bank and Lebanon as well), Israeli forces launched a pre-dawn airstrike with a US-funded 2,000-pound bomb on an entire residential block in Beit Lahia, killing at least 66 civilians and wounded over 100.
Most of the people killed were children and women. The pre-dawn massacre follows a very violent day on Wednesday as well, in which Israeli forces killed over 60 people in three separate massacres in different parts of Gaza.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed an entire residential block in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of 66 citizens and the injury of more than 100 others.
Medical sources from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, said that the medical staff at the hospital are pulling the bodies out from under the rubble at the site of the massacre with their own hands due to the lack of rescue crews.
The sources explained that serious cases are being transported on shoulders to the hospital to be dealt with, in light of the difficult and deteriorating health situation, as there are no ambulances or even stretchers left.
The lack of supplies is a result of the repeated targeting by the Israeli occupation and the siege imposed on northern Gaza.
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of houses around Kamal Adwan Hospital were leveled to the ground and dozens of other houses were severely damaged by the occupation’s destructive bombing. These houses belong to the Al-Madhoun, Khader, Abu Wadi, Shaqoura and Nassar families.
Medical sources indicated that there are no specialized surgeries in the hospital due to the occupation forces preventing the entry of new medical teams, and that the current teams provide first aid only to those cases not requiring extensive surgery.
In war-torn #Gaza, children are denied their most basic rights.
This #WorldChildrensDay all 7-year-old Khadija wishes for is peace. Hear her song.#CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/n4Icr9uBKp
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The sources added that the hospital will turn into a mass grave if international institutions do not intervene urgently and provide medical supplies.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that Israeli forces committed a new massacre in the northern Gaza Governorate.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, stated that medical staff at the hospital are retrieving and treating the wounded due to the lack of ambulances.
He added that there are 200 people at the massacre site, with a large number of martyrs, injuries, and missing persons still under the rubble. He emphasized that the health system in northern Gaza is collapsing and unable to provide any assistance, and all their appeals to the world are in vain.
⚡️BREAKING: Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya:
Our medical staff at the hospital is rescuing and treating the injured due to the lack of ambulances.
There are 200 people at the site of the massacre, with a very large number of martyrs, injuries, and… pic.twitter.com/QFueUKWiAN
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) November 20, 2024
In a separate Israeli airstrike, two Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Thursday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a group of citizens in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli war of extermination and the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip for the past 412 days has resulted in the killing of 43,985 Palestinians, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injury of 104,092 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.
