The Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling of civilian areas in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 200 Palestinians, mostly children, and wounding hundreds in several parts of the coastal region.
The Israeli bombing and shelling were mainly focused on a number of areas in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, Rafah and Khan Younis, in the southern parts of the Gaza Strip, and the areas of Central Gaza.
The Israeli army carried out more than 74 airstrikes in just a few hours, mainly focused on areas in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli attacks led to at least 151 deaths and 3013 injuries in just a few hours at dawn, especially in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
In Jabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles struck an entire residential block, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, especially women and children.
In Rafah, Israeli missiles and shells killed more than 25 Palestinians, including a journalist, identified as Adel Zo’rob, in addition to many children and women in three homes for the Zo’rob family (where 14 Palestinians were killed), Atiya family where eighty were killed, and Abdul-Al family where at least three Palestinians were killed, in addition to the dozens of injuries in the bombarded homes.
The killing of Adel Zo’rob brings the number of slain journalists by Israeli missiles and shells to 94 after the army killed Monday, a female journalist Hanin Al-Qashtan.
Five Palestinian siblings, all children from the Abu Ghazal family and a fifth child who remained unidentified, were killed by an Israeli missile in the Al-Hasayna area, west of the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza have confirmed received the mutilated remains of many slain Palestinians, mostly children.
Dozens of Palestinians were also killed and injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, and in areas north and east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal enclave.
In the Al-Boreij refugee and the Nusseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, the army fired missiles at homes and buildings, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including at least five children whose corpses were severely mutilated.
Sources at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City said at least four patients and wounded Palestinians have died in the medical facility due to the lack of medical supplies and the ongoing Israeli military invasion of the hospital for the second day.
They added that the Israeli soldiers abducted at least 150 Palestinians from the hospital, said the abductees were families of patients, and stated that the soldiers also forced all wounded Palestinians out in the cold before abducting two doctors.
The soldiers also surrounded the hospital, preventing ambulances from entering or leaving it, while more Israeli tanks and armored vehicles continued their deployment around it, especially in Palestine Square.
Furthermore, the Al-Awda Health and Community Association in northern Gaza stated that the Israeli army invaded on Monday its hospital and abducted five workers, including the head of the hospital, Ahmad Muhanna, in addition to a patient and a member of his family.
It called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and all related organizations to intervene and ensure the constant entry of all needed medical supplies, fuel, food, and water as the Israeli army continued the siege it imposed on the hospital two weeks ago.
The Association stated that the army is besieging 240 Palestinians in Al-Awda Hospital, which lacks water, food, and medicine, and added that the Israeli soldiers have turned the medical facility into a military base.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated that Al-Awda Hospital is facing a serious humanitarian disaster and called on the United Nations, all international human rights, and legal groups to intervene and ensure the safety of all medical facilities, ambulances, and medical workers and to ensure they receive all needed supplies.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least 19.453 Palestinians and injured 52.286, since October 7, and added that most of the casualties are women and children.
