On Sunday, Israeli strikes left at least 40 dead in the Gaza Strip, according to local Civil Defense. Among the victims were an Al Jazeera journalist and three rescue workers.
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Gaza Civil Defense said on Sunday that Israeli strikes on Sunday in different places in the Gaza Strip left at least 40 people dead. Among them is an Al Jazeera journalist and three rescue workers.
The Qatari channel said its cameraman had been killed “in an Israeli bombardment” on the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the center of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said rescuers found 18 bodies before dawn, while dozens of people were injured.
The dead included four people killed in a bombing of a house in central Gaza City. Four others were killed and eight injured in a strike on a tent housing dozens of displaced people in Deir el-Balah, a town in the center of the Palestinian territory, according to the same source.
Bassal said at least three children were among the dead.
A school was targeted
In the evening, the spokesperson told theAFP that another strike targeting the Ahmed bin Abdoul Aziz school in Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, had left more than 12 dead, including children, and 35 injured.
He also said six people were killed in a strike on a house in Al-Shoujaiya, east of Gaza City.
Contacted byAFP regarding the various strikes, the Israeli army confirmed in a statement on Sunday that it had carried out strikes on the areas of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia.
“In Beit Lahia, Israeli troops eliminated terrorists and located and dismantled large quantities of weapons, including explosives and dozens of grenades,” the statement said.
In another statement, the army reported targeting a clinic in northern Gaza, saying it was used by Hamas fighters as a “command and control center” as well as a weapons storage site.
The medical system is in danger
Bassal confirmed the death of the Al Jazeera journalist in the strike on the Nusseirat camp, which also cost the lives of three Civil Defense rescuers. This is the fifth Al Jazeera journalist killed since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The army, for its part, claimed that this journalist had been a commander of Islamic Jihad in this area.
The Israeli army has been carrying out military operations in the north of the Gaza Strip for several weeks, the objective of which it believes is to prevent the regrouping of Hamas fighters. The army claims to have eliminated dozens of “terrorists” there.
The fighting has also caused casualties among healthcare workers, further worsening the situation of the health system in the Gaza Strip. plunged into a serious humanitarian crisis after more than fourteen months of war.
“We are suffering from a shortage of medical personnel due to the targeting and martyrdom of a large number of doctors and nurses,” Hossam Abou Safiyeh, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north, told reporters. from the Gaza Strip.
He said airstrikes and artillery continued to target the hospital and surrounding areasexacerbating the crisis and endangering both patients and medical staff.
The Israeli army denied directly targeting the hospital. (tib/ats)
