'Israel' attacks hospitals in Gaza, commits new massacres

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies + Al Mayadeen
9 Oct 2024 11:16

The bodies of dozens of martyrs have been retrieved from the streets of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, while the IOF prevented rescue teams from reaching the area.

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A Palestinian mother mourns her child killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Wednesday, October 2, 2024. (AP)

For the 369th consecutive day, the Israeli war machine relentlessly persists in its brutality, with tens of thousands of civilians killed throughout the Gaza Strip since October 7 last year.

In a related context, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported that 12 people were martyred, including nine members of the same family, in Israeli airstrikes that targeted two homes in the al-Shujaiyah neighborhood of eastern Gaza City.

Additionally, the bodies of dozens of martyrs were retrieved from the streets of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, while Israeli invading forces prevented rescue teams from reaching the area.

Explosions from Israeli artillery echoed in various neighborhoods of Gaza City, coinciding with gunfire from Israeli drones in the Al-Tuwam area in the northwest and around Al-Sikka Street in the southeast.

Our correspondent also reported that three martyrs were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering forcibly displaced people west of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A child bids farewell to his father who was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted their tent in Nusairat refugee camp, central Gaza. pic.twitter.com/j3RZRQ6i53
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) October 9, 2024

In the early hours of the morning, the bodies of four martyrs, including a child, were recovered from the rubble of a house in the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip following an airstrike.

Meanwhile, "Israel" continues to bomb Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. This comes shortly after the Israeli occupation entity threatened three hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate all medical personnel, patients, and displaced individuals and families, as it continues its savage onslaught that particularly targets the most vulnerable.

'Israel' threatens 3 north Gaza hospitals: Evacuation or bombardment

Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and the Indonesian Hospitals in northern Gaza, which shelter and treat at least 700,000 Palestinians, including thousands of critical patients and an overwhelming number of women, children, and elderly, have received threatening calls from the Israeli occupation forces to evacuate the premises.

Should they remain on hospital grounds, the IOF warned that all individuals would be direct targets and under Israeli bombardment.

The Israeli occupation military has declared northern Gaza a military zone, intensifying its bombardment and invasion of its towns. Last month, Israeli Minister of Diaspora, Amichai Chikli, proposed a plan for the occupation of areas in the northern Gaza Strip and the ethnic cleansing of its residents.

Chikli proposed the establishment of another corridor extending from the northeastern line separating '48 Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories from the Gaza Strip toward the northeast coast of the Gaza Strip.

In current terms, this would include two large Palestinian towns, which are Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia.

According to statistics released in 2017, nearly 89,838 Palestinians resided in Beit Lahia while another 52,237 resided in Beit Hanoun.

Carte blanche for execution

Gaza's Government Media Office issued a statement revealing that the Israeli occupation has begun besieging Kamal Adwan Hospital, targeting its administration with direct fire. It blocked all fuel from arriving at its premises, jeopardizing its operations.

Expressing its utmost rejection of the systematic Israeli destruction of the healthcare sector in Gaza, the Media Office urged the international community to immediately mobilize and protect the northern district's main hospitals, before the scenario of Al-Shifa Medical Complex is repeated, and everyone inside, be it medical personnel, civilians, and patients, are executed.

I am Dr. Ezzideen, working at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. For the past two days, the road to the hospital has been blocked, and we haven’t been able to reach it. Today, the hospital was threatened with evacuation, or it will be bombed. Many of my fellow doctors are…
— Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzingaza) October 8, 2024

The United States and the Israeli occupation are held responsible for the destruction of the Gazan healthcare sector.

Hamas slammed the evacuations and warnings as a blatant violation of international laws and a criminal attempt to implement the displacement plans pursued by the fascist occupation government.

"This terrorist threat to the hospitals, and the demand to evacuate them under the pressure of bombardment, aggression, and direct targeting, amounts to a death sentence for the thousands of patients and wounded within them, including women, the elderly, and children."

However, Hamas affirmed that the people and Resistance of Gaza will remain steadfast and continue fighting off the occupiers despite and in spite of the continued aggression against the Strip's shelters, homes, and hospitals, reiterating the Palestinian right to self-determination and liberation.