'Israel' burns hospital in northern Gaza on 17th day of tight siege
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The Palestinian Health Ministry reiterates its call to all relevant institutions and bodies to protect healthcare facilities and workers from Israeli atrocities and crimes.
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Palestinian medics transport the body of a person killed in Israeli military operations in northern Gaza into al-Ahli Arab Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on October 21, 2024 (AFP)
The Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, particularly in the northern regions, which have witnessed Israeli massacres since the war began a year ago.
The occupation has renewed its brutal aggression in northern Gaza as part of a systematic plan to forcibly displace its residents and destroy all aspects of life and infrastructure, resulting in dozens of martyrs in recent days.
Israeli forces set fire to an Indonesian Hospital
Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces set fire to the Indonesian Hospital.
📹 ISRAELI FORCES TORCHED THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE INDONESIAN HOSPITAL IN BEIT LAHIYA IN THE NORTHERN GAZA STRIP - PALESTINIAN MEDIA.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health condemned the direct targeting of the hospital, reiterating its call to all relevant UN and international institutions and bodies to protect healthcare facilities and workers from the atrocities and crimes of the occupation, particularly in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, where genocide has been ongoing for 17 consecutive days.
Several killed in Israeli targeting of shelter
Our correspondent also confirmed that 10 people were killed and 30 others injured in Israeli artillery shelling that targeted a UNRWA shelter in the Jabalia refugee camp.
Additionally, three people were killed and several others were wounded due to the Israeli shelling of the al-Shawwa School, which shelters displaced people in Beit Hanoun.
⚡️JUST IN: Footage has surfaced capturing the Israeli massacre at Jabalia Preparatory School in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The distressing scenes were documented by a nurse who was among those forced to evacuate to Gaza City by Israeli occupation forces
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A woman was killed and two others were injured in the occupation’s shelling of a house in the al-Tawbah area of the Jabalia camp, while four were killed and several were injured in Israeli shelling near al-Yemen al-Saeed Hospital in the camp.
Furthermore, several martyrs and wounded were reported following an Israeli airstrike on a home in central Jabalia, according to our correspondent, who also reported injuries from an Israeli strike targeting a home near Abu Sharar Square in the Jabalia camp.
Al Mayadeen's correspondent added that Israeli tanks surrounded dozens of families near the al-Falouja cemetery.
'Israel' tightens siege on northern Gaza
In addition to targeting hospitals and shelters, the occupation continues its starvation war against northern Gaza, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid.
In this regard, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said that Israeli authorities "continue to deny humanitarian missions to reach the north with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege."
#Gaza: the Israeli Authorities continue to deny humanitarian missions to reach the north with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege.
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) October 21, 2024
Hospitals have been hit and are left without power while injured people are left without care.@UNRWA remaining…
"Denying and weaponizing humanitarian assistance to achieve military purposes is a sign of how low the moral compass is," he said in a post on X.
Lazzarini pointed out that "hospitals have been hit and are left without power while injured people are left without care."
"According to reports, people attempting to flee are getting killed, their bodies left on the street. Missions to rescue people from under the rubble are also being denied," he mentioned.
ICSPR calls for action to halt genocide
The International Commission to Support Palestinians Rights (ICSPR) issued a statement calling on "free people around the world" to take to the streets to pressure governments and international organizations to fulfill their ethical, legal, and humanitarian responsibilities in stopping the ongoing genocide.
ICSPR stressed the need to escalate official and popular action to end aggression, genocide, displacement, siege, and starvation. It called for the establishment of safe corridors for the flow of humanitarian and medical aid and the activation of accountability measures, boycotts, and sanctions on the Israeli occupation and its leaders.
The Commission said Israeli occupation forces are deliberately besieging northern Gaza, particularly the shelters, targeting, storming, burning, and destroying them, and forcibly displacing the evacuees to the southern regions under threat of arms.
ICSPR underlined that the Israeli occupation's plan in northern Gaza aims to create a new Nakba and empty the area.
It noted that for the 17th consecutive day, Israeli occupation forces have imposed a suffocating siege, starvation, and dehydration on 200,000 people in northern Gaza, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, obstructing the work of humanitarian organizations, and blocking fuel supplies necessary to operate water wells, communication services, and hospital generators, completing the systematic destruction of all aspects of life.
Israeli bombardment targets Gaza City and southern Gaza
The Israeli bombardment has affected other areas of Gaza as well, with Al Mayadeen's correspondent confirming that the death toll from a strike on the al-Zarqa area in eastern Gaza City has risen to nine, with several individuals reported missing.
Our correspondent also confirmed the martyrdom of two people in an Israeli strike on a home in the northwestern part of Gaza City.
In the southern part of Gaza, four martyrs were reported following an airstrike in Qizan al-Najjar, south of Khan Younis. The Israeli artillery also targeted the eastern region of Khan Younis.
Al Mayadeen's correspondent noted that the occupation targeted the tents of displaced people in the al-Muwasi area of Khan Younis.
Additionally, five martyrs were recovered after an Israeli airstrike hit the areas of al-Shaboura, Khirbet al-Adas, and Areeba in Rafah.
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