Inmates of Gaza hospital leave as Israel strikes enclave’s north, south
Patients, staff and displaced people exit Shifa hospital, leaving behind only Israeli forces and a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move; dozens killed as Israeli airstrikes hit UN refugee camp in Jabaliya; Internet, phone services restored atients, staff and displaced people departed Gaza’s largest hospital on Saturday, health officials said, leaving behind only Israeli forces and a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.
The exodus in Gaza City came the same day Internet and phone service was restored to the Gaza Strip, ending a telecommunications blackout that forced the United Nations to shut down critical humanitarian aid deliveries because it was unable to coordinate its convoys.
Dozens of people were killed in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp on Saturday when what witnesses de
PPalestinians check the bodies of people killed by Israeli airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
scribed as an Israeli airstrike hit a crowded UN shelter in the main combat zone of northern Gaza. It caused massive destruction in the camp’s Fakhoura school, with dozens of people were seen lying mo
APtionless, said Ahmed Radwan and Yassin Sharif.
‘Horrifying scenes’
“The scenes were horrifying. Corpses of women and children were on the ground. Others were
screaming for help,” Mr. Radwan said by phone.
The Israeli military, which had warned Jabaliya residents and others in a social media post in Arabic to leave, had no immediate comment. It rarely comments on individual strikes, saying only that it targets Hamas while trying to minimise harm to civilians.
“Receiving horrifying images & footage of scores of people killed and injured in another UNRWA school sheltering thousands of displaced in the north of the Gaza Strip. These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait any longer,” Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN agency for Pales
tinian refugees,
WA, said on ◣,
Twitter.
Attacks also continued in southern Gaza. An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis, killing at least 26 Palestinians.
Rising toll
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More than 11,500 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to Palestinian health authorities. Another 2,700 have been reported missing, believed buried under rubble. The count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but more than twothirds of those killed were women and children; Israel says it has killed thousands of militants.