AT least 40 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, including at least 10 displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp and 15 in Gaza City.
Israeli forces are destroying “infrastructure, residential houses, buildings, neighbourhoods, which is making it difficult for medical teams to reach injured people and those trapped under the rubble”, according to our team on the ground.
Two-and-a-half-month-old Eid Mahmoud Abu Jamma has died of malnutrition and lack of treatment in Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army shelled al-Helou Hospital in Gaza City, hitting the facility with two artillery rounds, according to medical sources cited by Wafa news agency.
The hospital’s departments include a cancer ward and a neonatal unit where 12 premature babies are being cared for.
Medical staff told Wafa that more than 90 people – doctors, nurses, and patients remain trapped inside the hospital. Israeli tanks have surrounded the facility, blocking both entry and exit.
The attack is the latest in a series of strikes on Gaza’s already decimated healthcare system, where hospitals continue to be besieged, targeted and deprived of essential medical supplies.
Also, Israeli soldiers stormed the Aclaí Palestine Gym in the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in the middle of a youth training session.
Armed soldiers ordered the coach and trainees to evacuate on Saturday evening, pressing them about who owned the facility and what activities took place inside, according to a post by the gym.
An Irish activist who helped establish the gym described the raid as part of a wider incursion into Aida camp.
“The [Israeli army] came into the gym as part of an invasion. They were looking for someone they wanted to arrest,” he told Al Jazeera. “It was part of a sustained campaign of invasions, intimidation and arrests of people in the camp.”
He said soldiers regularly raid Aida between 2am and 4am to carry out home invasions and arrests. After disrupting the training, the soldiers moved on to search other parts of the Lajee Center, an NGO, and the wider refugee camp.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has called on the international community to take responsibility and end Israel’s war in his address to the UN General Assembly.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 66,005 people and wounded 168,162 since October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.