2 The hospitals of Gaza City forced to stop operations while the Israeli offensive intensifies: the Ministry of Health
Two hospitals in Gaza City were put out of service due to the escalation of Israel of its offensive on the ground and its damage caused by continuous Israeli bombings, according to the Ministry of Health of the Enclave, while the tanks progressed more deeply in the territory.
The ministry said in its statement that the Al-Rrandi Children’s Hospital was seriously damaged a few days ago by Israeli bombing. At the same time, he reported Israeli attacks near the nearby eyes hospital, which also forced the suspension of services.
“The occupation deliberately and systematically targets the health system of the governorate of Gaza within the framework of its genocidal policy against the band,” he said.
“None of the facilities or hospitals have safe access routes that allow patients and injured to reach them,” added the ministry.
There was no immediate Israeli comment.
Almost two years after the start of the war, Israel describes Gaza City as the last bastion of Hamas. The Israeli army has demolished accommodation blocks which, according to them, were used by the militant group since Israel launched its assault on the city this month.
Residents said on Monday that Israeli tanks had progressed more deeply in the Sheikh Radwan region and Jala Street in northern Gaza City, where the two hospitals are located, while such al-Hawa, in the southeast, tanks pushed deeper in the direction of the western regions of the city.
They said the Israeli forces had used vehicles loaded with explosives, exploding remotely, to explode dozens of houses in both areas.
At least 25 killed in the last Israeli fire
At a meeting on Monday at Tel Aviv’s military headquarters with Defense Minister Israel Katz and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirmed his determination to eliminate Hamas, secure the release of the remaining hostages and ensure that Gaza no longer represents a threat to Israel, said his office.
The offensive alarmed families of Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. It is believed that twenty of these 48 captives are still alive.
Meanwhile, local health authorities said that at least 25 people had been killed by Israeli fires on Monday across the enclave, most of them in Gaza City.
On the same day, an offensive on the ground was launched in Gaza City, a report by the United Nations Commission concluded that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, a conclusion clearly refused by Israeli officials.
Last week, a United Nations survey noted that Israel had committed a genocide in Gaza. Israel called the biased and “scandalous” discovery.
On October 7 led by Hamas 2023, attacks against Israel killed 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli accounts.
The two -year -old Israel campaign has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, most civilians, according to local health authorities, and has spread famine, demolished most buildings and moved most of the territory of the territory, in many cases.
3 children among 5 killed after the Israeli strike in Lebanon
A strike from the Israeli drone killed five people, including three children, in the Lebanese city in southern Bint Jbeil on Sunday, the Lebanon Ministry of Health said.
Israel frequently targeted what he calls Hezbollah’s positions in southern Lebanon despite an American franchise truce between Lebanon and Israel, which took effect in November after more than a year of conflict triggered by the war in Gaza.
The Lebanon press agency said that the strike had struck a motorcycle and a vehicle, injuring two others.
The president of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, said in a statement that a father and his three children were among the dead, the injured mother.
The Israeli army said that she had killed a member of Hezbollah in the strike, but that “several unresolved civilians had been killed”.
“The IDF regrets any damage to people not involved and operates to minimize the damage as much as possible. The incident is being examined,” he said in a statement.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, in a position on X, described the attack as a “blatant crime against civilians and an intimidation message targeting our people to return to their villages in the south”.
Lebanon is under pressure from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah’s interior rivals to disarm the group supported by Iran. Hezbollah said it would be a serious miscarriage even of discussing disarmament while Israel continued air strikes in Lebanon and occupying territory sections in its south.
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