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28-12-2024
SANA’A: The Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director said about 50 people have been killed, including five medical staff, in an Israeli air strike on a building near the hospital in northern Gaza.
Israel attacked a house overnight in Gaza City, killing at least nine people, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
A fourth Palestinian baby has died due to extreme cold in Gaza over the past 72 hours, as hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Israel’s war struggle to keep warm in flimsy tents, Wafa reports.
The head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) was at Yemen’s Sanaa airport when it was bombed by Israeli warplanes and at least six people were reported killed in Israel’s latest strikes on the country.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,399 Palestinians and wounded 107,940 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
We are receiving reports that Israel’s military has forced dozens of sick and injured patient to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital.
About 75 patients are now in the courtyard of the facility, which has been under sustained attack for weeks, and many have no protection from the cold weather in Gaza, a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza wrote on social media.
Journalist in central Gaza, Hani Mahmoud, reported a short time ago that Israeli officers used loudspeakers to give staff and patients a 15-minute deadline to leave the hospital.
Communication has also been cut at the hospital in what is believed to be preparation for Israeli troops to storm the facility.
Three infants have died of hypothermia in a tent camp for people in Gaza forcibly displaced from their homes by Israel’s military.
The babies froze to death as temperatures plummeted in the war-torn enclave as winter sets in and tens of thousands of people struggle to keep warm in tent shelters.
Mahmoud al-Faseeh, the father of a baby girl who died, told of how he found his daughter “stiff from the cold”.
This morning, Israel pushed deeper into the area surrounding Kamal Adwan Hospital. Israeli armoured tanks advanced deeper under heavy cover from quadcopter machineguns.
Explosive devices had already been planted in the vicinity of the hospital. Four were set off near the northern gate, at the back entrance, causing damage to the compound and sparking fires in some of the buildings around it.
Israeli officers called on loudspeakers to the director of the hospital and for the injured and the patients to come out of the hospital within 15 minutes. This happened at about 7:15am.
We haven’t had any communication from the hospital since, as it seems that all communication means have been disconnected in preparation most likely for the storming of the hospital.
Reproters have obtained and verified video footage said to show chaos at Yemen’s Sanaa airport after it came under attack from Israeli warplanes on Thursday.
Israel’s latest air strikes on what it claims are Houthi targets in Yemen have killed at least six people and are set to continue after a missile was fired overnight towards Israel from Yemen.
No casualties were reported by Israeli authorities who said the missile was intercepted outside Israeli airspace. (Int’l News Desk)
