Monday , November 25 2024

Israel kills 20 in Beirut; Gaza mosque & hospital also hit

25-11-2024

BRIRUT/ GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces killed at least 38 people across Gaza on Saturday, including in attacks on the Kamal Adwan Hospital and the al-Faruq Mosque in Nuseirat.

Rescuers are combing the rubble after an Israeli attack destroyed an eight-storey building in central Beirut, killing at least 20 people and wounding 66 others.

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv, calling for a truce deal after Hamas said a female captive was killed in Israel’s relentless bombardment of northern Gaza.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 44,176 Palestinians and wounded 104,473 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, with more than 200 taken captive.

In Lebanon, at least 3,670 people have been killed and 15,413 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.

Israeli forces have attacked the medical facility several times since launching their siege on northern Gaza on October 6.

The UN’s human rights office says the attacks come despite no reports of combat activity near the hospital’s vicinity or the use of its facilities by armed groups.

November 21 – 23: Israeli attacks kill two people and wound 12 medical staff at Kamal Adwan. Abu Safia, the facility’s director, is hit in the leg by shrapnel. The hospital’s electricity generator, and its oxygen and water supply networks, are also disrupted.

November 18 -19: Israeli attack destroys the roof and upper floors of the hospital. Medical staff at the Intensive Care Unit are hit by shrapnel, while the facility’s water tanks and sewage systems are also hit.

November 13: Six Palestinians are killed and others wounded in an Israeli attack at the gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

November 3: Israeli attack hits the third floor of the hospital, wounding six hospitalized children and damaging its water tanks.

October 31: Israeli attack hits the third floor of the hospital and ignites a fire at the medicine warehouse, destroying some supplies and damaging the desalination station for the hemodialysis department. Four medical staff are injured while trying to manually extinguish the fire.

October 25 – 26: Israeli forces raid Kamal Adwan and detain dozens of people. Of the hospital’s 70-member team, 44 male staff are detained, including an orthopedic surgeon with MSF.

October 19: Israeli attack destroys the entrance to the hospital’s laboratory.

Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in its war on Gaza. These are the most common names of Gaza’s lost children, listed alphabetically.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that rescue teams pulled body parts from the rubble after an Israeli attack on Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Three people were also injured in the attack on a building near the town’s electricity company.

Remnants of the guided missile used in the attack were also found, the NNA added.

At least eight people were killed in a series of Israeli attacks on Tyre on Saturday, including two fishermen killed by an Israeli drone.

The Lebanese armed group said it fired a salvo of rockets at Israeli troops in the settlement of Kfar Blum shortly after midnight.

The group claimed 34 attacks on Israeli positions in northern Israel and in southern Lebanon on Saturday, including a missile assault on a Merkava tank in the Lebanese town of al-Bayyaada that it said caused deaths and injuries. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)

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