At least three partially functioning hospitals treating severely wounded patients and sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza are currently under intense Israeli fire, as the siege on Jabalia enters its third week, with at least 33 more people killed in the latest strikes on several homes.
Israeli forces bombed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia early on Saturday, and have also shelled Kamal Adwan and the Indonesian hospitals in Beit Lahiya over the past few hours, Al Jazeera correspondents have reported.
At least one person has been killed and several others were wounded in the strike at the entrance of the laboratory of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
In another Israeli attack on central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp, at least 11 people were killed, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said on Saturday, adding that there are still missing people under the rubble.
In all, at least 67 Palestinians have been reported killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours, according to authorities in the enclave.
At least 40 patients are trapped inside the hospital and Israeli tanks have surrounded it, he said.
Meanwhile, the attack on al-Awda Hospital cut power to the medical facility. Witnesses also told Abu Azzoum the situation in other parts of Jabalia had “severely deteriorated” since Friday.
