At least 22 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed after Israel launched air and drone attacks across Gaza, while a power outage threatens the lives of more than 100 patients at a hospital in the besieged territory’s north.
In the latest Israeli attack in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Monday morning, three people were targeted with a missile launched from a drone, instantly killing them, sources told Al Jazeera.
Jabalia has been under Israeli siege for 65 days, with thousands of Palestinians being denied access to food and water supplies, leaving many starving.
“Jabalia has been turned into a graveyard,” Mahmoud said.
Overnight, an Israeli attack in the southern city of Rafah also killed 10 people while they had lined up to buy flour.
At least nine members of one family, most of them women and children, were killed in the attack, Mahmoud said.
Meanwhile, in northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, the head of the facility, Hussam Abu Safia, said the lives of more than 100 patients were in danger after electricity, oxygen and water supplies were cut.
Abu Safia said recent Israeli shelling and bombing had severely damaged the hospital and cut the water and electricity supply to parts of it.
Abu Safia said the hospital currently had 112 wounded patients, including six in intensive care and 14 children.
Continued shelling near the hospital was “preventing us from conducting repairs”, he said.
The hospital is one of the last operational medical facilities in the north of the territory.
Israel’s offensive has killed more than 44,700 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, according to local health authorities; most of the dead are women and children.
