Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza, Lebanon as ceasefire remains elusive
The Israeli military has killed dozens more people in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon as it expands its attacks while ceasefire talks appear to be going nowhere.
At least 55 people were killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Fourteen of them were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes and shelling from warships in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on Friday, medical officials at al-Awda Hospital said.
“People are arriving to the hospital in carts pulled by animals, because it’s quite hard for civil defence and front-line emergency workers to reach the area, as Israeli military drones are actively operating there,” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Deir el-Balah as the bombs fell a few kilometres away.
One of the targets in Nuseirat was a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians, bringing the total number of such centres hit since the start of the war to close to 200.
Abu Mohammed al-Taweel, a witness of the Israeli attacks on Nuseirat, said he saw many people killed after multiple family homes were targeted, with a five-month-old baby among the dead.
On Thursday, Israeli forces targeted multiple areas of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north, including its stash of medicine delivered five days earlier by the World Health Organization and a water desalination plant.
At least two children died in the intensive care unit after the hospital’s generators stopped and the oxygen station was targeted, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The Government Media Office in Gaza reported on Friday that the number of journalists killed by Israeli since the start of the war has risen to 183.
The official death toll in Gaza now stands at 43,259 people with 101,827 wounded, but the real number of casualties is believed to be much higher.
