31 premature babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

The Hamas government announced on Sunday that 13,000 people have been killed in the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the war.

Among the dead who have been counted so far are more than 5,500 children, 3,500 women, and 30,000 people injured. While the government media office said that Israel’s attacks have targeted 60 percent of residential units in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on the seventh of last month.

A spokesman for the office stated, during a press conference, that 43,000 housing units were completely destroyed in Israeli raids, while 225,000 housing units were partially demolished, “which means that about 60 percent of the housing units in the Gaza Strip were completely or partially affected.”

The German News Agency quoted the spokesman as saying that the number of destroyed government headquarters reached 97 and 262 schools, of which 65 schools were out of service, while the number of completely destroyed mosques reached 83 mosques, and 166 mosques were partially destroyed, in addition to targeting 3 churches.

He explained that the number of reports of missing persons under the rubble of destroyed buildings or in the roads and who cannot be recovered exceeded 6,000 reports, including more than 4,000 children and women, noting that 201 health personnel, 22 civil defense personnel, and 60 journalists were killed.

He pointed out that 25 hospitals and 52 health centers were out of service, while 55 ambulances were targeted, and dozens were out of service due to running out of fuel.

Meanwhile, the Hamas Ministry of Health reported on Sunday that 41 members of one family were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted their home in a neighborhood in central Gaza City. The ministry published a list of the names of 41 people belonging to the “Malika family,” who were killed in this strike that occurred at dawn in the Zaytoun neighborhood, which witnessed violent confrontations in the morning between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent, who also referred to air strikes. .

Health officials in Gaza also said that at least 11 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by an Israeli air strike that hit a house in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical and security sources announced that Israeli warplanes launched several raids on a residential square in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the town of Beit Lahia. Which led to dozens of deaths and injuries, most of whom are still under the rubble, according to the German News Agency. According to the sources, the raids destroyed a large number of neighboring homes, while rescue workers and residents of the area are trying to search for survivors under the rubble using primitive means.

Before that, medical sources announced that 15 Palestinians; Among them are two journalists, who were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing on an inhabited residential house in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. According to sources, Israeli warplanes destroyed 4 mosques in the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip. It was also announced that 6 were killed in an Israeli bombing targeting the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza.

In another context, the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that ambulance crews were able, (Sunday), in coordination with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to evacuate 31 premature babies from Al-Shifa Hospital. According to the Red Crescent, premature babies were placed in ambulances. In preparation for their transfer to the Emirates Hospital in Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.

In the same context, Doctors Without Borders said (Sunday) that one person was killed and another was injured after its convoy was attacked in the Gaza Strip. The organization stated, in a statement, that the convoy was carrying 137 of its employees and their families, noting that the dead and injured were members of the families of its employees, according to the Arab World News Agency.

The organization reported that those in the convoy remained stranded for a week in one of the organization’s headquarters, near the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, expressing its condemnation “in the strongest terms” of the attack, which it described as “deliberate.”

Yesterday, the Israeli army arrested 100 people from Gaza belonging to various organizations and transferred them for investigation in Israel. Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee said (Sunday), in his account on the “X” platform, that the Israeli forces conducted dozens of investigations in the areas of ground operations in Gaza. Among those transferred to Israel, 3 participated in the October 7 attack on Israeli towns and camps adjacent to the Gaza Strip.