Gaza War: Israel continues its ground operations in northern Gaza, and Palestinian Health warns of “a serious humanitarian disaster”

The Palestinian Ministry of Health warned of what it described as a serious humanitarian disaster facing babies in the Kamal Adwan Hospital nursery in northern Gaza, due to a fuel crisis and a shortage of medicines and medical supplies due to the Israeli army siege.

In Gaza City, at least 8 were killed as well as numerous injuries as a result of an Israeli plane that bombed a house for the Al-Helu family near the Jordan Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa area, southwest of Gaza City.

Israeli aircraft targeted a group of Palestinians, killing at least three people and wounding several near the intersection of Al-Oyoun and Al-Jalaa Streets, west of Gaza City.

According to the Palestinian News Agency, the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,438, most of them children and women, since the beginning of October 7, 2023.

She said that the death toll has risen to 99,246 since the start of the war, and thousands of victims are still under the rubble.

At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Dr. Muhammad Rayan, head of the emergency reception department, said the hospital does not have the necessary equipment to handle burn cases.

He said in his interview with the BBC’s Gaza Today programme, “Burn injuries are among the most difficult injuries that a person can be exposed to, especially with, because of the weapons that the profession uses.” practice now, we have begun to see types of burns that did not exist before during the time of our professional work.”

He also says, “In the hospital we try to deal with burn cases, but the necessary equipment is not available, the health system does not have the minimum capabilities, let alone to ‘ deal with cases of burning which require special care ready to attend to the injured, and the necessary instruments are not available.” “It took away the lives of many injured persons, and “Their lives could be saved.”

The vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital was subjected to Israeli bombardment, which led to the burning of the tents of those displaced there, killing dozens of Palestinians, and injuring others.

Muhammad Al-Dalu saw members of his family being shot on October 14, 2024. He says, “I sleep in a tent outside the street, while my brother Shaaban sleeps in a tent the family. ”

On October 14, 2024, he says he heard the sound of a loud bomb “I went to see what was happening and I found the fire at a high altitude between the tents. . I couldn’t help my brother, who was shooting in front of me.” After colliding with another person as we fell to the ground, my younger brothers suffered 70 percent burns, and my mother died instantly.”

He said, “Shaaban also died. He was memorizing the Qur’an and making videos on the Instagram platform in English to tell what was happening to the people of Gaza during the war. In high school, the scientific branch, Shaaban got a 98 percent average, and he excelled at university in the computer engineering major.

He says: “My family’s situation is very difficult. I have a 14-year-old sister in the American Hospital… Their treatment is not available in the Gaza Strip. “They need plastic surgery abroad.

For his part, the European Union’s foreign policy official Josep Borrell criticized the United States giving Israel a one-month deadline to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying that a large number of people will die during that time.

Borrell told reporters in Brussels on Thursday, “The United States is telling Israel that it needs to improve humanitarian aid to Gaza, but it gave a one-month deadline, a one-month deadline at the current level that has people dying in large numbers,” and described the situation as “disastrous.”