At least 45 dead with 12 children in various Israeli raids on Gaza, Deir al-Balah hospital also hit, IDF: “It was a command center”
At least 45 people, including at least 12 children, have been killed by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including one this morning on Deir al-Balah hospital – said the IDF was targeting a “command center” of Hamas -, say hospital sources in the Strip.
At least 22 people, including at least one newborn, were killed in raids on the al Mufti school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, officials at al-Awda and al-Aqsa hospitals said. In addition, according to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, five children were killed by an Israeli airstrike while playing marbles in al Shati camp, in northern Gaza. Previously, al-Aqsa hospital announced that eight members of a family in the Nuseirat refugee camp – including six children – died after an attack by the Israeli army on a house where they were taking refuge. Another six were killed when an Israeli tank fired from the nearby Bureij refugee camp.
Finally, during the night, at least four people died and 40 others were injured after the IDF raid on the al-Aqsa martyrs hospital in the city center of Deir al-Balah caused a fire that hit the human tent camp displaced. According to Palestinian doctors, cited by AP, some died from severe burns.
al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital was already struggling to treat a large number of wounded from an earlier attack on a nearby school shelter that killed at least 20 people when airstrikes were launched early this morning. AP footage shows children among the injured. The Israeli Air Force announces for its part that it launched a “targeted attack” during the night against “Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center” located in the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital, in the Deir al Balah area, adding to it. that “Hamas terrorists used the command and control center to plan and execute terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel.”