Israeli Aggression Continues in Gaza: Targeting Civilians, Hospitals, and Ambulances

2023-11-04 06:56:33

11/4/2023-|Last update: 11/4/202310:03 AM (Mecca time)

For the 29th day in a row, the Israeli aggression once morest the Gaza Strip continues to target civilians and health sector facilities. Today, Saturday, the occupation aircraft bombed the entrance to Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital, west of Gaza, and a public water tank that supplies several neighborhoods east of Rafah, south of the Strip, following targeting ambulances and shelter centers yesterday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his feeling of “horror” regarding the Israeli strikes targeting hospitals and ambulances.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that the bombing of the entrance to Al-Nasr Hospital targeted displaced people, resulting in the death and injury of a number of people.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent also reported that the occupation army is targeting the remaining energy sources for the residents of the besieged Strip, as it bombed the main electricity generator in Al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza and put it out of service, in addition to targeting solar panels in homes.

The Al Jazeera correspondent said that the Israeli raids targeted two houses this morning in the Nuseirat camp and Rafah, resulting in the death of 7 Palestinians. Three Palestinians were also martyred and others were injured by targeting a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and a raid took place on the Tal al-Zaatar area, north of the Gaza Strip.

Targeting ambulances

Yesterday evening, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation deliberately targeted ambulances in front of Al-Shifa Hospital, resulting in the death of 15 Palestinians and the injury of 60 others, while the Al Jazeera correspondent said that the bombing coincided with another bombing of ambulances that were heading to the Rafah crossing to transport the wounded.

The Israeli army spokesman acknowledged the bombing of an ambulance, saying that he had observed its use by a group affiliated with the Palestinian resistance movement (Hamas) in the combat zone.

For his part, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, denied that the ambulance convoy targeted by Israel was carrying gunmen, adding that what was targeted in the convoy were two ambulances, not one car.

Al-Qudra challenged the occupation officials to show pictures proving the validity of their claims, stressing that the convoy was traveling towards the south and in front of the media, and this is what makes targeting it a full-fledged crime, with premeditation and premeditation.

The number of Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances out of service since the start of the aggression rose to 8, in addition to the martyrdom of 4 paramedics, and the injury of regarding 21 paramedics and volunteers as a result of the recent Israeli targeting of the convoy.

International condemnation

For his part, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed on Saturday his feeling of “horror” as a result of the strike launched by the Israeli army on an ambulance convoy in Gaza yesterday and in front of Al-Shifa Hospital.

Guterres stressed that the targeting of civilians that has been ongoing for regarding a month in Gaza must stop, especially since they are besieged and deprived of aid, warning of the lack of fuel necessary to operate hospitals.

Guterres added that the United Nations shelters in Gaza are operating at regarding 4 times their capacity, and are being bombed.

While the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that he was deeply shocked by the targeting of ambulances in Gaza, reminding that patients, caregivers, medical institutions, and ambulances must be protected at all times.

Targeting shelter centres

Coinciding with the Israeli targeting of ambulances, the occupation bombed yesterday evening the Osama bin Zaid School in the Al-Saftawi area, which houses dozens of displaced people directly north of the Gaza Strip, with tank shells, resulting in the martyrdom of 20 Palestinians.

The occupation forces also bombed a residential square in the Nuseirat camp, which has witnessed more than one Israeli massacre since the beginning of the aggression, resulting in the death and injury of dozens.

“We can no longer”

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, also said that relief operations in Gaza do not keep pace with the speed of destruction and the scale of the humanitarian crisis there.

During a briefing on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Griffiths stressed the need for a humanitarian truce that allows the entry of aid.

The Director of UNRWA in Gaza, Thomas White, said that the agency is no longer able to provide shelter and protection to civilians under the United Nations flag, adding that 50% of the agency’s facilities were damaged and it lost contact with many of its shelters in the northern Gaza Strip.

Destruction of places of worship

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that an Israeli raid destroyed a mosque in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, this morning.

The Israeli aggression targets places of worship in the Gaza Strip, as the government media office in Gaza stated yesterday that the occupation has so far completely destroyed 54 mosques, and caused varying damage to 110 other mosques, in addition to targeting 3 churches.

The government office added that the occupation claims to have bombed 12,000 targets in Gaza since the start of the aggression, but all of its targets are civilian, distributed among safe houses, public facilities, and hospitals.

The government office added that the occupation committed 965 massacres, and the toll of the aggression reached 9,227 martyrs, including 3,826 children, 2,405 women, and nearly 23,000 wounded, with 2,060 reports of missing persons.

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