The total death count among the Palestinians, women, and children, stands at over 22 so far, amid various airstrikes using Israel’s jetfighters and drones throughout Gaza. Continued power blackout in northern Gaza is endangering the lives of more than 100 patients in the local hospital amidst this crisis within the besieged territory.
In the most recent assault on the Jabalia refugee camp, early on Monday morning, three people were killed when a missile launched from a drone struck them as they were trying to leave their home in search of food. Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud reported from central Deir el-Balah: “They were killed instantly, and their bodies remain in the street as no one can reach the bombed site to remove them.”
For 65 days, Jabalia has been under an Israeli siege; it has left thousands of Palestinians without food and water, and as a result, starvation has reached unimaginable levels. Mahmoud described the situation thus: “Jabalia has been turned into a graveyard.”
In a separate incident overnight in Rafah, an Israeli strike killed ten people queuing to buy flour. The limited delivery of humanitarian aid through the southern border has brought similar scenes of hunger to southern Gaza.
In central Gaza, bodies have piled up in the morgue outside Al-Aqsa Hospital after a residential building was bombed in the Bureij refugee camp. At least nine members of one family-primarily women and children-were killed in this attack, highlighting the ongoing tragedy. “The morgue was overwhelmed, leaving no room for more bodies,” Mahmoud reported.
In northern Gaza, the condition of Kamal Adwan Hospital is dire. According to Hussam Abu Safia, its head, more than 100 patients at the facility are in danger amid power, oxygen, and water supply cuts caused by the latest Israeli bombardments. “The situation is very dangerous,” he said, adding that he can’t access operating rooms in the absence of electricity and oxygen.
One of the few remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza, the hospital has had its resources severely stretched. An Israeli assault on Friday killed four hospital employees. The local health authorities estimate that over 44,700 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war, most of whom were women and children.
