The Ministry of Health reports that “a large number” of dead and injured were rushed to hospital as a result of incessant Israeli shelling.
The Israeli army is carrying out intense attacks throughout the Gaza Strip by air, land and sea, causing many casualties and sowing fear among its displaced, war-weary population.
Dozens of airstrikes hit the besieged territory on Saturday, particularly in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, homes west of the city of Rafah in the south and multiple areas of Gaza City to the north.
The Gaza Health Ministry said “a large number” of dead and wounded were arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, most of whom are children and women.
“Dozens of injured people are lying on the ground and medical teams are trying to save them with the basic medical means at their disposal,” he said, adding that he lacks medicine and food and that his main generator has stopped working. due to lack of fuel.
Communications were affected amid the intense bombardment, but reporting from inside the “overwhelmed” hospital via phone call, Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary said the situation is tense, with terrified people on the street not knowing who to turn to. go.
“There are explosions every minute. Ambulances are taking the injured to the hospital where we are trapped. It's chaos inside the hospital. There are children among the injured,” he stated.
Mohammed el-Moughir, a doctor and director of supplies and equipment for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, confirmed to Al Jazeera that dozens of dead or injured Palestinians were taken to the Deir el-Balah hospital.
In a brief statement, the Israeli military said its forces were “currently attacking terrorist infrastructure in the Nuseirat area.”
The Gaza Government Media Office said in a statement that the Israeli army had launched “an unprecedented brutal attack” on the Nuseirat refugee camp, “leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded in the streets” and continuing “its aggression against all areas of the Central Government”. ”.
Also in central Gaza, at least six Palestinians from one family were killed by Israeli forces after their home in the Bureij refugee camp was shelled in the morning.
Dozens of airstrikes targeted southern areas of Gaza City, and witnesses reported that entire residential blocks were leveled.
The Israeli military is only intensifying its deadly campaign in Gaza after an attack on Thursday killed about 40 people sheltering in a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, where some 6,000 displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
He claimed he killed 17 “terrorists” in that attack, but the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said in a damning statement that the “school-turned-shelter” was attacked without warning and those responsible must be held accountable. .
Hamas accused the Israeli military of providing “false information” about the 17, saying that at least several of those announced to have been killed are still alive.
