Dozens Feared Killed As Israel Bombs Flour Distribution Line, Hospital, Refugee Camps
Health authorities in Gaza report that dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in ongoing Israeli attacks, while a severe power outage threatens the lives of over 100 patients in a northern Gaza hospital.
On Monday, Gaza’s Health Ministry revealed that 50 people were killed and 84 others injured on Sunday as Israeli forces carried out three separate attacks described as “massacres” in the besieged territory.
The violence continued Monday morning with an Israeli drone attack targeting the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing three people, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.
The deteriorating situation has raised grave concerns, particularly for hospitals in northern Gaza. The power outage threatens critical medical procedures and the survival of patients, including those reliant on life support.
“[The victims] were trying to leave their home in search of food in the vicinity of their neighbourhood when they were targeted by a drone,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Deir el-Balah in Gaza.
“They were killed right away. Their bodies are still in the street and nobody has the ability to get to the bombed site and remove the bodies from the street.”
Jabalia has been under Israeli siege for 65 days, with thousands of Palestinians being denied access to food and water supplies, leaving many starving.
“Jabalia has been turned into a graveyard,” Mahmoud said.
Overnight, an Israeli attack in the southern city of Rafah also killed 10 people while they had lined up to buy flour.
Mahmoud said because of the limited delivery of humanitarian aid going through the southern border, scenes of hunger similar to northern Gaza were also happening in the south.
In central Gaza, where our correspondent is reporting from outside Al-Aqsa Hospital, bodies were also piling up at the medical facility’s morgue following the latest Israeli bombing of a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp.
At least nine members of one family, most of them women and children, were killed in the attack, Mahmoud said.
“The agony keeps on unfolding here at Al-Aqsa Hospital, where survivors and relatives showed up early this morning to collect the bodies from the morgue of the hospital,” he said.
