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Not less than 50 individuals have been injured within the assault close to the Al-Helal Al-Emirati Maternity Hospital in southern Gaza.
Israeli forces have hit a tent in Rafah housing displaced Palestinians, killing not less than 11 individuals, in accordance with native authorities, hours after 15 individuals have been killed in an assault on a house in Deir el-Balah within the Gaza Strip.
Not less than 50 individuals have been injured in Saturday’s drone assault, which happened subsequent to the doorway of the Al-Helal Al-Emirati Maternity Hospital in Tal as-Sultan, Rafah Metropolis, Gaza’s Ministry of Well being mentioned in a press release.
The ministry mentioned Abdel Fattah Abu Marhi, the pinnacle of the paramedic unit on the hospital, was killed.
It added that kids have been among the many injured.
“A tent stuffed with displaced evacuees within the space, together with a whole household, has been straight hit by a drone strike,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah.
He mentioned eight of the our bodies had been taken to the Kuwait Hospital “the place the scene may be very chaotic” because the small facility is unprepared for the big variety of accidents arriving there.
In December, displaced individuals have been instructed by the Israelis to maneuver to the Tal as-Sultan space to keep away from being bombed, our correspondent mentioned, including that “the narrative that Rafah is a protected zone has as soon as once more been confirmed false.”
“Whereas this isn’t the primary time that the Tal as-Sultan space has been focused, it’s most likely the worst,” Mahmoud mentioned. “Individuals’s sense of security in Rafah is totally shattered.”
Not less than 30,320 Palestinians have been killed and 71,533 wounded in Israeli assaults on Gaza since October 7, Gaza’s Well being Ministry mentioned on Saturday. It added that not less than 92 of these have been killed within the final 24 hours.
Earlier, not less than 17 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in Israeli air raids focusing on three homes elsewhere within the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Wafa information company, quoting medical sources, reported that Israeli jets focused two homes east of Deir el-Balah within the central Gaza Strip, ensuing within the killing of 15 individuals.
Within the Jabalia campin , northern Gaza, Israeli jets struck a home in an assault that killed two individuals. The home was reportedly sheltering 70 displaced individuals.
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