Egypt received this Monday 28 of the 31 Palestinian premature babies who were evacuated from the Al Shifa hospital, in the Gaza Strip, to receive treatment in that country, according to media sources. Red Moon.
The children, who are reportedly in very poor health due to lack of oxygen and medical care, crossed the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt in Palestinian ambulances and were met by Egyptian medical teams on the Egyptian side of the border. .
Two tankers with fuel entered Gaza today through that same crossing, bringing the total number of tankers that Israel has allowed to cross into Gaza since last Thursday to nine, in the face of international pressure.
In addition, 180 doctors and equipment sent by Jordan to establish a second Jordanian field hospital in the Palestinian enclave also crossed the Rafah crossing into Gaza today, along with a 17-member Emirati delegation that will visit the Strip for the same objective.
At least 12 dead in a new attack on the Indonesian hospital
Jerusalem (EFE).- At least 12 people, including wounded and medical personnel, died today in direct attacks by the Israeli Army on the Indonesian hospital, located near Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to the Ministry of Health. of Gaza, controlled by Hamas.
“Israeli occupation forces put thousands of wounded, medical personnel and displaced people in the circle of death as a result of direct and repeated attacks on the Indonesian Hospital,” the ministry spokesperson said.
According to Health, the attack – carried out with artillery by tanks – is “a new crime committed by the Israeli occupation against hospitals in the Gaza Strip.”
Israel has attacked several hospitals in the Strip in recent weeks, arguing that Hamas militants were hiding there.
The most forceful has been the siege of the Al Shifa hospital in the last week, the largest in the Strip located in Gaza City, in which the army claims to have found a fortified underground tunnel belonging to the Islamic guerrilla
Israel says it has killed three more Hamas commanders
For its part, the Israeli Army reported that it continues its “ground operations” within the Gaza Strip with the support of its aviation, and that in the last few hours it has killed three “commanders” of the armed wing of Hamas.
Since the war began, a month and a half ago, Israel has reported the death in its operations of dozens of senior and middle officials of Hamas, although consulted today by EFE, it has not provided an exact figure.
A military statement has highlighted the important support work of aviation in its ground offensive, “directing planes to attack terrorists, terrorist infrastructure and locating weapons and military equipment.”
With this strategy, the Army announced that troops from the Nahal Brigade identified a Hamas cell that was heading to a building near them in the Gaza Strip and requested an airstrike.
The building was also apparently used as a weapons depot and was destroyed during the attack.
Since the ground incursion into Gaza began, Israeli troops have confirmed 65 casualties in their ranks.
The UN raises the number of internally displaced people in Gaza to 1.7 million
Meanwhile, the number of internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip continues to increase and has already exceeded 1.7 million, which is equivalent to three quarters of the total population of the Palestinian territory (2.2 million).
As indicated today in the daily UN report on the conflict, these displacements also represent a progressive growth in the number of people staying in facilities of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which are now approaching 900,000, in mostly in overcrowded conditions.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which prepares these daily reports, also warns that this overcrowding has contributed to the spread of acute respiratory diseases and diarrhea.
BY CH FAHAD KHAN JANDA
