GAZA(Palestine Foundation Information Center)As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 69 on Thursday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and level whole blocks and homes and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.
The Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza last night and in the morning.
The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said that a number of wounded civilians, including a paramedic, were rushed to the Nasser Hospital after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried artillery attacks on the central areas of Khan Yunis.
He added that an Israeli army drone continued to open fire at shelter centers in Khan Yunis refugee camp in order to terrorize and kill displaced citizens living inside them.
Earlier, a medical source at the Kamal Adwan Hospital said that two wounded civilians succumbed to their injuries after doctors failed to save them as a result of the tight Israeli siege on the hospital.
Spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qudra said that the Israeli forces inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital prevented doctors from providing medical care for 10 wounded citizens in the emergency department, which led to the death of two of them so far.
Spokesman Qudra added that the soldiers forced the medical staff of the hospital to gather the wounded citizens and the children who need intensive care on the second floor of the facility, while depriving them of water, food, electricity and movement.
The spokesman also said that 12 children under intensive care at the hospital are deprived of milk and could lose their lives as a result of the power blackout and the resultant failure to operate the life support devices they need for survival.
The IOF had already kidnaped over 70 doctors and medical workers, including director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital Ahmed al-Kahlout, from the facility.
Later, the IOF also forced at gunpoint 2,500 displaced civilians to leave the hospital and go to shelter centers and started to force the medical staff to evacuate the wounded and patients, including children, and go to the Al-Shifa Hospital, which had already been bombed and besieged.
In the morning, local sources in Gaza City said that a citizen called Talal Abdul-Salam and his wife and grandchildren were killed during an Israeli attack on their home.
The IOF also carried out artillery attacks on several homes in Jabalia refugee camp, killing and wounding dozens of civilians.
A spokesman for the civil defense authority in Gaza City said the Israeli army showered the neighborhoods of al-Zeitoun, al-Shuja’iya and al-Daraj with projectiles, killing and injuring many citizens
An Israeli aerial attack also destroyed a house in al-Sahaba area of al-Daraj neighborhood.
26 civilians were reportedly martyred when Israeli airstrikes targeted a house belonging to the family of Karira in the same neighborhood.
A number of casualties were reported when the Israeli army bombed a neighborhood in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
Dozens of civilians were also massacred during Israeli attacks on homes, schools and roads across the Gaza Strip.
