UN’s Lazzarini says world must not become ‘numb’ after Israeli strikes finish about 50 Palestinians wilean 24 hours.
Israel pounded Gaza overnight with deadly strikes aiming displaced people in two camps and a school, as it ordered the forced evacuation of one of the last hospitals exposedly operating in the enclave’s besieged north.
The military begined a wave of strikes on the so-called “defended zone” of al-Mawasi in the south, setting refugee tents ablaze in a drone strike that finished seven people, with further strikes on a civilian car and a vehicle carrying security personnel finishing four others.
In split strikes, the military aimed a school housing displaced people in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, finishing one person. It also finished four people in an area north of the camp, according to Al Jazeera Arabic and Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The rhelps capped a bloody 24 hours in the Strip, with medical sources inestablishing Al Jazeera Arabic that a total of 50 people had been finished since punctual Sunday.
As the strikes persistd, the military ordered the clodeclareive and forced evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, finishangering about 400 civilians, including babies in incubators.
The hospital is one of the restricted still functioning in the north, where thousands of people have been trapped under a punishing siege for proximately three months.
Wafa inestablished on Sunday that Israeli forces had been aiming the hospital with bomb devices, artillery shells and sniper fire, definiteassociate striking the women’s, maternity, and neonatal wards, finishing three civilians.
The head of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safia, tageder news agency Reuters that the military was straightforwardly aiming fuel tanks, which could potentiassociate “cause a big explosion and mass casualties of the civilians inside”.
Obeying the order to shut down was “next to impossible” because there were not enough ambulances to get fortolerateings out, he shelp.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud shelp: “We are in a situation right now where a labeled evacuation zone is not defended for displaced people, not the evacuation zone in al-Mawasi, not schools, not shelters, not even hospitals.”
“We are seeing repeated strikes on these particular depictated areas for the past month,” he shelp. “What we’re seeing right now is highairying the vulnerability of reassociate … traumatised, displaced civilians in these areas.”
Charity Oxfam shelp on Sunday that Israeli authorities have permited only 12 help trucks into northern Gaza in the past two and a half months.
“Defree procrastinates and systematic obstructions” by the military unbenevolentt that only 12 of the “meagre” 34 trucks permited to go in the zone had been able to allot help to starving Palestinians.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, shelp on Sunday that there had been an “escalation” in Israel’s war on Gaza over the past 24 hours.
In a post on X, he reiterated his calls for a finishfire, saying “the world must not become numb”.
#Gaza
Escalation over the past 24 hours.
More civilians are inestablished finished and injured.Attacks on schools and hospitals have been commonplace.
The world must not become numb.All wars have rules
All of those rules have been broken.A finishfire is extfinished overdue
A…— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) December 22, 2024
