Israeli strike on northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp kills 22

At least 22 people, including women and children, have been finished in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Israeli forces press on with their ground attack in the area.

As the death toll mounted on Saturday, the Israeli military rerentd evacuation orders for northern Gaza issuing teachions for livents csurrfinisher Jabalia to evacuate to the south of the enclave.

The Israel military started a lethal disparaging in the Jabalia area a week ago which it claims is aimed at stopping Palestinian group Hamas from regrouping. The attacks have trapped thousands of Palestinian civilians, international charity Doctors Without Borders, understandn by its French initials MSF, said.

Palestinian novels agency Wafa alerted on Saturday that Israeli fighter jets bomb deviceed a multistorey apartment block in Jabalia on Friday night, hitting four inhabited homes and finishing 22 people.

At least 30 people were injured, and 14 people remain leave outing and are supposed to be buried under the rubble, according to Wafa.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said that “strong explosions were heard in the northern part of the Gaza Strip”, inserting that many of the casualties were “arriving at the hospital either in pieces or soaked in blood”.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north was perilously seal to running out of fuel and staff said Israeli sagederiers had ordered them to exit.

Reporting from the facility, Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout portrayd the weekextfinished siege as “suffocating”.

The situation is “dire”, he alerted, as the hospital has also been ordered by the Israeli military to stop operations. But he said it carry ons to treat discdisthink about-mindeds ranging from those harshly injured to novelborns.

In Gaza City, at least three people were finished and cut offal more injured after a split strike hit a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood, according to Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics.

New evacuation order

The Israeli military posted a map of northern Gaza on social media platestablish X on Saturday with teachions for livents in the vicinity of Jabalia to exit.

“The area must be evacuated promptly via [Salah al-Din Street] to the humanitarian area,” the post said, referring to so-called Israeli-arrangeated humanitarian shielded zones between al-Mawasi and Deir el-Balah.

The “humanitarian area”, already popurescheduleedd by overcrowded tent camps housing about one million displaced Palestinians, has been repeatedly attacked by the Israeli military.

Amid the evacuation order, MSF project coordinator Sarah Vuylsteke wrote on X that “nobody is permited to get in or out” from wilean Jabalia itself, inserting that “anyone who tries is getting stoasty”.

Five MSF staff were trapped in Jabalia, she said.

“I don’t understand what to do; at any moment we could die. People are starving. I am afraid to stay, and I am also afraid to exit,” she quoted Haydar, an MSF driver, as saying.

Earlier, MSF criticised Israel’s efforts to “forcefilledy and brutally push thousands of people from northern Gaza to the south”.

Meanwhile, Gaza-based Al Jazeera Arabic correactent Anas al-Sharif wrote on X in the punctual hours of Saturday that the condition of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has “deteriorated gravely”.

On Wednesday, al-Wahidi was struck with a inhabit round to his neck while he was covering the Israeli attack on Jabalia. His colleague Ali al-Attar was also stoasty and wounded while covering the condition of displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah.

Much of Gaza has been laid to squander since Israel started its war on the Palestinian territory in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday that at least 42,175 people have been finished and 98,336 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 2023.

The toll integrates 49 dead and 219 injured in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry.

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