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Al Jazeera
5 days ago
- Health
- Al Jazeera
Israel kills 18 in attacks, using ‘drone missiles packed with nails'
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed since dawn across Gaza in Israeli attacks, medical sources have told Al Jazeera, as the besieged and bombarded enclave's decimated health system, overwhelmed by a daily flow of wounded, is forcing doctors to make decisions on who to treat first. In the latest killings Friday, three people died in an Israeli attack on the Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City. Five people were also killed in an Israeli air attack in Jabalia al-Nazla, in northern Gaza. Earlier, an Israeli attack hit tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza – previously designed a so-called 'safe zone' – igniting a major fire and killing at least five people, including infants. Al-Mawasi has come under repeated and deadly Israeli fire. Al Jazeera's correspondent Hani Mahmoud said the injured, including children, were transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex. Some showed wounds compatible with drone attacks. 'Drone missiles are packed with nails, metals and shrapnel that explodes at high speed, causing internal bleeding,' Mahmoud said. 'These attacks are on the rise and target people in large crowds, in markets or while queueing for water.' 'While Israel claims to be using sophisticated weapons, when we look on the ground we see the number of casualties contradicting what Israel is [saying],' he added. 'What should we do? Die at home?' Israel's ongoing punishing blockade of Gaza is forcing doctors in crammed medical facilities to make difficult decisions about who to treat. Patients with chronic illnesses are often the first to miss out because emergency departments are overwhelmed by people wounded in Israeli attacks. 'Before the war, I used to receive dialysis three times a week, with each session lasting four hours. At that time, the situation was stable, the treatment was effective, and we would return home feeling well and rested,' Omda Dagmash, a dialysis patient, told Al Jazeera at the barely functioning al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. 'Now we can barely make the journey to the hospital particularly that we are not eating well.' At al-Shifa, the dialysis schedule has been scaled down to shorter and less frequent sessions. For some, it is matter of life and death. 'The journey here is long and costly,' said Rowaida Minyawi, an elderly patient. 'After all this exhaustion, we sometimes can't find treatment. I have heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Even the medicine we get is not good. What should we do? Die at home?' Besides prioritising patients, healthcare workers say they also have to scale back operations to the minimum as no fuel means no power — and no way to save lives. 'Only a few departments are working. We had to cut electricity to the rest,' said Ziad Abu Humaidan, from the hospital's engineering department. 'The hospital's yards turned into graveyards rather than a place of care and healing. Without electricity, there is no lighting, no functioning medical equipment, and no support for other essential services.' Waning support in Israel for war According to a public opinion survey conducted by the Israeli news outlet Maariv, about 44 percent of the Israeli public said the continued war in Gaza will not achieve the country's goals. A total of 42 percent of those surveyed said they believe the fighting will lead to achieving the goals, while 11 percent of the respondent said they are undecided. Maariv also noted that of those who support the current coalition government, 73 percent think the military will achieve its goals, while 70 percent of opposition supporters think otherwise. In the meantime, Israel faced rare backlash on Thursday after it bombed Gaza's only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least 10 others. United States President Donald Trump contacted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after having 'not a positive reaction' to the strike, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. After the call, Netanyahu attributed the strike to 'stray ammunition' and added that Israel was investigating the incident. Hamas slammed the attack as 'a new crime committed against places of worship and innocent displaced persons' that comes in the context of a 'war of extermination against the Palestinian people.'
Middle East Eye
10-07-2025
- Health
- Middle East Eye
Six Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli strikes across Gaza Strip
At least six Palestinians have been killed in separate Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to hospital sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic. Nasser Medical Complex said three people, including a woman, were killed near an aid distribution centre north of Rafah in southern Gaza. In another attack, a source at the Baptist Hospital reported that a young man was killed and several others injured in an Israeli air strike on Jabalia al-Balad in the north of the territory. Meanwhile, two more Palestinians were killed in a separate bombing near Al-Zahraa School, east of Gaza City, the same hospital confirmed.
The Guardian
09-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Children among 20 people reported killed overnight by Israeli strikes on Gaza – Middle East crisis live
Update: Date: 2025-07-09T07:11:28.000Z Title: Opening summary Content: Hello and welcome to the Guardian's continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Gaza civil defence has said 20 people, including at least six children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight. Agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP the first hit a tent housing displaced people in Khan Younis in the south shortly after midnight local time (9pm GMT Tuesday) and the second struck a camp in the north soon afterwards. Elsewhere, medical officials, humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily 'mass casualty incidents' as they struggle to deal with those wounded by Israeli fire on Palestinians seeking aid. As reported by the Guardian's Jason Burke, doctors describe many of the casualties they are treating describe being shot as they try to reach distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed organisation that began handing out food in late May. 'The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day. Sometimes within just half an hour we receive over 100 to 150 cases, ranging from severe injuries to deaths … About 95% of these injuries and deaths come from food distribution centres – what are referred to as the 'American food distribution centres',' said Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at Gaza's Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. In other developments: AP News reports that an Israeli report released Tuesday accuses Hamas of using sexual violence as a weapon of war during its Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. The findings are based on survivor and witness testimonies, first responder accounts, and forensic evidence. The report says that many victims may have been killed, silencing them and complicating investigations. It asks for new legal approaches to prosecuting sexual violence in conflict, suggesting evidence beyond victim testimony and holding all attackers jointly responsible. Hamas denies the allegations. This comes as Israel and Hamas are negotiating a ceasefire. Reporters were told that the anticipated agreement would involve a 60-day ceasefire, with the release of ten live hostages and nine deceased individuals. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US president Donald Trump to discuss any potential ceasefire deal options. Netanyahu said the meeting was focused around freeing hostages held in Gaza, and stressed his determination to 'eliminate' the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas.
Malay Mail
27-06-2025
- Health
- Malay Mail
WHO delivers first medical aid to Gaza in nearly four months, warns it's ‘a drop in the ocean'
GENEVA, June 27 — The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it had delivered its first medical shipment into Gaza since March 2, adding though that the nine truckloads were 'a drop in the ocean'. Wednesday's shipment of supplies, plasma and blood will be distributed among hospitals in the Palestinian territory in the coming days, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X. Israel imposed a total blockade on the Gaza Strip on March 2. More than two months later, it began allowing some food in, but no other aid items until now. Tedros said nine trucks carrying essential medical supplies, 2,000 units of blood and 1,500 units of plasma were delivered via the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, 'without any looting incident, despite the high-risk conditions along the route'. 'These supplies will be distributed to priority hospitals in the coming days,' Tedros said. 'The blood and plasma were delivered to Nasser Medical Complex's cold storage facility for onward distribution to hospitals facing critical shortages, amid a growing influx of injuries, many linked to incidents at food distribution sites.' Last week the WHO said only 17 of Gaza's 36 hospitals were minimally to partially functional, with the rest unable to function at all. Tedros said four WHO trucks were still at Kerem Shalom and more were on their way towards Gaza. 'However, these medical supplies are only a drop in the ocean. Aid at scale is essential to save lives,' he said. 'WHO calls for the immediate, unimpeded and sustained delivery of health aid into Gaza through all possible routes.' Israel began allowing supplies to trickle in at the end of May following its more than two-month total blockade, but distribution has been marred by chaotic scenes and near-daily reports of Israeli forces firing on people waiting to collect rations. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new US- and Israel-backed food distribution system, began handing out food in Gaza on May 26. But the UN and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the GHF — an officially private effort with opaque funding — over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives. Israel is pressing its bombardment of the territory in a military offensive it says is aimed at defeating the group Hamas, whose unprecedented October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war. — AFP
Al Arabiya
26-06-2025
- Health
- Al Arabiya
WHO delivers its first medical aid to Gaza since March 2
The World Health Organization said Thursday that it had delivered its first medical shipment into Gaza since March 2, adding though that the nine truckloads were 'a drop in the ocean.' Wednesday's shipment of supplies, plasma and blood will be distributed among hospitals in the Palestinian territory in the coming days, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X. Israel imposed a total blockade on the Gaza Strip on March 2. More than two months later, it began allowing some food in, but no other aid items until now. Tedros said nine trucks carrying essential medical supplies, 2,000 units of blood and 1,500 units of plasma were delivered via the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, 'without any looting incident, despite the high-risk conditions along the route.' 'These supplies will be distributed to priority hospitals in the coming days,' Tedros said. 'The blood and plasma were delivered to Nasser Medical Complex's cold storage facility for onward distribution to hospitals facing critical shortages, amid a growing influx of injuries, many linked to incidents at food distribution sites.' Last week the WHO said only 17 of Gaza's 36 hospitals were minimally to partially functional, with the rest unable to function at all. Tedros said four WHO trucks were still at Kerem Shalom and more were on their way towards Gaza. 'However, these medical supplies are only a drop in the ocean. Aid at scale is essential to save lives,' he said. 'WHO calls for the immediate, unimpeded and sustained delivery of health aid into Gaza through all possible routes.' Israel began allowing supplies to trickle in at the end of May following its more than two-month total blockade, but distribution has been marred by chaotic scenes and near-daily reports of Israeli forces firing on people waiting to collect rations. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new US- and Israel-backed food distribution system, began handing out food in Gaza on May 26. But the UN and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the GHF – an officially private effort with opaque funding – over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives. Israel is pressing its bombardment of the territory in a military offensive it says is aimed at defeating the militant group Hamas, whose unprecedented October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war.
