Israel killed 243 Palestinians in last 24 hours, 6 dead in attack on Al-Shifa hospital

Gaza Ministry of Health: 10,812 Gazans killed, including 4,412 children

At least 10,812 Gazans, including 4,412 children, have been killed in Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry said. That ministry is part of Hamas, but the death figures it publishes are usually reliable.

However, much of Gaza’s health infrastructure has been destroyed by intensive Israeli bombing, so it is quite possible that the actual number of deaths is higher than the number of confirmed deaths.

Israel killed 243 Palestinians in last 24 hours, 6 dead in attack on Al-Shifa hospital

At least 243 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours. The report this United Nations Thursday. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA and news channel Al Jazeera the Israeli army kills six Palestinians in an airstrike on Al-Shifa hospital. It is considered the largest remaining medical facility in Gaza City where several Palestinian civilians are sheltering. Israel also carried out bombings at numerous other locations, especially near medical facilities.

Although the Israeli army usually places its attacks in the context of counter-terrorism, there was no communication about the night attacks. The Palestinian death toll is in favor NRC cannot be independently verified.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the attack at Al-Shifa Hospital through director Omar Shakir, who is responsible for the Israel-Palestine region. “Hospitals must always be protected. No area is a free fire zone.” The human rights organization has repeatedly warned of the “serious risks” that Israeli attack waves pose to Palestinians seeking shelter in hospitals from the almost incessant airstrikes. Shakir on Friday once again called on world leaders to take action “to prevent further mass atrocities.”

Medical facilities not safe
According to HRW, the Israeli army is moving deeper into Gaza City, less than two kilometers from the stricken hospital “where the staff is overwhelmed due to the large number of patients amid the heavy bombardments.” Other medical facilities in the Gaza Strip were also not safe from the Israeli airstrikes on Friday night. For example, the Palestinian Red Crescent, the local branch of the Red Cross, reports that the Israeli army has “forcibly bombed” the Tal al-Hawa area in northern Gaza near Al-Quds hospital.

Al Jazeera also reports bombings near another medical center, the Al-Awda hospital in Tal al-Zaatar, also in northern Gaza. Images that the Arabic channel publishesshow next to a damaged ambulance how several rescuers from the organization took cover from a series of explosions. The area around the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza City, which was damaged by an Israeli airstrike at the end of October, was also said to have come under fire on Friday night.

Netanyahu: Israel does not want to occupy or govern Gaza

Israel does not seek to conquer, occupy or rule Gaza after the war against Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this on Thursday to the American television channel Fox. According to him, a “credible fighting force” is needed that can enter the area in the event of a military threat. This is reported by the Reuters news agency.

Earlier this week, Netanyahu said Israel will be responsible for Gaza’s security indefinitely. That statement was met with resistance from the United States, Israel’s most important ally. The US is against an Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip after the war.

According to Netanyahu, there must be a civilian government in Gaza. Israel will ensure that an attack like the one on October 7 does not happen again, he told Fox. “So we must have a credible force that will enter Gaza if necessary,” Netanyahu said.

Washington believes that the Palestinian Authority, which has limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, should return to Gaza after the war. Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007. Palestinian officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas, say a return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza should be accompanied by a political solution that ends Israel’s occupation of the areas Israel captured in 1967.

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