GAZA, (PIC)
On the 27th day of the ground operation launched by the Israeli occupation army in the northern Gaza Strip, more massacres and starvation of thousands of citizens, who refuse to leave their homes, unfolded. Dozens lost their lives due to continuous air and artillery bombardment.
On this day Thursday, Israeli warplanes bombed homes and residential blocks in Beit Lahiya, resulting in the martyrdom of 45 citizens, most of whom were women and children, according to medical sources.
The occupation forces again invaded the Jabalia camp and the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital and the Tal Al-Zaatar and Tal al-Rabi schools near the al-Fakhoura area, firing directly at the hospital and surrounding area with machine guns.
The occupation army also bombarded dozens of targets across all areas of northern Gaza Valley, which included residential apartments, gatherings of civilians, and shelter schools. Even the most crowded popular markets were hit by genocidal missiles.
This Thursday morning, the occupation army renewed its assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital just days after it was targeted by Israeli artillery. This came less than 24 hours after the Ministry of Health issued appeals to international organizations for surgical teams and ambulances to be sent to northern Gaza “before it is too late,” emphasizing the urgent need to open a corridor to evacuate the injured, who are transported by animal-drawn carts to besieged hospitals where they find no one to treat them. Previously, on October 26, the occupation army arrested the entire medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital and imposed a suffocating siege on Al-Awda Hospital.
Israeli warplanes targeted the third floor of Kamal Adwan Hospital, resulting in the martyrdom of four patients, including two children, and the burning of a medication storage room and medical supplies received just five days ago from the World Health Organization, halting surgical services.
The bombardment also struck the desalination station for the dialysis department, the engineering and maintenance section, and water tanks within the hospital, injuring several hospital staff due to the continuous shelling.
In response, the administration of Kamal Adwan Hospital announced the complete cessation of surgical services due to the ongoing and renewed Israeli aggression on the hospital.
Cessation of surgical operations
The Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, reported that over 1,200 martyrs have fallen in northern Gaza, which has been under wide-scale aggression, gunfire blockade, and unprecedented starvation for 27 days.
Al-Bursh stated in media remarks that the occupation army continues to prevent the entry of medical supplies into northern Gaza since the beginning of the blockade on it, emphasizing that the occupation army continues to commit massacres and target shelters in northern Gaza while bombing civilians in Beit Lahiya who refused to leave and to obey forced evacuation orders.
He added, “The occupation army isolates citizens in the area and commits massacres in silence. We were shocked by the burning of a house containing an entire family, and medical teams only reached it 18 hours after the incident.”
In this context, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hossam Abu Safiya, said in media remarks, “We were forced to leave patients and injured individuals to die due to the halting of surgical operations.” He confirmed that four hospital staff members were injured from burns caused by shelling that targeted the third floor of the hospital, noting that continuous bombardment hit the hospital’s surroundings throughout the night.
Abu Safiya pointed out that the bombing of the hospital caused fires in sections containing injured patients and medical supplies, adding, “The situation is catastrophic; we are living in a disaster-stricken area, and we provide the bare minimum of treatment.”
He reiterated his call for international organizations to allow ambulances into the hospital to transport the wounded, noting that these continuous appeals have been “in vain” as there has been no action so far.
For 27 days, northern Gaza has been under heavy bombing, as Israeli forces have intensified ethnic cleansing operations through firepower, besieging residents in Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia, depriving them of essential supplies that could save their lives, amidst explosions and demolitions of homes and residential blocks in an attempt to forcibly displace them.
Since the beginning of the occupation army’s third ground assault on northern Gaza, more than 1,250 martyrs have been reported in northern Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health, while the occupation has arrested over 600 citizens from the northern area during the ongoing siege, according to human rights organizations.
Northern Gaza is suffering from dire conditions, with a shortage of drinking water, medicine, and food supplies, along with restrictions on aid deliveries and the arrival of ambulances and civil defense vehicles, which have been targeted, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
High price
Amid all this, the resistance continues to fiercely confront the occupying army, which has made it the main target of the third ground assault on northern Gaza, justifying its actions by claiming to eliminate it and prevent it from regaining its strength.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced via their Telegram platform that their fighters successfully targeted a “Achzarit” troop carrier with a “Yassin 105” missile, a “Hummer” with an anti-tank missile, and a military bulldozer of type (D9) with an explosive device near the eastern cemetery in Gaza City.
A day earlier, the resistance succeeded in inflicting painful losses on the occupying army, causing a state of hysteria among the military correspondents of the occupation’s channels, one of whom called for “the removal of Jabalia camp from existence and turning it into ruins,” in response to a well-executed ambush by the resistance against soldiers and officers from the “Unit 888” special forces in the camp.
Four soldiers and an officer from a commando unit known as the “Ghosts” or “multidimensional unit” were killed while conducting operations in a house within the camp, which the resistance had previously booby-trapped without being discovered by the special forces.
Over the past two days, the armed wings of resistance factions announced their responsibility for detonating around eight vehicles, sniping a soldier, and targeting advancing forces in northern Gaza with mortar fire. Additionally, the enemy’s army announced the death of a battalion deputy who had been injured in the assassination of “Brigade 401” commander, Ihsan Daqsa, days ago.
The significant losses within the ranks of the occupying army in northern Gaza demonstrate the resistance’s ability to conceal and maneuver through guerrilla warfare, exhausting the army’s capacity to continue and depriving it of the opportunity to achieve its objectives of subjugating the population, despite the great losses and suffering endured by civilians.
