Israeli Strikes Kill Six in Central Gaza As Hospital Crisis Deepens

Palestinian medical officials reported that Israeli strikes hit multiple locations in central Gaza overnight, killing six people, including Raed Ghabaien, who had been released from Israeli detention in 2014.

According to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Ghabaien and his wife died when an Israeli strike hit their tent in the central town of Zuweida.

Two other individuals were killed late Sunday when a strike hit their house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, while another two were killed in the Wadi Gaza area early Monday.

An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the hospital morgue.

Funeral services were held Monday morning for the six victims, as well as for nine others killed the previous day in a strike on the Bureij refugee camp.

In northern Gaza, the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safia, warned that over 100 patients’ lives were at risk due to severe damage caused by recent Israeli shelling and bombing.

“The situation is extremely dangerous,” Abu Safia said.

“We have patients in the intensive care unit and others awaiting surgeries. Access to the operating rooms is only possible after restoring electricity and oxygen supply.”

Abu Safia said the hospital currently has 112 wounded patients, including six in intensive care and 14 children.

He added that ongoing shelling near the facility was “preventing us from conducting repairs.”

Israel said on Friday that its forces were operating in the vicinity of the hospital in Beit Lahiya, near the besieged Jabalia refugee camp, but denied targeting the facility directly.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital remains one of the last operational medical facilities in northern Gaza.

On Friday, an Israeli attack killed four staff members at the hospital.

The ongoing Israeli genocide, which began in October, has killed over 44,500 Palestinians, according to local health authorities.

The health officials say most of the casualties are women and children.