GAZA: Health officials in Gaza have said that Israeli troops surrounded and shelled the Indonesian Hospital in the territory’s northern town of Beit Lahia on Saturday.
The hospital’s director Marwan Sultan said that Israel’s tanks have completely surrounded the health facility, cut off power and shelled the hospital, attacking the second and third floors with artillery. The official said that there are serious risks to staff as well as patients.
Meanwhile, in a separate statement, Gaza’s health ministry said Israel had attacked the upper floors, saying there were over 40 patients and injured in addition to the medical staff present. It said that heavy firing toward the hospital and its courtyard had also sparked a state of panic among staff and patients.
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Israel has launched a new operation in northern Gaza earlier this month, claiming it was targeting Hamas who were regrouping there.
Gaza’s civil defense agency has said that an Israeli airstrike near Jabalia in the territory’s north killed around 33 people at a refugee camp overnight from Friday to Saturday. The civil defense agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal has announced “33 deaths and dozens of injured,” while a health source at the Al-Awda hospital said that more than 70 people were wounded in the Israeli strike.
