Israel kills five medical personnel while another child freezes to death in Gaza | news

A doctor, a laboratory technician and two maintenance workers are among the dead while a fourth child dies within three days of the cold during the Israeli genocide.

Israel’s genocide led to the deaths of five staff members at one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, while another child froze to death in the besieged and bombed Palestinian enclave, the facility’s director said.

Hossam Abu Safia, Chairman Kamal Adwan Hospital In Beit Lahia, he said on Thursday that “among the martyrs is a doctor.”

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khudari, reporting from central Gaza, said a laboratory technician and two maintenance workers were among those killed in the attack.

“We know that the hospital is one of the only medical facilities still operational, operating with minimal human resources and a shortage of medical supplies,” she said.

“Israeli forces attacked the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, sent quadcopters into the hospital and opened fire on the Palestinians.”

The hospital stopped working weeks after it stopped working Almost daily attacks. Israeli forces previously killed the director of the hospital’s intensive care unit, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot, and wounded dozens of medical staff members in attacks on and near the facility.

Al-Khudari said that Palestinian rescue workers were unable to reach the bodies of the dead in the hospital. She added: “People are unable to bury these Palestinians who are killed by Israeli forces every day in northern Gaza.”

Israel launched a large-scale ground attack on the northern Gaza Strip on October 5, saying it aimed to prevent the Palestinian Hamas movement from reorganizing its ranks.

Since then, not enough humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and fuel, has been allowed into the area, leaving the remaining population on the brink of starvation.

The World Health Organization described the conditions in Kamal Adwan Hospital as “horrific” and said that it was operating at the “minimum.”

Another child freezes to death

Meanwhile, a fourth infant died Because of the extreme cold The Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, reported on Thursday

Medical sources said that the child died due to hypothermia in light of the deteriorating humanitarian conditions throughout the Strip.

Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, head of pediatricians at Nasser Hospital in the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip, said: “The tents do not protect against the cold, and it becomes very cold at night and there is no way to keep warm.”

During more than a year of Israeli attacks and aid shortages, many families in Gaza have been left without adequate shelter and resources to cope with the changing weather.

Lofa local health officials said food shortages among mothers were contributing to an increase in health problems among children, increasing pressure on medical facilities and emergency services.

The Israeli bombing and ground invasion of Gaza led to the deaths of more than 45,300 Palestinians, more than half of whom were women and children. The attack also caused widespread destruction and displaced about 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, often several times.

Hundreds of thousands of people crowded into camps along the coast with the arrival of the cold, rainy winter. Aid groups are struggling to deliver food and supplies, and said there are shortages of blankets, warm clothes and firewood.