DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s army struck the biggest hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday night time, killing one individual, wounding others and inflicting a big hearth, the territory’s Well being Ministry stated.
The strike hit the surgical constructing of Nasser Hospital within the metropolis of Khan Younis, the ministry stated, days after the ability was overwhelmed with dead and wounded when Israel resumed the battle in Gaza final week with a shock wave of airstrikes.
Israel’s army confirmed the strike on the hospital, saying it hit a Hamas militant working there. Israel blames civilian deaths on Hamas as a result of it operates in densely populated areas.
Like different medical amenities round Gaza, Nasser Hospital has been broken by Israeli raids and strikes all through the battle.
Greater than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed within the battle, the Well being Ministry stated earlier Sunday.
The army claimed to have “eradicated” dozens of militants since Israel ended a ceasefire Tuesday with strikes that killed a whole lot of individuals on one of many deadliest days in the 17-month war.
Israel’s unrest over Gaza and political points grew Sunday, with anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his authorities voted to precise no confidence within the legal professional normal, seen by many as a check on the power of his coalition.
“I’m apprehensive for the way forward for this nation. And I feel it has to cease. We’ve got to vary course,” stated Avital Halperin, one in every of a whole lot of protesters outdoors Netanyahu’s workplace. Police stated three had been arrested.
‘Displacement beneath hearth’
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Israel’s army ordered 1000’s of Palestinians to go away the closely destroyed Tel al-Sultan neighborhood within the southern metropolis of Rafah. They walked to Muwasi, a sprawling space of squalid tent camps. The battle has compelled most of Gaza’s inhabitants of over 2 million to flee inside the territory, often multiple times.
“It’s displacement beneath hearth,” stated Mustafa Gaber, a journalist who left along with his household. He stated tank and drone hearth echoed close by.
“The shells are falling amongst us and the bullets are (flying) above us,” stated Amal Nassar, additionally displaced. “The aged have been thrown into the streets. An previous girl was telling her son, ‘Go and go away me to die.’ The place will we go?”
“Sufficient is sufficient. We’re exhausted,” stated a fleeing Ayda Abu Shaer, as smoke rose within the distance.
The Palestinian Purple Crescent emergency service stated it misplaced contact with a 10-member workforce responding to the strikes in Rafah. Spokesperson Nebal Farsakh stated some had been wounded.
Israel’s army stated it had fired on advancing “suspicious automobiles” and later found some had been ambulances and hearth vans.
In Gaza Metropolis, an explosion hit subsequent to a tent camp the place individuals had been advised to evacuate. “My husband is blind and began working barefoot, and my kids had been working,” stated witness Nidaa Hassuna.
Strikes kill Hamas chief, ladies and youngsters
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Hamas stated Salah Bardawil, a well known member of its political bureau, was killed in a strike in Muwasi that additionally killed his spouse. Israel’s army confirmed it.
Hospitals in southern Gaza stated they obtained an extra 24 our bodies from strikes in a single day, together with a number of ladies and youngsters.
Gaza’s Well being Ministry stated 50,021 Palestinians have been killed within the battle, together with 673 individuals since Israel’s bombardment on Tuesday shattered the ceasefire.
Dr. Munir al-Boursh, the ministry’s normal director, stated the useless embrace 15,613 kids, with 872 of them beneath 1 yr previous.
The ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its rely however says ladies and youngsters make up over half the useless. Israel says it has killed round 20,000 fighters, with out offering proof.
Ceasefire in tatters
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The ceasefire that took maintain in January paused greater than a yr of combating ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault into Israel, by which militants killed some 1,200 individuals, largely civilians, and took 251 hostage. Most captives have been launched in ceasefire agreements or different offers.
Within the newest ceasefire’s first part, 25 Israeli hostages and the bodies of eight others had been launched in alternate for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli forces allowed a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals to return dwelling. There was a surge in humanitarian assist till Israel cut off all supplies to Gaza earlier this month to pressure Hamas to change the ceasefire settlement.
The edges had been supposed to start negotiations in early February on the ceasefire’s subsequent part, by which Hamas was to launch the remaining 59 hostages — 35 of them believed to be useless — in alternate for extra Palestinian prisoners, an enduring ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal. These talks by no means started.
New settlements within the West Financial institution
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Israel’s cupboard handed a measure Sunday creating 13 new settlements within the occupied West Financial institution by rezoning current ones, in keeping with Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, who’s in control of settlement development.
This brings the variety of settlements, thought of unlawful by the vast majority of the worldwide neighborhood, to 140, stated anti-settlement watchdog group Peace Now. They’ll now obtain impartial budgets from Israel and might elect their very own native governments, the group stated.
Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen sustain assaults
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In a separate growth, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who’re allied with Hamas, launched one other missile at Israel in a single day. The Israeli army stated it was intercepted, and there have been no experiences of casualties or harm.
The Houthis resumed assaults on Israel after it ended the Gaza ceasefire, portraying them as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians. Trump ordered the renewal of U.S. strikes on the rebels final week over its earlier assaults on worldwide transport within the Purple Sea.
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The rebels have stated they’re making an attempt to blockade Israel, however many of the ships they’ve focused don’t have any connection to the battle.
Magdy reported from Cairo. Related Press writers Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed.
