Despite ‘humanitarian pause’ decision, Israel attacks Gaza

The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that it stopped coordinating with the World Health Organization (WHO) the evacuation of patients and medical equipment in hospitals in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli army detained health workers.

Israeli forces reportedly detained Mohammed Abu Silmiyye, director of the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli administration announced that it received the list of Israeli prisoners expected to be released within the framework of the humanitarian pause in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

ATTACK ON SCHOOL: 27 DEAD

27 people were killed and 93 injured in the airstrike carried out by Israeli warplanes against the Abu Hussein School of the United Nations (UN) Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Cibaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to information from the official Palestinian agency WAFA, at least 11 people were killed and many people were injured in airstrikes carried out by Israeli warplanes against civilian settlements in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

HOSPITALS WERE THE TARGET

The Israeli army attacked the main generator of the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Health Ministry reported that the hospital was exposed to “severe shelling” by the Israeli army and that the lives of 200 wounded people and medical staff were feared.

The Israeli army attacked the Indonesian hospital with heavy fire, killing a wounded woman and injuring at least three people.

However, Hamas’ military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and the Islamic Jihad Movement’s military wing, Al-Quds Seriyye, announced that they attacked Israeli military vehicles and soldiers in different parts of the Gaza Strip. .

Before the humanitarian pause went into effect, the Israeli army attacked the part of the campus housing Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with a high-impact bomb, which it claimed was the “tunnel infrastructure.” “.

THE HUMANITARIAN SEARCH HAS BEGAN

With the agreement between Hamas and Israel, a humanitarian pause has begun that will stop the attacks on Gaza for 4 days and will allow the exchange of prisoners and humanitarian aid.

According to the agreement reached between the parties, 150 Palestinians in Israeli prisons will be released in exchange for 50 Israeli prisoners held by Hamas.

According to the agreement, 13 Israeli women and children from the same families, who will be released from Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip on the first day, will head towards the Rafah border gate at 4:00 p.m. local time.

However, one person was killed and many injured as the Israeli army opened fire on Palestinians trying to return from the south to the north of the Gaza Strip, where there was a humanitarian breakdown in the conflict.

However, as the humanitarian pause came into effect in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued its incursions into the occupied West Bank.

TRUCKS LOADED WITH GASOLINE, FUEL AND AID ARE IN GAZA

It was reported that trucks loaded with fuel began entering the Gaza Strip from Egypt under the “humanitarian pause in hostilities agreement” reached by Hamas and Israel.

According to the written statement of the Israeli army, in the morning, 4 tankers with fuel and 4 tankers with natural gas suitable for domestic use were delivered to the UN delegation in the southern Gaza Strip from the Rafah border gate. in Egypt.

Wail Abu Muhsin, media director of the Rafah border gate between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, said in a statement to the AA correspondent that 60 trucks loaded with gasoline, fuel and aid have entered Gaza since morning.

Abu Muhsin stated that “today 4 trucks with 84 tons of gas and 3 trucks with 150,000 tons of fuel will enter Gaza.”

It is planned that 130,000 liters of diesel fuel and 4 trucks of gas will be delivered daily to Gaza during the humanitarian pause. 230 aid trucks loaded with food, humanitarian aid and medical supplies are expected to enter Gaza throughout Friday.

The Gaza Strip needs 400,000 liters of fuel per day, that is, 500 trucks, under normal conditions.

LATEST SITUATION IN GAZA

While Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive attack on the morning of October 7, claiming to “respond to Israel’s constant violations against the Palestinians and their sacred values, especially the Masjid al-Aqsa”, the Israeli army launched intense aerial bombardments on the Gaza Strip.

It was announced that 1,200 Israelis, including more than 310 soldiers, were killed and 5,132 people were injured in the attacks in Israel on October 7.

According to the Israeli army, 70 Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes in Gaza and 6 on the Lebanese border since October 7.

According to Israel, there are 239 Israeli prisoners held by the Qassam Brigades.

According to the Gaza government, 14,854 people, including more than 6,150 children and more than 4,000 women, have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks since October 7.

Since October 7, 231 Palestinians have lost their lives in attacks by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

The Israeli army attacked the campuses or main buildings of dozens of Gaza hospitals, where tens of thousands of wounded and civilians took refuge, to force their evacuation. Some hospitals were raided during the occupation. Hundreds of people were killed and injured in the attacks.

85 Hezbollah members have been killed in clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah on the border since October 8. (AA)