Israeli forces have launched deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip, including in Deir el Bala, Magazi, Nuseyrat refugee camps, Gaza City and Jabalia refugee camps, where Doctors Without Borders said thousands of people were trapped.
Palestinian medics said Israeli attacks killed at least 41 people across Gaza on Friday, with nearly half of the deaths occurring in Jabalia, northern Gaza, where Israeli forces are waging a brutal ground offensive.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said six people were killed in an airstrike on a house owned by the al-Daya family southwest of Gaza City on Friday evening.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Bala in central Gaza, said the continued attacks “are all leading to one conclusion.” In other words, genocide is being committed without a clear purpose.
“If you look at the deaths arriving at Deir el Bala hospital, the pattern is the same, with women and children making up the majority,” Mahmoud said.
“If you’re lucky, you’ll arrive here safely.”
The international charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said Friday that thousands of people had been trapped in the Jabalia refugee camp as a result of the Israeli attack.
“No one can come in or go out. Anyone who tries will be shot,” MSF project coordinator Sarah Vuylsteke told X.
Five MSF workers were trapped in Jabalia, she said.
“I don’t know what to do. At any moment we may die. People are starving. “I’m afraid to stay, and I’m afraid to leave.” She quoted Heydar, a Doctors Without Borders driver:
Citing medical sources, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the deaths of at least 15 people in Jabalia after dawn were due to Israeli airstrikes targeting various areas, including a school sheltering refugees.
The Gaza Civil Defense said dozens of people were injured in an Israeli quadcopter attack at the same school. Civil defense teams were able to transport 15 people to Kamal Adwan Hospital as efforts continued to evacuate the injured, Vassal said.
‘catastrophic’ situation
In addition to Jabalia, the Israeli army also dispatched troops to nearby Beit Hanun and Beit Lahiya.
Palestinian health authorities said at least 130 people were killed in the attack in the northern Gaza Strip, and the military ordered residents of the area to evacuate, where the United Nations estimates more than 400,000 people are trapped.
Northern Gaza has previously seen several ground and air attacks that left the region’s main hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, barely functional. Previously it had been surrounded, raided and bombarded.
Earlier this week, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital and two other medical facilities in the north.
The Gaza government’s press office warned in a statement on Friday that Kamal Adwan’s situation was “catastrophic” and said the coming hours would have a decisive impact on the lives of many children currently in intensive care.
Overcrowding and shortages of much-needed fuel have added to many challenges, the statement said. Israel continues to block vital border crossings and prevent fuel from reaching the north.
The secretariat urged the international community to intervene “to save what can be saved.”
Meanwhile, the United States said it had “genuine concerns” that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid from reaching the northern Gaza Strip.
The United States has spent at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the Gaza war began last October, according to a report from Brown University’s Cost of War Project released Monday.
UN officials have also expressed concern that the ongoing Israeli offensive and evacuation orders in the northern Gaza Strip could disrupt the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign, which is scheduled to begin next week.
