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Indonesian Hospital, Beit Lahia. Source: Screenshot. Published by IMEMC News

Rubble on a street in Jabalia earlier this month. Source: Getty Images Published by BBC 10/19/2024.

People survey the destruction at Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp following Israeli strikes, earlier this week. Credit: Reuters TV. Published by Haaretz

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by IMEMC News
Oct 19, 2024

Early Saturday, the Israeli army besieged the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, targeting anyone moving in its vicinity. medical sources have confirmed.

The sources reported that Israeli tanks surrounded the hospital, fired shells at its facilities, and caused the generator to stop working due to gunfire directed at the hospital,

They added that Israeli tanks shelled the second and third floors, destroying part of the hospital’s wall.

|Gaza Day 379: Israeli Bombing Kills Family in central Gaza; 64 Killed Since Friday|

For the 15th consecutive day, the Israeli army continued its renewed air, land, and sea bombardment of northern Gaza, preventing food, water, medicine, and fuel supplies, demolishing homes, and obliterating entire residential blocks.

On October 6th, the Israeli army began enforcing a severe blockade on northern Gaza, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation amid the ongoing aggression since October 7, 2023.

The hospital experienced a similar siege in November 2023 when it was directly bombed and invaded, and several wounded were killed and arrested.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has maintained its offensive on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 42,500 Palestinians and injuries to 99,546 others, the majority of whom are children and women. These figures remain preliminary, as thousands remain unaccounted for beneath the rubble.
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Israeli Strike on Hospital in Jabalya in Northern Gaza Kills 33, Including at Least 21 Women and Children

The death toll in the strike on the Indonesian Hospital is expected to rise, as dozens are trapped under rubble, according to Hamas-run Gaza government media office

by Jack Khoury and Reuters
Published by Haaretz
Oct 19, 2024 8:54 am IDT

33 people were killed and 85 wounded in an Israeli strike on the Indonesian Hospital in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, including at least 21 women and children, medics said.

According to medical staff, the IDF surrounded the hospital and cut off its electricity supply. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office and Palestinian news agency WAFA said the death toll from the strikes could rise because some people were believed to be trapped under the rubble, with rescue teams unable to reach them.

Medical sources in Gaza added that nearby homes were also targeted, and residents described Israeli tanks advancing toward the city center amidst ongoing airstrikes.

Other Israeli strikes killed at least 39 Palestinians across Gaza on Friday, 20 of them in Jabalya, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said.

Residents of Jabalya said Israeli tanks had reached the heart of the camp after pushing through suburbs and residential districts. They said the Israeli army was destroying dozens of houses daily, from the air and the ground, and by placing bombs in buildings then detonating them remotely.

The Israeli military said its forces, which have been operating in Jabalya for the past two weeks, killed dozens of militants in close-quarters combat on Thursday, carried out aerial strikes and dismantled military infrastructure.

The Israeli military says its operation in Jabalya is intended to stop Hamas fighters regrouping for more attacks.

Residents said Israeli forces had effectively isolated the far northern Gazan towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalya, and Beit Lahiya from Gaza City, blocking movement except for those families heeding evacuation orders and leaving the three towns.

They said communications and internet services had been cut, disrupting rescue operations.
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Israeli strikes said to have killed dozens in Gaza

by Rushdi Abualouf
Gaza Correspondent

Jaroslav Lukiv and Patrick Jackson
BBC News

Reporting from Istanbul

Israeli strikes have killed at least 33 people including 21 women at a refugee camp in northern Gaza, the strip's Hamas-run authorities say.

More than 85 people were said to be injured, some seriously, as homes belonging to three families in the camp were hit.

A video circulating on social media - which the BBC has not verified - appears to show bodies wrapped in white shrouds laid out in the courtyard of al-Awda Hospital.

Israeli forces have besieged the densely-populated Jabalia refugee camp for weeks.

The director of al-Awda hospital said it had experienced an overwhelming influx of casualties, leaving hospital wards "completely full" with many of the injured "receiving treatment on the floor.”

Nearby in Beit Lahia, the Indonesian Hospital came under “heavy gunfire” from Israeli forces on Saturday, the Hamas-run health ministry said.

The ministry said more than 40 patients, as well as medical staff, were inside the hospital, and later said two people had died due to an "outage of electricity" and lack of "medical supplies".

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were operating near the hospital and there "was no intentional fire directed at it".

Local sources indicate that northern Gaza is effectively isolated, with telecommunications and internet services severed in the region.

About 400,000 people have been trapped inside Jabalia camp with little food or water for more than two weeks.

The head of the UN's Office for Humanitarian Assistance, Georgios Petropoulos, told the BBC's Newshour programme that families in Jabalia were enduring "atrocious conditions".

"We can't hit the alarm bell hard enough about how dire and dangerous the situation for civilians there is," he said, speaking from Rafah in southern Gaza.

Israel said it had sent about 30 lorries of supplies into northern Gaza on Friday including food, water, medical supplies and shelter equipment but local health officials told Reuters aid had not been reaching the worst-affected areas such as Jabalia.

Israel has repeatedly denied it is preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza but the US has told it to boost access or risk having some American military assistance cut off.

An Israeli minister, Amichai Chikli, told the BBC Israel had "blockaded" parts of northern Gaza, which include Jabalia.

"We allowed the civilian population to escape into the safe zone, and we prevented supplies to enter the blockade region," he told the Newshour programme.

He insisted this was "legal according to the international law".

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