More than 50 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing targeting the Gaza Strip, and this coincided with the deterioration of living conditions in the northern Strip, and the World Health Organization confirmed that the Nasser Medical Complex had been out of service after being besieged for days by the occupation forces.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that dozens of people had been killed since yesterday evening in an Israeli bombing that targeted 10 homes in various areas in the central Gaza Strip.

He explained that one of the targeted houses belonged to the Hamad family in the Al-Zawaida area, where at least 13 people were killed, while dozens are still under the rubble.

The reporter confirmed the death of a woman and the injury of civilians, most of them children, when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the home of the Al-Tawashi family in Deir Al-Balah, noting that the condition of some of the injured is serious in light of the lack of personnel and the scarcity of medical supplies.

He pointed out that two Palestinians were killed and injured in a raid that hit a house in the Musalaba area, south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in the central Gaza Strip.

Rafah and Netanyahu's threats

In Rafah in the south, Al Jazeera's correspondent said that Israeli gunboats bombed the city's coast.

The correspondent explained earlier that 7 Palestinians were killed and others, including children, were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted agricultural land housing displaced people north of Rafah.

This coincided with statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he renewed his insistence on launching a ground operation in Rafah. He said, "Everyone who wants to prevent us from carrying out an operation in Rafah is basically telling us, 'Lose the war. I will not surrender to that.'"

Netanyahu's statement came in response to a torrent of international calls, including from the United States, Israel's main ally, not to proceed with a military operation in Rafah, where about 1.4 million Palestinians are gathered, most of whom are displaced.

Fears in the north

Meanwhile, fears are increasing of the possibility of famine in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern regions, due to the severe food shortage, due to the continued Israeli siege and the occupation forces preventing the entry of aid.

In Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Muhammad Nassar (50 years old) told Agence France-Presse, “We will not die from bombs, but from hunger.”

On the other hand, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza was out of service after a week-long siege followed by continuous raids.

Ghebreyesus explained that the World Health Organization team was not allowed - yesterday, Saturday and the day before yesterday, Friday - to enter the hospital to assess the patients’ conditions and urgent medical needs, even though the team arrived there to deliver fuel in cooperation with partners.

He pointed out that about 200 patients are still inside the hospital, at least 20 of whom need to be transferred urgently to other hospitals to receive health care. He warned that the cost of delaying their transfer would be the cost of their lives, calling for facilitating access to patients and admission to the hospital.

This hospital is one of 11 hospitals still in service out of 36 medical facilities in the Gaza Strip before the war.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies