Israeli attack kills 50 people searching for food in Gaza

(CLO) Dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed while searching for food during Israeli attacks on Gaza.

On December 9, Gaza health authorities said 50 people were killed the previous day and 84 others were injured when Israeli forces carried out three "massacres" in the territory.

An Israeli drone strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza early on Monday killed three people, according to sources. The victims were trying to leave their homes to search for food in a nearby neighborhood when they were targeted by a drone.

Palestinians outside Al-Aqsa Hospital carry the bodies of those killed in an Israeli airstrike. Photo: EPA

Jabalia has been under siege by Israel for 65 days, with thousands of Palestinians deprived of access to food and water, many starving to death.

An overnight Israeli strike on the southern city of Rafah also killed 10 people as they lined up to buy flour. With humanitarian aid supplies across the southern border limited, similar famine scenes to those in northern Gaza are occurring in the south.

In central Gaza, bodies also piled up at the Al-Aqsa Hospital morgue after the latest Israeli bombing of a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp. At least nine members of one family, mostly women and children, were killed in the attack.

Meanwhile, at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, hospital director Hussam Abu Safia said the lives of more than 100 patients were in danger after the supply of electricity, oxygen and water was cut off. Recent Israeli shelling and bombing have caused severe damage to the hospital and cut off water and electricity to some areas of the hospital.

"The situation is extremely dangerous. We have patients in the intensive care unit and others awaiting surgery. Access to the operating room will only be possible after the power and oxygen supply is restored," he said.

Mr. Abu Safia added that the hospital currently has 112 injured patients, including six in intensive care and 14 children.

Continued shelling near the hospital had "prevented us from carrying out repairs," he said.

Earlier on December 6, Israel said it was operating around the facility but did not directly fire on the hospital in Beit Lahiya, near the besieged Jabalia refugee camp.

The hospital is one of the last functioning medical facilities in the northern part of the territory. On December 6, an Israeli attack killed four of its staff.

According to local health authorities, the Israeli offensive has killed at least 44,758 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began; the majority of the victims were women and children.

Ngoc Anh (according to AJ)

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