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Not fewer than 30 people were killed and many injured within a day on Wednesday and Thursday in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said, as the Israeli military pushed deeper into parts of Khan Younis that it had previously designated as humanitarian zones for civilians fleeing the fighting.
A renewed offensive by the Israel military that started in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis earlier this week, was described as targeting Hamas forces whom it accused of embedding fighters among civilians.
According to the photos taken by Agence France-Presse photographers showed bloodied children being rushed in for care at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis
Mohammad Saqer, the director of nursing at Nasser Hospital, said he had treated three children for severe blast wounds, which he said were most likely from bombardment. Dr Saqer, who has worked at the medical centre for 18 years, said few shipments of medicine and fuel were arriving at the hospital, making treatment difficult.
“So many dead, so many wounded, not enough beds,” Dr. Saqer said. “The situation’s disastrous. We’re rationing electricity, turning off air conditioning, trying to save what we can.”
Patients at the facility have been forced to share beds, and the hospital was “under enormous strain as the killing, wounding and maiming of people continues relentlessly in southern Gaza,” the aid group Doctors Without Borders wrote on social media earlier in the week.
More than 150,000 people have fled Khan Younis on Monday alone, the day the renewed Israeli offensive began, and that “large-scale displacement” from the area was ongoing, UN agencies have said.
The report said, that in Al-Mawasi, the coastal town where the Israeli military ordered Khan Younis residents to go, there is “no space for even a single tent due to the overwhelming number of people desperate for safety,” the Palestinian Red Crescent said. The group said that one of its ambulances came under fire on Thursday as medics were trying to assist injured civilians.
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Fighting in recent days has centred around three towns near the city of Khan Younis — Bani Suaila, Al Zanna and Al Qarara. On Wednesday, the Israeli military discovered the bodies of five Israelis in Al Qarara who had been killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The bodies were found in a tunnel used by militants.
“Hamas exploited the humanitarian area and used it to hold our hostages captive,” the military said in a statement on social media. Hamas did not issue a response on its social media channels.
Israeli officials say 115 hostages remain in Gaza, including roughly 40 who are presumed dead.
The military said on Thursday that Hamas had launched several rockets toward Israel from the humanitarian area in Khan Younis earlier in the day. But the strike did not reach Israel and at least one rocket hit a U.N.-run school in Al Qarara, killing two people and injuring several others, the military said.
A Palestinian boy weeps outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on Thursday..Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Schools have not been operating during the war and most of them have become shelters for displaced people. UNRWA, the United Nations’ main relief group for Palestinians that runs schools, did not confirm the attack.
The Israeli military said its forces operating in Khan Younis had killed dozens of Hamas militants over the past day and struck more than 60 terror targets.
Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli military strikes on areas in eastern Khan Younis killed at least 14 people early Thursday, with airstrikes reported in southern Gaza and tanks advancing in central Rafah.
Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense, said Israeli forces had killed at least 17 people on Thursday in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and in Khan Younis, Israeli snipers shot and killed at least one person while he was moving down Salah al-Din Street, Gaza’s main north-south route, he said. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the incident.
據報道，以色列軍隊在汗尤尼斯發動新一輪攻勢，一天內造成不少於 30 人死亡
當地衛生官員稱，週三和週四，加薩地帶的一天之內就有不少於30 人死亡，多人受傷，以色列軍隊深入推進汗尤尼斯部分地區，此前以色列曾將這些地區指定為收容逃離以色列的平民的人道區。
以色列軍方本週稍早在加薩南部城市汗尤尼斯發起了新一輪攻勢，據稱目標是哈馬斯部隊，以色列指責哈馬斯部隊在平民中安插武裝分子。
法新社攝影師拍攝的照片顯示，血跡斑斑的兒童被緊急送往汗尤尼斯的納賽爾醫療中心接受治療。
納賽爾醫院的護理主任穆罕默德·薩克爾表示，他曾治療過三名嚴重爆炸傷的兒童，他說這很可能是轟炸造成的。 在該醫療中心工作了 18 年的薩克爾醫生表示，到達醫院的藥物和燃料很少，這給治療帶來了困難。
「這麼多人死亡，這麼多人受傷，床位不夠，」薩克爾博士說。 “情況是災難性的。 我們正在實施限電，關閉空調，盡力節省開支。
援助組織「無國界醫生」本週稍早在社群媒體上寫道，該機構的病人被迫共用床位，醫院「承受著巨大的壓力，因為加薩南部不斷發生無情的殺戮、傷害和殘害」。
聯合國表示，僅在週一，以色列重新發動攻擊的當天，就有 15 萬人逃離汗尤尼斯，該地區的「大規模流離失所」仍在繼續。
報告稱，在以色列軍方命令汗尤尼斯居民撤離的沿海城鎮馬瓦西，“由於絕大多數人迫切需要安全，連一個帳篷都沒有空間”，巴勒斯坦紅新月會表示。 該組織表示，週四，當醫務人員試圖救助受傷平民時，其一輛救護車遭到槍擊。
最近幾天的戰鬥集中在汗尤尼斯市附近的三個城鎮——巴尼蘇埃拉(Bani Suaila)、阿爾扎納(Al Zanna)和阿爾卡拉拉(Al Qarara)。 週三，以色列軍方在卡拉拉發現了五名以色列人的屍體，他們在哈馬斯 10 月 7 日對以色列的襲擊中被殺。 這些屍體是在武裝分子使用的隧道中發現的。
軍方在社交媒體上的聲明中表示：“哈馬斯利用人道主義地區並利用它來扣押我們的人質。” 哈馬斯沒有在其社交媒體頻道上發表回應。
以色列官員稱，115 名人質仍留在加沙，其中約 40 名人質被推定死亡。
軍方週四表示，哈馬斯當天稍早從汗尤尼斯的人道主義地區向以色列發射了幾枚火箭。 但軍方表示，這次攻擊並未到達以色列，至少一枚火箭擊中了卡拉拉一所聯合國開辦的學校，造成兩人死亡、多人受傷。
戰爭期間學校沒有開學，其中大部分已成為流離失所者的避難所。 近東救濟工程處是聯合國負責管理學校的巴勒斯坦人主要救援組織，但沒有證實這起攻擊事件。
以色列軍方表示，過去一天，其在汗尤尼斯的部隊殺死了數十名哈馬斯武裝分子，並襲擊了60多個恐怖目標。
加薩衛生部表示，週四早些時候，以色列對汗尤尼斯東部地區的軍事打擊造成至少14人死亡，據報道加薩南部發動了空襲，坦克向拉法中部推進。
巴勒斯坦民防發言人馬哈茂德·巴薩爾表示，週四，以色列軍隊在加薩中部代爾巴拉赫和汗尤尼斯移動時開槍打死了至少 17 人。路線薩拉丁街（Salah al-Din Street）行駛。 以色列軍方沒有立即回應有關該事件的置評請求。
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