31 premature babies have been evacuated from Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza

The Hamas government announced on Sunday that 13,000 people have been killed in Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since the war broke out.

Among the deaths counted so far there are over 5,500 children, 3,500 women and 30,000 injured. While the government press office said that Israeli attacks have targeted 60% of residential units in the Gaza Strip since the war began on the 7th of last month.

An office spokesperson said during a news conference that 43,000 housing units were completely destroyed by Israeli raids, while 225,000 housing units were partially demolished, “which means that approximately 60% of the housing units in the Gaza Strip have been completely or partially demolished.” wanted.”

The German news agency quoted the spokesperson as saying that the number of government buildings destroyed amounted to 97 and 262 schools, of which 65 schools were out of service, while the number of completely destroyed mosques reached 83 mosques and 166 partially destroyed mosques. as well as targeting 3 churches.

He explained that the number of reports of people missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings or in the streets and who cannot be recovered has exceeded 6,000 reports, including more than 4,000 children and women, underlining that 201 health workers, 22 from civil protection and 60 journalists were killed.

He highlighted that 25 hospitals and 52 health centers are out of service, while 55 ambulances have been targeted and dozens are out of service due to lack of fuel.

Meanwhile, Hamas’ Health Ministry reported Sunday that 41 members of a family were killed in an Israeli attack that targeted their home in a neighborhood in central Gaza City. The ministry has published the list of names of 41 people belonging to the “Malika family”, killed in the dawn attack in the Zaytoun neighborhood, the scene of violent morning clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters. a correspondent from Agence France-Presse, who also referred to airstrikes.

Gaza health officials also said at least 11 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by an Israeli airstrike that hit a house in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical and security sources announced that Israeli warplanes launched several raids on a residential square in the Tal al-Zaatar area, in the city of Beit Lahia. This left dozens dead and injured, most of whom are still under the rubble, according to the German news agency. According to sources, the raids have destroyed a large number of nearby houses, while rescuers and residents of the area are searching with primitive means for survivors under the rubble.

Before that, medical sources announced that 15 Palestinians; Among them are two journalists, killed following an Israeli bombing on an inhabited house in the Bureij refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip. According to sources, Israeli warplanes destroyed 4 mosques in the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip. It was also announced that 6 people were killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza.

In another context, the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that ambulance crews were able, (Sunday), in coordination with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) , to evacuate 31 premature babies from Al-Shifa Hospital. According to the Red Crescent, premature babies were placed in ambulances. In preparation for their transfer to the Emirates Hospital in Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.

In the same context, Doctors Without Borders said (Sunday) that one person was killed and another was injured after its convoy was attacked in the Gaza Strip. The organization said in a statement that the convoy was carrying 137 of its employees and their families, stressing that the dead and injured were members of its employees’ families, according to the Arab World News Agency.

The organization said members of the convoy were stuck for a week in one of the organization’s headquarters, near the Al-Shifa medical complex, expressing its condemnation “in the strongest terms” of the attack, which it described as “deliberate”.

Yesterday the Israeli army arrested 100 people from Gaza belonging to various organizations and transferred them to Israel for investigation. Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee said (Sunday) in his report on Platform “X” that Israeli forces have conducted dozens of investigations in areas of ground operations in Gaza. Among those transferred to Israel, 3 participated in the October 7 attack on Israeli towns and camps adjacent to the Gaza Strip.