Yesterday (Saturday), Israel began the forced displacement of hundreds of Palestinians who took refuge in the Shifa medical complex in Gaza City, coinciding with a terrible bombing that targeted the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip .
While the Israeli army announced a series of “achievements” and claimed to have killed Hamas officials, the “Al-Qassam Brigades” announced the killing of more of its soldiers and the destruction of tanks and vehicles. In the evening the Israeli army acknowledged the killing of six of its members, including three officers.
Sources from the Gaza factions confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Israeli army advanced on the outskirts of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and in Jabalia, but faced violent resistance.
Yesterday the Gaza Ministry of Health announced that at least 80 people were killed in two separate Israeli raids in the Jabalia camp. A Hamas ministry official said “at least 50” people were killed in a dawn bombing that targeted the UN-run Al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia, prompting widespread condemnation, including from Saudi Arabia which said the rejection of the Kingdom. of the systematic targeting of civilians and its demand It is necessary to ensure the protection of humanitarian facilities and their workers, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For his part, the general commissioner of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, condemned the “horrible” raids against the agency’s schools in the Gaza Strip that host displaced people. Footage circulated on social media showed blood-covered bodies lying on the ground in the school’s corridors and classrooms.
In a separate raid targeting a house in Jabalia camp, 32 people from the Abu Habal family were killed, including 19 children.
This came as the Israeli army said it had expanded the scope of the evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip at the request of the hospital’s director. He added that if some Gazans, who have taken refuge in the area surrounding the Strip’s largest hospital, want to leave, they will be offered safe passage. But Palestinians who left the Shifa compound said they were forcibly removed.
Meanwhile, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said the ministerial committee mandated by the Arab-Islamic emergency summit will begin its international tour on Monday, aiming to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza , speed up the arrival of aid and end the war. .
In Manama, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi announced his country’s rejection of any possibility of deploying Arab forces in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war, stating that “after discussing this issue with many and with almost all our Arab brothers, Arab forces will not head to Gaza.”
In Cairo, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced yesterday that she opposes the “forced displacement” of Palestinians, following her meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.