More than 43,020 Palestinians have been killed and 101,110 injured in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023, the Gaza health ministry announced in a statement on Monday.

It said that at least 19 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes and bombardment on Monday, 13 of them in the north of the shattered coastal territory. Israeli tanks thrust deeper into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, in what the Israeli military claimed were operations to root out Hamas members.

The Israeli military claimed soldiers captured around 100 suspected Hamas members in a raid into Kamal Adwan hospital in the Jabalia camp. Hamas and medics reject the Israeli claim.

The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said around 100,000 people were marooned in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun without medical or food supplies.

The emergency service said its operations had ground to a halt because of the three-week-long Israeli assault back into the north. North Gaza’s three hospitals, where officials refused orders by the Israeli army to evacuate, were hardly operating. At least two had been damaged by Israeli fire during the assault and run out of medical, food and fuel stocks.

At least one doctor, a nurse and two child patients had died in those hospitals due to a lack of treatment in the past week.

The Gaza health ministry said there was only one of roughly 70 medical staff, a paediatrician, left at Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israel detained and expelled the others.

North Gaza residents said Israeli forces were besieging schools and other shelters housing displaced families, ordering them out before rounding up men and ushering women and children out of the area towards Gaza City and the south.

Only a few families headed to southern Gaza as the majority preferred to relocate temporarily in Gaza City, fearing they could otherwise never regain access to their homes.

Source: Dawn 

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