Israel attacks Gaza hospital in Gaza, bomb attacks, bombing intensifies | Gaza News

Israel’s latest attack on Gaza’s severe health care system, this time with drones in Indonesia’s hospital operating in northern Gaza as its troops also conduct ground offensives in the north and south of the territory.

Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa Hospital in the besieged enclave, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that the latest strikes that have been underway since Saturday suggest that Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals are intensifying.

“The medical team is really suffering, we have several medical teams and staff … and a lot of people need more medical services,” Abu Salmiya said on a phone call from the hospital on Sunday.

He said that Indonesian hospitals are one of the major medical institutions in the north and now it has largely stopped production, which has seriously affected patients' chances of survival.

He warned that thousands of sick and injured people could die. Blood donation is urgently needed.

The Gaza Ministry of Health highlighted this, which confirmed that Israeli forces have besieged Beit Lahiya's facilities, adding that "panic and chaos are prevalent".

The ministry later said that Israel cut off the arrival of patients and staff, "effectively forcing the hospital to fail."

"All public hospitals in Northern Gaza Province have now been discontinued with the closure of Indonesian hospitals".

Gaza's medical facilities were repeatedly targeted during a deadly attack that began 18 months ago in Israel.

Since the beginning of the war, other facilities in the north have been blown up, burned and besieged by the Israeli military, including Kamal Adewan Hospital, al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital. Dozens of other medical clinics, stations and vehicles were also under attack.

According to the 1949 Geneva Convention, the targeting of health facilities, medical personnel and patients is considered a war crime.

Israel has also beaten several hospitals in central and southern Gaza, including the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir El-Balah and the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

Israel attacked two hospitals in Khan Younis earlier this week. Nine missiles in and around the yard of the European Gaza hospital killed at least 16 people, while the attack on the Nasser Medical Complex killed two, including a wounded journalist.

Continuous attacks on Gaza’s health care sector have put it in trouble and destroyed its operational capabilities, while doctors say they have no medication to treat routine conditions.

In the brutal and ongoing lockdown, hospitals are also on the verge of a total collapse, and Israel continues to ban access to much-needed medical supplies, fuel and other humanitarian aid, including food and clean water.

Humanitarian officials warn that the crisis in Gaza reached one of its darkest times.

In the past 72 hours, Israeli air strikes killed hundreds of Palestinians.

The weekend strike also made the European hospital the only remaining facility to provide cancer treatment in Gaza.

After Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary reported that dozens of Palestinians were injured, and doctors said: "They face many challenges in treating the injury due to lack of medical supplies".

"As drones and fighters wander in the sky, Israel's air strikes in Gaza are still escalating," Hodari said.

Emily Tripp, executive director of the London Independent Group, said the death toll was the same intensity as the earliest times of the war.

Preliminary data show that at least one person hovered around 700 around April in the number of killings or injured in Israel fires. This is a figure comparable to October or December 2023, one of the worst periods of bombing.

In the last 10 days of March, UNICEF (UNUC) estimated that an average of 100 children were killed or disabled by Israeli air strikes every day.

Gaza's Ministry of Health said an estimated 53,000 people sentenced to Israel's killings since October 7, 2023 have been killed since the fragile ceasefire on March 18.

Those killed in recent days include a volunteer pharmacist with the Pashe Children's Relief Fund who died with his family during a May 4 strike in Gaza.

On another strike on May 7, the midwife of the AL AWDA Health and Community Association also died with her family.

A reporter on Qatar's television network Alaby TV and 11 of his members were also killed.