Israeli attacks target a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in central Gaza\u2019s Nuseirat refugee camp
\n Gaza Strip
\nThe Israeli military has killed dozens more people in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon as it expands its attacks while ceasefire talks appear to be going nowhere.
\nAt least 55 people were killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave\u2019s Health Ministry. Fourteen of them were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes and shelling from warships in central Gaza\u2019s Nuseirat refugee camp on Friday, medical officials at al-Awda Hospital said.
\n\u201cPeople are arriving to the hospital in carts pulled by animals, because it\u2019s quite hard for civil defence and front-line emergency workers to reach the area, as Israeli military drones are actively operating there,\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Deir el-Balah as the bombs fell a few kilometres away.
\nOne of the targets in Nuseirat was a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians, bringing the total number of such centres hit since the start of the war to close to 200.
\nAbu Mohammed al-Taweel, a witness of the Israeli attacks on Nuseirat, said he saw many people killed after multiple family homes were targeted, with a five-month-old baby among the dead.
\n\u201cThe Israelis are eager to kill Palestinian children and women. There are no resistance fighters in the camp. They hit us without any prior warning,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.
\n\u201cWe are here to die. We are ready to die. I was not killed today, but I will definitely be killed tomorrow. No safe places here in the Gaza Strip. Massacres are being committed everywhere.\u201d
\nThe Israeli onslaught on the enclave continued in other parts, with deadly strikes killing dozens more reported in Khan Younis in the south and Gaza City in the north.
\nThe situation continues to be catastrophic in northern Gaza, where the Israeli military keeps up a siege as it blocks humanitarian aid and tries to force Palestinians to flee the area.
\n\u201cThe situation unfolding in North Gaza is apocalyptic,\u201d the heads of major United Nations agencies said on Friday. \u201cThe entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence,\u201d added the joint statement from heads of organisations that form the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee.
\nOn Thursday, Israeli forces targeted multiple areas of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north, including its stash of medicine delivered five days earlier by the World Health Organization and a water desalination plant.
\nAt least two children died in the intensive care unit after the hospital\u2019s generators stopped and the oxygen station was targeted, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry.
\nThe Government Media Office in Gaza reported on Friday that the number of journalists killed by Israeli since the start of the war has risen to 183.
\nThe official death toll in Gaza now stands at 43,259 people with 101,827 wounded, but the real number of casualties is believed to be much higher.
\nAttacks on Lebanon\u2019s Baalbek \u2018war crimes\u2019
\nThe Israeli military is steadily expanding its assault on Lebanon, as well.
\nAt least 41 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Baalbek region in eastern Lebanon on Friday, the regional governor said. Since October last year, at least 2,897 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Lebanon by Israeli attacks.
\nMultiple evacuation orders were issued on Friday morning to residents of a number of neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut. A series of massive strikes ensued, leaving behind destroyed buildings and Lebanese scrambling to open roads for ambulances to reach casualties.
\nBut emergency responders and civil defence crew are also regularly being targeted, as well. At least six medics were killed in multiple Israeli attacks taking place within three hours on Thursday, bringing the total number of paramedics killed since the beginning of the aggression to 178, with 279 wounded and 246 vehicles hit.
\nThis week, the Israeli army issued forced evacuation orders \u2013 which amount to effective kill zones \u2013 for dozens of villages and towns in southern Lebanon, along with the major ancient cities of Baalbek and Tyre.
\nTwo buildings were levelled in one of the latest Israeli raids near Imam Hussein Mosque in Tyre\u2019s Raml neighbourhood on Friday, with paramedics struggling to pull bodies from under the rubble.
\n\u201cAncient Phoenician cities steeped in history are in deep peril of being left in ruins,\u201d Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the United Nation\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, said about the threat posed by Israeli attacks for Tyre and Baalbek.
\nLebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called the attacks on those cities and Israel\u2019s evacuation orders \u201cwar crimes\u201d, along with other killings and destruction, as he maintains contact with counterparts from the United States and the region to achieve a ceasefire.
\nEven as US and Lebanese officials initially expressed hope this week that a Lebanon ceasefire could be reached, there was no sign of a breakthrough after Washington\u2019s envoys returned home following talks in Israel.
\nMikati said expanding attacks \u201cconfirm the Israeli enemy\u2019s rejection of all efforts being made to secure a ceasefire\u201d.
\nIsrael has demanded Hezbollah\u2019s withdrawal from Lebanon\u2019s southern borders and its disarming, or to reserve the right to carry out attacks in Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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