Israel bombs Al-Mawasi camps and a school amid a wave of attacks across Gaza | News of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The UN’s Lazzarini said the world must not become “numb” after Israeli strikes killed about 50 Palestinians in 24 hours.

Israel bombed the Gaza Strip overnight with bloody attacks targeting displaced people in two camps and a school, and ordered the forced evacuation of one of the last barely functioning hospitals in the besieged northern Strip.

The army launched a wave of attacks on the so-called “safe zone.” Condolences In the south, refugee tents were set on fire in a drone attack that killed seven people, and other strikes on a civilian car and a vehicle carrying security personnel killed four others.

In separate attacks, the army targeted a school housing displaced people Nasiris A refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, which led to the death of one person. It also killed four people in the area north of the camp, according to Al Jazeera Arabic and the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

The raids came at the end of a bloody 24 hours in the Strip, where medical sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that 50 people had been killed since early Sunday.

As the attacks continued, the army ordered the site to be closed and forcibly evacuated Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, putting about 400 citizens at risk, including children in incubators.

The hospital is one of the few still functioning in the north, where thousands of people have been trapped under a harsh siege for nearly three months.

WAFA reported on Sunday that Israeli forces targeted the hospital with bombs, artillery shells and sniper fire, specifically targeting the women’s, maternity and newborn departments, killing three civilians.

Hossam Abu Safia, director of the hospital, told Reuters news agency that the army was directly targeting the fuel tanks, which could “cause a large explosion and huge losses among civilians inside.”

He said complying with the lockdown order was “next to impossible” because there were not enough ambulances to get patients out.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said in a report from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza: “We are in a situation now where the designated evacuation zone is not safe for the displaced, not the evacuation zone in Al-Mawasi, not the schools, not the shelters.” Not even hospitals.”

“We have been witnessing repeated attacks on these specific areas over the past month,” he said. “What we are seeing now is highlighting the vulnerability of displaced and traumatized civilians in these areas.”

The charity Oxfam said on Sunday that Israeli authorities had allowed only 12 aid trucks to enter northern Gaza during the past two and a half months.

“Deliberate delays and systematic obstruction” by the army meant that only 12 of the “meager” 34 trucks allowed into the area were able to distribute aid to starving Palestinians.

Philippe Lazzarini, Director-General of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, said on Sunday that there has been an “escalation” in the Israeli war on Gaza over the past 24 hours.

In a post on X, he repeated his calls for a ceasefire, saying: “The world must not become a drug.”

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Escalation in the last 24 hours.
More civilians were reported killed and injured.

Attacks on schools and hospitals were common.
The world must not become numb.

All wars have rules
All those rules have been broken.

The ceasefire is long overdue
A…

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) December 22, 2024