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Israel bombs Syria, attacks Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital again

By Alastair Mccready and Zaheena Rasheed

Published On 5 Nov 20245 Nov 2024

• Israeli forces have attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza for a second day, wounding medical staff and patients, including newborn babies at the facility’s nursery, according to medical staff.
• Israel’s military attacked the Syrian capital, Damascus, claiming it targeted Hezbollah’s “intelligence headquarters” in the country, but Syrian media say “civilian areas” were struck.
• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there was “no alternative” to UNRWA after Israel officially notified the global body of its decision to cut ties with the agency for Palestinian refugees.
• Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,374 Palestinians and wounded 102,261 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
• In Lebanon, at least 3,002 people have been killed and 13,492 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.

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  Israeli military bombs tents in Deir el-Balah, killing 2

  At least two people are confirmed dead, including a child, following an Israeli military attack on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

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  Newborn babies wounded as Israel attacks Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital

  Eid Sabbah, the director of nursing at Kamal Adwan Hospital, said Israel’s attack on the facility wounded newborn babies and forced the evacuation of its nursery.

  “The children’s ward with the incubators was hit by Israeli warplanes and quad-copter drones. The upper floors were damaged and some of the children and newborn babies were injured,” he told Al Jazeera by telephone.

  “Journalists, nurses and other medical staff were also injured,” he said.

  “The nurses took the children to the lower floors but those floors don’t have the equipment needed to cater to the newborns who need incubators and intensive care. Those children and newborns came under direct fire. One child was forced to have emergency surgery. The staff were shocked by this new attack because we had already come under fire just the day before.”

  As we’ve been reporting, Kamal Adwan is the last partially functioning hospital in besieged northern Gaza. The latest attacks come a week after Israeli forces raided the facility and detained dozens of people, including nearly all of its medical staff.

  The hospital – which continues to receive people wounded in Israel’s intensified attacks on northern Gaza – has called for urgent international intervention and the establishment of a humanitarian passage for the delivery of medical supplies.

  

  Palestinian casualties lie on beds and the floor at Kamal Adwan hospital after Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital in the northern Gaza Strip October 26, 2024 [Reuters]