Israeli Bombings Kill 25 Palestinians in Beit Lahia
An elderly Palestinian man who died during forced displacement from Beit Lahia, Gaza. Nov. 5, 2024. X/ @Khabrnews1
November 5, 2024 Hour: 12:03 pm
The WHO announced that over 100 critically ill patients will be evacuated from several hospitals to be treated outside Gaza.
On Tuesday, news agency WAFA reported that 25 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli bombing of a house in the town of Beit Lahia on the northern Gaza Strip. The death toll could rise substantially given that there are still many people missing under the rubble.
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“This is what both major parties in the U.S. support. Today, two elderly Palestinians died after they were forced to evacuate their homes in Beit Lahia, on what turned out for them to be a genocidal death march. Shame on the USA!,” journalist Andy Worthington posted on X.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that over 100 critically ill patients, a third of them children, will be evacuated from several Gaza hospitals to be treated outside Gaza in the largest operation of its kind since the start of the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian enclave.
“Many of them suffer from serious trauma and many others from chronic diseases,” said the head of the WHO office in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn.
He also recalled that another 12,000 critically ill patients still need to be evacuated from Gaza, many of them suffering from serious trauma such as amputations, injuries, or burns, but also from chronic diseases.
The patients will be evacuated on Wednesday morning in a large convoy through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which connects Gaza with southern Israel, to later fly to the United Arab Emirates and Romania.
Since closing the Rafah border crossing in May, Israel has only allowed the evacuation of 282 patients to medical facilities outside Gaza. Peeperkorn therefore urged the Israeli authorities to reopen the Rafah crossing and approve new medical corridors connecting Gaza with Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Since October 2023, Israeli occupation forces have launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip. The death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza has risen to 43,391, the Palestinean Health Ministry said.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE – Xinhua – WAFA
