- A fire ignited by Israel’s direct attacks has caused “significant destruction to the vast majority” of Kamal Adwan’s wards, our correspondent reports, after a raid described as “barbaric” by local authorities.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that Israel’s military has taken dozens of Kamal Adwan Hospital staff, including director Hussam Abu Safia, for interrogation, while the fate of many patients is unknown after troops forcibly cleared the medical facility.
- The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) said Israel’s “systematic dismantling” of Gaza’s health system is a “death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians”.
- The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called for the “immediate flow” of humanitarian aid as babies freeze to death in Gaza.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,436 Palestinians and wounded 108,038 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
- Palestinians displaced from Kamal Adwan Hospital suffered beatings, coldAl Jazeera correspondents are reporting that around 400 people including medical staff, patients and the displaced were released after being detained by the Israeli military during the storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.Some arrived in the Jabalia al-Nozla area of northern Gaza on foot. They said they were beaten with rifle butts and left out in the cold for long hours, including those who were injured and the elderly.Medical staff said direct bombing hit the archive, sterilisation and maintenance departments, igniting a fire that quickly spread to the patient wards, operating rooms and laboratory.Some attempted to extinguish the flames using water from the dialysis machine, which was mixed with chlorine, and suffered burns to their hands and faces.The fate of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, is still unknown.
- Two killed, several wounded in Jabalia raidsAt least two people have been killed and several wounded as Israel bombed the areas of Jabalia al-Balad and Jabalia al-Nazla, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli drone targeted a group of Palestinians in Jabalia al-Balad, where the two victims were killed.
- Israeli officer denies soldiers stormed, set fire to Gaza hospital: ReportIsraeli army Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said a preliminary investigation found “no connection” between Israel’s military activity and “a small fire” that broke out in the Kamal Adwan Hospital, The Times of Israel reports.Shoshani told the Israeli news outlet that reports of Israeli soldiers setting fire to the hospital were “unsubstantiated”.Witness accounts collected by Al Jazeera and other media outlets contradict these claims, while the UN’s World Health Organization said reports indicate that “key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid”.Shoshani claimed that Israeli forces had “facilitated the secure evacuation of civilians, patients and medical personnel prior to the operation” against the hospital, which has been under regular and deadly attack by Israel’s military for weeks.
- Palestinians amid the debris following an Israeli attack on the courtyard of the Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surrounding buildings on December 25, 2024 [Khalil Ramzi Alkahlut/Anadolu]
- Israeli drones circle Gaza as territory reels after night of attacksReporting from Deir el-Balah, central GazaOverhead, right now, I can see two Israeli drones hovering across the skies of the central areas in Gaza, especially here in Deir el-Balah.We have also received confirmation from medical sources in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital suggesting that nine civilians were killed in a strike that targeted a multistorey building in al-Maghazi refugee camp, including children and women, who were killed in the attack.We saw victims were brought out today, after a long night of searching for survivors.The latest people recovered from under the rubble were two women.It’s not the only strike that took place overnight.We managed to understand … from sources in northern Gaza that two other civilians were killed in Jabalia and Balak town, where the Israeli army is still pressing on with its military offensive in the north after more than two months.
- Iran says Israeli military’s torching of Kamal Adwan Hospital a ‘war crime’Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the “barbaric aggression” of Israel’s military against the Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza, describing the attack on the facility as the latest example of a “war crime, crimes against humanity, and an egregious violation of international law and its norms”.Torching the last major operational healthcare facility in the north of the besieged enclave came with the goal of “complete destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza,” ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement.The Israeli attacks are part of an “ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine”, Baghaei said. “The silence of relevant international institutions regarding this crime is unjustifiable and makes them internationally responsible,” he said.
- A view of destruction following the Israeli attack on the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surrounding buildings on December 25, 2024, before it was set on fire [Khalil Ramzi Alkahlut/Anadolu Agency]
- Israel carries out overnight attacks on GazaThe Israeli military were reported to have carried several deadly attacks overnight and early this morning across the Gaza Strip, including:
- Two people were killed on Friday night when an Israeli warplane attacked buildings in the Remal neighbourhood west of Gaza City.
- Another person was killed by an aircraft attack near the Jordanian Field Hospital in Sabra, south of Gaza City.
- The bodies of seven people have been pulled from the rubble of a family home in the Maghazi refugee camp after an early-morning Israeli strike.
- Paramedics have spent the night transporting people wounded by Israeli shelling and gunfire in the al-Mawasi so-called “humanitarian zone” to hospital in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.
- Israeli forces were reported to have surrounded an area where 300 families remain in Beit Hanoon in the northern Gaza Strip, which has been under military siege for months.
LIVE: Israeli soldiers storm, set fire to last hospital in northern Gaza
