Pray for him. ” We did our duty. I swear we did our duty. ” Doctor Adnan Albursh was wounded in the bombing on the Indonesian hospital today.

Gaza: Death toll rises to 13,000, Israel shells Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza

Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on besieged Gaza — now in its 45th day — has killed over 13,000 Palestinians, including 5,500 children, and wounded 29,000.

Israel has continued its deadly strikes on Gaza, targeting several areas in the enclave, including the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital.

At least eight Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured as a result of the Israeli army artillery’s direct targeting of Indonesian Hospital and its surroundings with shells and missiles in northern Gaza, medical sources said, in addition to firing live bullets at anyone moving outside the hospital’s door.

They added that the Israeli army’s artillery targeted the second floor of the hospital, which led to the extensive destruction of the place, in addition to injuring two doctors during their work.

The medical sources said the death toll was increasing, especially as the electricity was cut off and it was difficult to carry out surgical operations to save the lives of the wounded.

According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli shelling caused the hospital to lose electricity after its generators stopped working.

Dr Adnan Al-Birsh, the iconic physician who served as the Head of the Orthopedics Department at Al-Shifa Hospital, was injured in heavy bombardment by Israeli forces at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, North Gaza.

He was fearlessly leading from the front in protecting and treating the wounded Palestinian civilians as the Israeli army laid an inhumane siege on the Al-Shifa Hospital. After being evacuated from Shifa he continued his work at the Indonesian Hospital.

Following the same pattern of the devastating incursion in Al-Shifa Hospital Israeli forces now target Indonesian Hospital. Israeli artillery started in the middle of the night and targeted the surgical department, wounding the doctors working there and killing 12 civilians who were taking refuge.

Meanwhile, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi condemned Israel’s attack on the Indonesian Hospital. “The attack is a clear violation of international humanitarian laws. All countries, especially those that have close relations with Israel, must use all their influence and capabilities to urge Israel to stop its atrocities,” she said in a statement.

The Israeli forces burned down the al-Kuwait UN school near the hospital where many were taking refuge. The death toll is not available yet.

Wafa News Agency reports that the Israeli soldiers are “shooting at everything that moves” near the entrance to the hospital, where Israeli military vehicles and snipers are stationed around the complex.

“We fear Israeli forces will repeat what they did at Al-Shifa Hospital,” The hospital spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said in a recent statement. As the attacks are intensifying the situation has turned catastrophic. At present, there are more than 700 people, including medical staff and injured people stuck inside the hospital, and the total number of civilians sheltering in the hospital is around 5,000.

Despite the horrifying threats by the forces, the medical staff at the Indonesian Hospital insist that they will stay as long as they can to treat the injured.

The last message before her house was bombed.

Journalist Aya Khaddourah

Gaza: Scenes from the Nuseirat refugee camp following Israeli bombardment

Israeli air raids have killed dozens of people, including children, in northern, central, and southern Gaza, Palestinian officials and media have said, as the besieged territory endures its 44th day of bombardment.

At least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-governed enclave said on Sunday.

A woman and her child were also killed in strikes in southern Khan Younis city, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Israeli forces also shot dead two people, including a disabled man, during incursions in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.

Issam al-Fayed, a 46-year-old disabled man, was killed at the entrance of the Jenin refugee camp, while 20-year-old Omar Laham was killed at the Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem, Wafa said.

‘Our life is hell’

The killings come on the heels of devastating assaults on schools and refugee camps in northern Gaza.

At least 50 people were killed in an attack on Al Fakhoura school in the Jabalia refugee camp on Saturday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, while dozens of casualties were reported from an attack on a second school in Tall az-Zaatar.

“The scenes were horrifying. Corpses of women and children were on the ground. Others were screaming for help,” Ahmed Radwan, a wounded survivor of Al Fakhoura attack, told The Associated Press news agency.

“Dead bodies [are] scattered … pieces of flesh”, an unnamed witness told Al Jazeera. “No one can recognise their sons. Our life is hell.”

Marwan Bishara, a senior political analyst for Al Jazeera, said Al Fakhoura school could be described as the “al-Shifa of schools” as it has been repeatedly hit by Israeli forces like al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, which has been a major target of Israel’s military campaign.

“There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and death,” Bishara said.

Patients fleeing al-Shifa

Meanwhile, al-Shifa Hospital continued to be the focus of humanitarian concerns as hundreds of people fled the facility on foot on orders from the Israeli army, according to its director.

Columns of sick and injured – some of them amputees – were seen leaving with displaced people, doctors, and nurses on Saturday, as loud explosions were heard around the complex.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, described “horrifying images” of the scene, while Egypt called the bombing a “war crime” and “a deliberate insult to the United Nations”.

A World Health Organization assessment team on Sunday said 291 patients were left at the hospital. They included 32 babies in extremely critical condition, trauma patients with severely infected wounds and others with spinal injuries who are unable to move, the UN health agency said.

Since Palestinian group Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7, Israel has waged a devastating air and ground assault on Gaza, killing at least 11,500 people, more than a third of them children, according to Gaza officials.

The 44-day war has displaced some 1.5 million Palestinians, wrecked much of the territory’s infrastructure and sparked a desperate humanitarian crisis, aid workers say.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES