At least eight people were killed after direct Israeli strikes on the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, while Israeli forces reportedly bombarded and surrounded the medical facility. Among the victims were patients and people seeking shelter.
Staff at an Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza are calling for emergency help after the attack inside the hospital, which is now surrounded by the Israeli army.
The World Health Organization said it had evacuated 31 premature babies from al-Shifa hospital to European and Nasser hospitals in southern Gaza. More than 200 patients are still trapped in the hospital.
The director of the Gaza Ministry of Health, Mounir al-Boursh, has rejected Israel's claim that it had found a Hamas tunnel in al-Shifa hospital, describing it as a "pure lie".
Earlier Israel stated that Israeli soldiers found a 55-meter-long "terrorist tunnel" at a depth of 10 meters under the Al Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City. This news was confirmed by the CNN team confirmed the news by visiting the exposed shaft of the tunnel near Al-Shifa Hospital.
"The shaft of the tunnel was very close, but it was completely exposed. The commander in charge of our group, Lt. Col. Tom said that this tunnel is significantly larger than others he had seen before. "This is a big tunnel," he said. "I've encountered tunnels — in 2014 in [Operation] Protective Edge, I was a company commander — and this tunnel is an order of magnitude larger than a standard tunnel," CNN reports.
Hamas announced that 13,000 people have been killed by Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. Among the deaths recorded so far are more than 5,500 minors and 3,500 women. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 30,000 people were injured. While in Israel, the official death toll in Hamas attacks is around 1,200.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has said that 48 journalists and media workers have been killed since the beginning of the conflict; 43 of those killed were Palestinians, four were Israelis and one was Lebanese.
Yemen's Houthi rebels have seized an Israeli-bound cargo ship in the Red Sea and taken dozens of crew hostage, raising fears of a wider escalation.
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