Israeli tanks are laying siege to the Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr pediatric hospitals
in Gaza after a violent night of airstrikes that saw Israeli jets hit multiple
health facilities across the besieged coastal enclave.
According to officials in the children's hospitals, hundreds of civilians remain
trapped inside as the tanks have been firing on different sections of the
buildings.
With Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr hospitals out of service, about 3,000 children are
being deprived of oncology treatment and dialysis services. The two pediatric
hospitals were also hit by Israeli airstrikes overnight on Thursday.
Dozens were killed overnight after Israeli jets hit several healthcare
facilities across Gaza, including the Indonesia, Al-Aqwdah, and Al-Shifa
hospitals.
"Not a second goes by without bombing close to the hospital. Many of the
hospital's windows have been broken, and there is fear and anxiety amongst the
medics and the patients and the displaced people," Gaza health ministry
spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra told Al Jazeera on Friday about Al-Shifa Hospital,
the largest in Gaza.
The bombing of Al-Shifa continued into Friday morning, with videos shared on
social media showing the devastation caused by Israeli bombs on the outpatient
department, where displaced people had been sleeping.
Local reports said that the Israeli air force also dropped a Hellfire R9X
missile next to the journalist's tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital on Thursday
night. The R9X is a US-made air-to-ground missile featuring a kinetic warhead
with pop-out blades instead of explosives, meant to dismember those near the
blast site.
According to Qudra, in 35 days since Israel's campaign of genocide started, at
least 195 health personnel have been killed, and 51 ambulances have been
destroyed by Israeli bombs.
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