The Kuwait Field Hospital in Gaza reported early Wednesday that three people were killed when an Israeli drone struck a tent housing displaced people west of Khan Yunis. Several others were injured when Israeli artillery shelled a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City, and an Israeli drone struck a tent housing displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of Gaza City.
According to eyewitnesses and medical sources, the Israeli attacks targeted tents housing displaced persons, inhabited homes, civilian gatherings, and people waiting for aid. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs confirmed that the hostilities are devastating Gaza, and that more people are dying of hunger in the Strip.
In a related development, the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday refuted the "misleading" Israeli narrative, through which Tel Aviv attempted to justify the massacre it perpetrated on Monday at Nasser Hospital, which resulted in the deaths of 22 civilians, including five journalists.
The office said that Israel "is trying to justify its crime by spreading a false narrative claiming that a resistance camera was targeted. This is a false claim devoid of any evidence, and aims to evade legal and moral responsibility for a full-blown massacre."
Earlier on Tuesday, Israel's Channel 13 reported that an initial Israeli military investigation into the bombing of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis on Monday attributed the attack to the presence of a Hamas surveillance camera. The army claimed in its investigation that "the camera is used to monitor the activity of its forces with the aim of directing terrorist activities against them."
Refuting this claim, the government media office in Gaza said in a statement that the "camera" targeted by the army "belonged to Reuters photojournalist Hossam al-Masry, who was killed by the occupation forces in the first raid." It continued: "After the first strike, civil defense teams, journalists, and humanitarian service providers rushed to rescue the wounded, only to be surprised by the occupation forces with a second, deliberate, and direct strike, which led to the martyrdom of most of the victims in this massacre that was broadcast live."
The office asserted that Israel is pursuing a systematic policy of "double jeopardy," which is "a criminal tactic prohibited internationally and reveals the occupation's deliberate intent to inflict the greatest possible number of civilian casualties." Furthermore, "Israel falsified the identities of the victims and published a list of six martyrs, claiming they were terrorists. However, facts on the ground prove that some of them were martyred outside the Nasser Medical Complex," according to the government office statement.
The office added in this regard: "One of the martyrs was targeted by the occupation forces in the Mawasi al-Qarara tents, as well as the martyr Omar Abu Taym, who was martyred in another location and at a different time. His body has not yet been recovered, contrary to what the occupation forces claimed. In addition, the remaining martyrs were civilian victims, and most of them were martyred in the second strike, not the first."
According to Channel 13, the Israeli occupation army claimed that "among those killed in the attack on Nasser Hospital were six terrorists, including a person who participated in the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023."
In this regard, the Government Media Office in Gaza stressed that all the individuals found on the targeted external staircase of the Nasser Complex were "known by name and profession, including members of the press, civil defense, and humanitarian sectors, and were not wanted."
The office considered the Israeli narrative "an extension of the occupation's longstanding approach to every crime, fabricating pretexts and inventing evidence to avoid international prosecution. Its repeated use of accusing hospitals and civilian infrastructure of military activities aims to legitimize their bombing, a practice that is in complete violation of all international laws."
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He pointed out that Israel has failed "throughout the course of its genocidal war to prove its claims and lies that hospitals or civilian infrastructure are linked to military activities." The office called on the international community, UN and international human rights organizations, and the International Criminal Court to "take immediate action to hold accountable the perpetrators of the Nasser Medical Complex crime and reject any narrative that justifies the killing of civilians."
For its part, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday deemed the damage to medical facilities in the Gaza Strip by Israeli airstrikes "unacceptable," given the casualties they cause and the destruction of vital facilities needed by patients who have little recourse amid the 23-month-long genocidal war.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said: "Nasser Medical Complex is one of the last major hospitals still operating in southern Gaza, providing critical and specialized medical services to thousands of patients in an area where only a limited number of health facilities remain amid ongoing hostilities." It noted that these airstrikes are causing "casualties and destroying vital facilities needed by patients who have virtually no safe haven."
According to official Palestinian medical and security sources, the victims of the Nasser massacre in Khan Yunis included five journalists, a civil defense firefighter driver, four medical workers, and a sixth-year medical student. The bombing sparked sharp criticism of Tel Aviv around the world, particularly given the collapse of the medical sector as a result of the war and its continued targeting of journalists since the start of its genocide nearly 23 months ago.
Scenes documenting the killing of 5 soldiers
Meanwhile, fighting continues between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation army in the Gaza Strip. The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, broadcast footage on Tuesday of a well-planned ambush it carried out in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the deaths of five Israeli soldiers and the injury of approximately 20.
The footage documented the Qassam Brigades targeting an Israeli force with two explosive devices on the evening of July 7th, in the agricultural area north of Beit Hanoun, near the Erez crossing. The footage included the moment the Israeli force advanced toward the prepared ambush before the first explosive device exploded, scattering body parts and screaming soldiers. The footage also included the targeting of a rescue force trying to rescue the targeted force with a second, larger device.
Al-Qassam Brigades said that this ambush was part of a series of "Stones of David" operations, launched in response to the Israeli military operation "Gideon's Wagons."
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli genocide left 62,819 Palestinians dead, 158,629 wounded, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that killed 303 Palestinians, including 117 children,
