GAZA: Zionist military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 28 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, medics said, and the Zionist military said troops carried out air and ground attacks in the northern Gaza Strip, killing dozens and capturing others. A Zionist airstrike hit the civil emergency center in the Nuseirat market area in the central Gaza Strip, killing Ahmed Al-Louh, a video journalist for Al Jazeera TV, and five other people, medics and fellow journalists said.

The TV network said he was working when he was killed. Hamas media said the head of the civil emergency service in Nuseirat, Nedal Abu Hjayyer, was also killed. “The civil emergency headquarters in Nuseirat camp was hit during the crews’ presence, they work around the clock to serve the people,” said Zaki Emadeldeen from the civil emergency service to reporters at the hospital.

“The civil emergency service is a humanitarian service and not political, they work in war and peace times for the service of the people,” he said, adding that the place was hit directly by a Zionist airstrike. Another airstrike hit a group of men tasked with protecting aid trucks west of Gaza City, and medics said several were killed or wounded but exact figures were unavailable as yet.

Residents said at least 11 people were killed in three separate Zionist airstrikes on Gaza City houses, nine were killed in the towns of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia camp when clusters of houses were bombed or set ablaze, and two were killed by drone fire in Rafah. In Beit Hanoun, Zionist forces besieged families sheltering in Khalil Aweida School before storming it and ordering them to head towards Gaza City, the medics and residents said.

Medics said several people were killed and wounded during the raid on the school while the army detained many men. The number killed was not immediately clear. Separately, the Zionist entity said its air force struck a compound in the Abu Shabak clinic in northern Gaza. The Gaza health ministry said the medical center, which also included a mental health clinic, was destroyed. Palestinians accuse the Zionist entity of carrying out ethnic cleansing to depopulate the areas at the northern edge to create a buffer zone.

AFP photographs showed heart-wrenching scenes as relatives retrieved the bodies of their loved ones from a hospital in Gaza City, while others killed lay on the floor covered in blankets. The Zionist offensive has killed at least 44,976 people in Gaza, a majority of them civilians. Medics in Gaza report severe shortages of medicines in hospitals amid the ongoing military assault. The fighting has also resulted in casualties among medical workers, further straining the healthcare system.

“We are suffering from a shortage of medical staff as a result of the targeting and the martyrdom of a large number of doctors and nurses,” said Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, in a statement to journalists. He said Zionist air strikes and shelling continued to target the hospital and surrounding areas, exacerbating the crisis and endangering both patients and staff. – Agencies