KUWAIT/GAZA: Kuwait’s National Diwan for Human Rights on Saturday condemned the Zionist occupation’s continued aggression on the Gaza Strip, restating that it stands side by side with the Palestinian people and their just causes. In a press release, the rights group also denounced the two-month siege imposed by Zionist occupying forces on the enclave as well as the ban on humanitarian and relief aid delivery to Gazans, causing an unprecedented deterioration of the humanitarian situation.

It added that the genocide and continued killings, which have left more than 150,000 dead or injured, mostly women and children, represent an obvious breach of international law and human rights charters. The diwan voiced unwavering support for the Palestinian people, reiterating Kuwait’s untiring backing for the Palestinian steadfastness through contributions to relief and charitable campaigns to alleviate the humanitarian anguish of the Palestinian people.

Meanwhile, Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza warned on Saturday that it may be forced to cease operations, announcing that its medical supplies are expected to last just one more week. “Due to the ongoing (Zionist) aggression and the closure of crossings, the health system is on the verge of collapse,” the hospital stated.

It revealed that more than 75 percent of essential medications are now unavailable in its stores, severely undermining the ability of medical staff to provide critical treatment. The hospital warned that essential services, particularly intensive care and chronic illness treatment, are now seriously threatened, and that if immediate action is not taken to deliver medical supplies, most health services could shut down. It urged international humanitarian organizations to intervene urgently and avert an impending health catastrophe in Gaza.

Gaza’s civil defense agency said Saturday that an overnight Zionist strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am.

Bassal told AFP that eight of the dead had been identified and were all from the same extended family, including a boy and girl, both one-year-olds, and a month-old baby. At the scene, rescue workers and residents searched through the rubble with their bare hands, illuminating the destruction with hand-held torches.

One rescuer carried the lifeless body of an infant from the wreckage, footage captured by an AFP journalist showed. Fayka Abu Hatab, a resident in a nearby building, said she “saw a bright light, then there was an explosion, and dust covered the entire area”. “We couldn’t see anything, it all went dark,” Abu Hatab said. “All of our windows were destroyed, our rooms were destroyed, the neighbors’ house was destroyed,” she added.

The health ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that at least 2,396 people have been killed since the Zionist entity resumed its campaign in Gaza, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,495. On Friday the civil defense agency said Zionist strikes killed at least 42 people across the war-ravaged territory, which has been under a total Zionist blockade since March 2.

Nine people were killed when a Zionist air strike hit a home in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, civil defense official Mohammed Al-Mughayyir told AFP. AFP footage in the aftermath of a strike on Bureij camp showed Palestinians searching for casualties in the rubble of a flattened building.

“They gave us no warning, no phone call — we woke up at midnight to smoke, rubble, stones and shrapnel raining down on us”, said Mohammed Al-Sheikh, standing amongst collapsed concrete slabs. “We pulled out martyrs — bodies and limbs from under the rubble.”

Another six people were killed in a strike targeting the Al-Masri family home in the northern city of Beit Lahia, Mughayyir added. In Gaza City, a strike on a community kitchen claimed the lives of six more, the civil defense agency reported. Across the Gaza Strip, at least 21 other deaths were reported in similar attacks, the agency said. – Agencies