Israel strikes Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza

Planes of the Israeli Air Force delivered an air strike on the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central part of the Gaza Strip early on December 8, Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television said.

According to the report, IDF fighter jets delivered a massed air strike on the healthcare facility, located in the city of Deir al Balah.

Moreover, the IDF struck the refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Al Jazeera TV channel, Israeli military aircraft raided the El-Magazi camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip. Also, the TV channel reports on the destruction of residential buildings in the city of Deir el-Balah by military aircraft.

In addition, the IDF aircraft struck several districts of the city of Khan-Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. According to the TV channel, the city of Rafah on the border with Egypt was also bombed.

The forces of Israel arrested in Bethlehem the deputy general director of the Jerusalem Fund of Donors, Nadzhek Bakirat, according to the Palestinian information agency Wafa.

It is noted that the arrest was made during the Israeli military raid on his house. More detailed information is not provided.

It is known that Bakirat was repeatedly arrested on charges of illegal activities, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pointed to his connection with the radical Palestinian movement Hamas.

According to Wafa, the IDF also conducted separate raids in the villages of Kafr-Kaddum and Jinsafut.

meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces lost 91 people killed in the fighting with the radical Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the ground operation began at the end of November, the army press service reported two soldiers killed on December 7.

According to the latest data, one died in the north of the Gaza Strip, the second - in the south. The total losses of the Israeli army since the escalation of the conflict after the attack by Hamas militants on October 7 exceeded 400 people.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly.

Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.