Israeli attacks kill 50 more Palestinians as troops storm northern Gaza hospital
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US pressures expert monitoring group into withdrawing famine warning for northern Gaza. At least 50 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza on Thursday night. The Israeli military subsequently stormed the hospital, Al Jazeera reported. The soldiers used loudspeakers to order patients and staff to leave within 15 minutes and cut off communication to the facility before storming it, the outlet said.
![[Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinian journalists killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in Al Nuseirat refugee camp]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/06/11793713.jpg)
The hospital, one of the last functioning healthcare facilities in northern Gaza, has been under a sustained Israeli attack for weeks. “There are nearly 50 martyrs, including three of our medical staff, under the rubble of a building opposite Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia Project area after it was bombed by Israeli warplanes,” the hospital director, Hussam Abu Safia, was quoted as saying by the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
![[Rescuers and civilians stand at the site of an Israeli strike in a residential area in the Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City on 26 December 2024]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/06/2190824158.jpg)
The latest attacks on Gaza came as a wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s main airport on Thursday just as the World Health Organization’s director general was about to board a flight there. A crew member of a UN plane was injured when Israeli jets bombed the Sanaa airport earlier on Thursday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
The rest of the team left the airport and were "safe and sound" in Sanaa, UN associate spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay said. An assessment of the damage to the airport would be made on Friday to ascertain if the UN delegation could leave Yemen, she added.
Even as ceaseless Israeli attacks worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, an organisation monitoring food crises globally withdrew its warning of imminent famine in the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory under Israel’s “near-total blockade” after being pressured by US officials, the Associated Press reported.
