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More than 50 Palestinians were killed and over 150 injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, the director of the Indonesian hospital in Gaza said.The hospital official told Al Jazeera he feared the numbers would rise after several residential buildings were destroyed in the bombing.The Israel Defense Forces admitted carrying out the attacks and said they targeted Hamas infrastructure “that had taken over civilian buildings” but claimed those killed were Hamas militants.Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem rejected the IDF’s claim, saying it was trying to justify “its heinous crime” against civilians.The explosion came as the Palestinian Border Authority announced late Tuesday that the Rafah crossing would be opened on Wednesday to allow 81 seriously injured Palestinians to be treated in Egyptian hospitals.Photos from the crime scene show the devastation caused by the attack. Civilians dig through the rubble to retrieve the dead and wounded.Mohammed Hawajreh, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, said The Independent: “Small children came to the hospital with deep wounds and severe burns.“They came without their families. Many shouted and asked for their parents. I stayed with them until we found a place as the hospital was full of patients.”In a statement late Tuesday evening, Gaza’s Health Ministry warned that the Shifa Medical Complex and the Indonesian hospital treating the wounded in the Jabaliya attack were just hours from closing due to running out of fuel.It said: “We are sending an emergency call to countries around the world to save 42 children on life support in incubators, 62 wounded and patients on mechanical ventilation, 650 patients with kidney failure, hundreds of operations in operating rooms and other patients and wounded.” .“We appeal to all gas station owners and our people who have any amount of fuel or know a place with fuel to deliver it to Al-Shifa Medical Complex and Indonesian Hospital to save the lives of the wounded and sick.”As fighting intensifies on Palestinian territory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected international calls for an end to fighting that has raged since Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 that Israeli authorities said killed 1,400 people.The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that 8,525 people were killed, including 3,542 children. According to the charity Save the Children, the number of children killed in all conflicts has exceeded the number of children killed since 2019.The rapidly rising death toll has called on the international community, including the United States – Israel’s biggest ally – to pause fighting to allow humanitarian aid through.Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip and refuses to let in food, fuel and medical supplies, let alone, it is said, used by Hamas to wage war.In his speech in Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized the importance of both security assistance to Israel and humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza.“Without rapid and sustained humanitarian assistance, the conflict is much more likely to spread, suffering will increase, and Hamas and its sponsors will benefit by portraying themselves as saviors of the despair they have caused,” he said.A World Health Organization official said “a public health catastrophe” is imminent in Gaza.Airstrikes on Monday evening outside the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza led to a power outage and doctors said they feared for the lives of 250 injured Palestinians being treated there as fuel ran out.“A fuel shortage would mean no electricity, and no electricity would mean the inevitable death of many patients,” Dr. Moaeen Al-Masri.James Elder, a spokesman for the UN Children’s Fund in Geneva, warned of the risk of infant deaths due to dehydration. Children in Gaza are getting sick from drinking salt water, he said.“The protection of civilians on both sides is of utmost importance and must be respected at all times,” the UN chief said in a statement. “International humanitarian law sets out clear rules that cannot be ignored. It is not an à la carte menu and cannot be applied selectively.”About 940 children have been reported missing in Gaza, he said, with some believed to be stuck under the rubble of buildings leveled by Israeli airstrikes.According to UN officials, significantly fewer humanitarian aid trucks than necessary have reached the besieged enclave so far. Last week, aid trucks from Egypt entered Gaza through Rafah, the main crossing that does not border Israel.

More than 50 Palestinians were killed and over 150 injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, the director of the Indonesian hospital in Gaza said.The hospital official told Al Jazeera he feared the numbers would rise after several residential buildings were destroyed in the bombing.The Israel Defense Forces admitted carrying out the attacks and said they targeted Hamas infrastructure “that had taken over civilian buildings” but claimed those killed were Hamas militants.Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem rejected the IDF’s claim, saying it was trying to justify...

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