A hospital in central Gaza reports receiving dozens of casualties from several parts of central Gaza due to heavy overnight air strikes.
Video shot for CNN shows multiple casualties in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza. The hospital says 57 people were killed and nearly 70 injured. At least 10 of those killed were children, the hospital said.
The video shows people praying for the dead, who had been brought there from Deir Al-Balah, Al-Maghazi and Al-Nuseirat — all areas of central Gaza where there has been heavy fighting and extensive air strikes.
Jamal Naim said he lost his mother, three daughters and three grandchildren.
“We were asleep in a shelter house in Deir Al-Balah. We had evacuated from Nuseirat as we were told it’s safe here. Suddenly at 11 at night, the house was struck. We don’t know why. They struck the room that my daughters slept in. My mother was martyred, [as well as] my three daughters and three grandchildren,” he told CNN.
One of his daughters, 27-year-old Shaymaa, had graduated as a dentist. He had found only fragments of her body.
“It is a crime,” Naim said, “An unjust world. I don’t know where humanity is going. This is a dentist, she was the first in her college with a grade of 95%, one of the best dentists in Gaza.”
The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza said Tuesday that in the previous 24 hours, a total of 126 people had been killed and 241 injured. On most days recently, the Ministry has reported between 100 and 200 people killed. The Ministry said the number killed by Israeli military operations since October 7 had risen to 23,210 with 59,167 people injured.
Some of the heaviest combat is in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where there is fighting on the ground as well as regular airstrikes. Video and images reviewed by CNN show that a 16-story residential block – the Al-Fara residential tower — in Khan Younis had been destroyed in an overnight strike. The streets in the immediate area are strewn with wreckage and rubble.
CNN has asked the IDF whether the tower was targeted in strikes overnight.