Occupation shoot and injure four civilians in the al-Rashid Street in central Gaza

GAZA: At least four civilians today were shot and injured by Israeli forces live` bullets after they were targeted near al-Rashid Street in Al-Zahraa City in the central Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that that two children were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a home in the city of Khan Yunis. Ambulance and civil crews managed to transport the bodies of the two dead children to Al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah. In a related context, Israeli military tanks continue to besiege the buildings of the Shifa Complex and threaten those present in the Complex to target them directly if they move. Local sources said that the displaced people who sought refuge inside Al-Shifa complex issued distress calls, fearing that a massacre would take place against them. Simultaneously, Israeli military army further forced the residents of the Al-Rimal neighborhood and the displaced people in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex to leave towards the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Yunis. Meanwhile, th e Israeli occupation forces detained Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul from inside the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after they brutally assaulted and beat him. A fire had broken out at the gate of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, causing suffocation cases among displaced women and children inside the Complex following Israeli military incursion of the hospital this morning. The forces also cut off communications for about 30,000 displaced people inside the Complex during the incursion. This is the second time that the occupation forces have stormed the Shifa Medical Complex since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on the 7th of last October. They had stormed it for the first time on the 16th of last November after besieging it for at least a week and withdrew from the hospital in November 24 after causing massive destruction of its courtyards, parts of its buildings, medical equipment and the hospital's electricity generator. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA