Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Gaza Health Ministry, says the word "catastrophic" is not enough to describe the state of the health sector in Gaza amid Israel's "war of extermination" against the Palestinians, Al Jazeera reports.
Al-Bursh said Gaza is suffering from a severe shortage of fuel and basic medical supplies, including gauze and oxygen tanks.
"Currently, only one generator is working in the Indonesian hospital, and seven patients are in intensive care. If that generator stops working, the patients will die," al-Bursh warned.
He added that the lack of medicines for chronic diseases, including high blood pressure and diabetes, is killing people in Gaza.
"This is real suffering that the viewer cannot see. A slow death is happening in Gaza," al-Bursh said.
Four people were killed and several others wounded in clashes in southwestern Syria between the Israeli army and local residents, Syrian state media reported.
Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adri claims that the soldiers returned fire on the armed men who attacked them, before carrying out the drone attack.
Syria's state news agency SANA said Israeli tanks opened fire on the southwestern village of Qoaya. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at seven.
The Observatory and witnesses said clashes broke out between Israeli troops and local residents, when Israeli troops opened fire.
Israel occupied a buffer zone in Syria after Islamist rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad and seized power in December.
Israeli officials have said they will not allow the Syrian army access south of Damascus, claiming their goal is to protect the Druze, a minority religious sect present in both Syria and Israel.
The new Syrian authorities and UN officials have said Israel is violating a 1974 agreement that established a buffer zone along the border and have called for its withdrawal.
At least 23 people were killed in the Gaza Strip in overnight Israeli strikes on the territory, Palestinian doctors announced.
The dead included three children and their parents who were killed in a strike on tents in the southern city of Khan Younis, Nasser Hospital said.
The hospital has received more wounded since Israel resumed heavy bombardment of Gaza last Sunday, breaking a ceasefire that had halted the 17-month war.
Nasser Hospital said it had received four more bodies of those killed in the two attacks, in addition to a family of five.
In central Gaza, Al Aqsa Hospital said it had received the bodies of six people killed in three separate strikes.
Three more people were killed in a strike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Avda Hospital said.
In Gaza City, an Israeli strike on a residential building killed five people, according to the emergency services of the territory's health ministry, which added that 12 more people were wounded.
The Gaza war, which began after Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has killed more than 50.000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the territory's Ministry of Health.
Israel launched the attacks to destroy Hamas, which killed about 7 people and took 2023 hostages in its attack on southern Israel on October 1.200, 251. Israel says it is targeting only armed individuals and blames Hamas for civilian casualties because it operates in densely populated areas.
The ceasefire began on January 19th and was broken off last Sunday after the two sides failed to agree on its further course.
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The Israeli military announced today that it had again targeted two military bases in central Syria, the beta agency reports.
The Israeli military targeted "remaining capacities" at the Tadmur military bases in Palmyra and T4, about 50 kilometers west of Palmyra, it said via Telegram.
The army added that it would continue to act to "eliminate any threat to the citizens and the State of Israel."
During yesterday's visit to Jerusalem, the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kalas, assessed that military actions could cause a new escalation.
Kallas said, at a joint press conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sarr, that military action should be "proportionate" and warned that Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon could trigger a new escalation.
"We think that such action is not necessary if Syria is not attacking Israel at this moment, that it feeds radicalization and also directs it against Israel," Kallas said before traveling to the occupied West Bank for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has carried out dozens of strikes on military sites of the former Syrian authorities, claiming it wants to prevent the arsenal from falling into the hands of the new authorities that Israel considers "extremists."
The Israeli army has also deployed in the demilitarized zone of the Syrian Golan, starting from the part of the Golan Heights that Israel occupied in 1967 and annexed in 1981.
The new Syrian authorities condemn Israeli "aggression" against the Syrian people and the country's stability.
Reuters also reported that the Israeli military said it had struck targets at two Syrian military bases, Tadmur and T4, in Homs province.
Israel has stepped up airstrikes in Syria in recent months, targeting military sites it says are linked to Iranian forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah, both allies of the former Syrian government.
Homs province, home to the T4 and Tadmur air bases, has been repeatedly targeted for its role in regional arms transfers.
The strikes intensified after Islamist rebels ousted Bashar al-Assad as Syrian president on December 8, the culmination of a civil war that has lasted more than a decade.
Reuters reports that Israel has watched the upheaval in Syria with a mixture of hope and concern as it weighs the consequences of one of the most significant strategic shifts in the Middle East in recent years.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist faction that led the effort to overthrow Assad and was previously affiliated with al-Qaeda, has attracted particular attention from the Israelis.
Israel has repeatedly said that it will not tolerate the presence of HTS or related groups in southern Syria and has called for the demilitarization of the area.
Since then, Israel has expanded its operations to targets in Latakia and near the Lebanese border, citing growing concerns about Iranian entrenchment and regional instability.
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