At least 45 people, including five crew members of a television network affiliated with an Islamist movement and as many hospital workers, were killed Thursday in Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip, where the war is entering its 448th day, Palestinian sources said.

The director of Kamal Antoine Hospital, one of only two still operating in the northern enclave that has suffered massive destruction after 14 months of war between Israel and Hamas, had on Monday appealed for help.

Stressing that the health structure was targeted by the Israeli army, Dr. Hussam Abu Shafiya had called for the international community to intervene “urgently, before it is too late”.

Last night, he announced that five hospital staff had been killed by “Israeli shelling”: a pediatrician, a lab technician, two ambulance crew members and a maintenance worker.

When contacted by AFP, the Israeli military had no comment on the report. Since October 6, it has launched a wide-scale offensive in the northern Gaza Strip to prevent, it says, the regrouping of units of the military arm of Hamas.

The day began with the announcement by a television network affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, Al-Quds Al-Youm (“Jerusalem Today”), that five of its journalists were bombed when an Israeli aircraft hit their external broadcast vehicle in the central part of the Strip. Gaza.

The Israeli army, for its part, announced that it targeted a core of the Palestinian armed movement, “active members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad posing as journalists.”

Also yesterday, the head of the pediatric department of a hospital in the southern part of the Gaza Strip announced that three babies, less than a month old, died within 48 hours due to the cold.

“The most recent case is that of a small innocent girl, three weeks old, who was brought to the emergency department with hypothermia, which caused her death,” said Dr. Ahmed Al Farah.

The little girl, Sheila al-Fasi, lived in a tent in the Al Mawassi displaced persons camp, near Khan Younis, an area by the sea.

“It’s too cold in our tent, we can’t live. The children are sick all the time,” said the infant’s father, Mahmoud al-Fasi.

Civil protection in the Gaza Strip spoke during the day of dozens of dead in various airstrikes.

According to this source, 13 people were killed in the shelling of a house in the western part of Gaza City, where “families displaced” by the hostilities were staying.

The Israeli military, for its part, released the names of two soldiers, aged 27 and 35, “killed in action” in the Gaza Strip, bringing to 391 its official casualty tally in the Palestinian enclave since it began ground operations there in late of October 2023.

The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by an unprecedented raid by Hamas’ military arm against southern sectors of the Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the death of 1,208 people, mostly civilians, on the Israeli side, according to AFP tally based on official Israeli data.

Israel’s wide-scale military retaliatory operations have killed at least 45,399 people, most of them civilians, according to figures from Hamas’ health ministry in the Gaza Strip, which are deemed reliable by the UN.