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Day 22 of Israel's third ground invasion of the North Gaza governorate.

Recap of events after 3 full weeks:

• The operation started on October 5th
• Siege expanded from Jabalia to include Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun
• Over 800 killed in the North Governorate, including Jabalia Al-Balad and Al-Nazla, with dozens missing under the rubble
• Hundreds of families are trapped in Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia, as tens of thousands of people remain
• The IDF put all hospitals out of service and destroyed the only Civil Defense vehicle and the remaining ambulances inside Kamal Adwan Hospital
• The IDF detained hundreds of Palestinians
• Campaign of destruction of homes by bombing and shelling residential blocks, specifically in Bir al-Na’ja, al-Saftawi, al-Twam, al-Amoudi, the Beit Lahia Project, and Block 1 and 2
• Shelters (schools) emptied and torched including Abu Zeitoun, Halab, and Tal al-Rabi’ schools
• Destroyed infrastructure: roads, water wells and pumps
• Israel denies the entry fo any aid: food, water or medicine, since a week before the incursion.

Extensive damage of Kamal Adwan Hospital surroundings after IDF retreat from the area

List of events harming civilians, infrastructure and living conditions:

Morning

• IDF arrests all medical staff and some injured in Kamal Adwan Hospital. Female medical staff were detained in an isolated room without food or water, while men were stripped of their clothes, handcuffed and taken to an unknown location
• Hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya was not detained, but the director's son Ibrahim was also arrested. Some were released moments later and reached Sheikh Radwan clinic.
• Ibrahim Hossam Abu Safiya, son of Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital was pronounced dead, likelyfrom injuries inflicted during his detention by the IDF. He was carried back to Kamal Adwan Hospital where Dr. Abu Safiya led the funeral prayer.
• Soldiers torch houses around Kamal Adwan Hospital
• Quadcopters drop bombs on civilians near the Khilla gas station in Jabalia al-Nazla. Injuries reported

Afternoon

• Drones drop bombs at the southern gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital from the direction of Al-Alami
• 8 dead bodies recovered from Kamal Adwan hospital and its surroundings
• Heavy artillery shelling now in the vicinity of Al-Awda Hospital, Tal al-Zaatar
• Drone strike in front of Al-Fakhoura School. 2 killed:
  1. Mohammed Rafiq Al Sheikh
  2. Mahmoud Al Sheikh (cousin)
• IDF troops arrest Dr. Mohammed Obaid from Awda hospital

Evening

• Large-scale massacre in Beit Lahia as the IDF bombarded a residential block of five houses belonging to three families. Initial estimates placed casuaties at over 30 people killed.
• Artillery shelling on a house in Jabalia al-Nazla kills 2.