Gaza’ Media Office has said the Israeli forces have launched “an unprecedented brutal attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp,” leaving dozens of people killed and wounded in the streets, Al Jazeera reports.

“[It] continues its aggression against all areas of the Central Governorate, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital [in Deir el-Balah] is in a catastrophic situation,” it said.

Israeli forces launched “a barbaric and brutal aggression” in the camp, directly targeting civilians, the office said, adding that ambulances and civil defence cannot reach the area due to the intensity of the bombing.

The office warned that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only hospital in the Central Governorate currently working on only one electric generator; if the sole generator stops, “a real disaster” will ensue.

“This hospital provides health services to a million people and displaced persons, and it cannot accommodate this large number of martyrs and injuries,” it said.

It called on the international community, the UN and all international organisations “to intervene immediately and urgently save the hospital and save the health situation in the Central Governorate.”

“We hold the [Israeli] occupation and the American administration fully responsible for this catastrophic crime in which the blood of dozens of innocent civilians was shed,” it said.

“We call on the international community and all international organisations to stop this brutal aggression continued by the ‘Israeli’ occupation, and we demand that they stop the genocidal war immediately and urgently.”