Amman, January 17 (EFE). – Jordan's Khan Yunis field hospital in the southern Gaza Strip has been heavily damaged in recent hours by ongoing Israeli bombing in its surroundings, official sources reported on Wednesday.
In one of the clashes between the Palestinian factions and the Israeli army in Khan Younis, a hospital worker was injured “in the right thigh and right hand”, although this is not serious and he will be evacuated by air to Jordanian territory for treatment. Jordanian news agency Petra reported.
Despite the bombings and clashes, Jordanian authorities confirmed that the field hospital, one of two health centers the Jordanian army operates in the enclave, “will continue to fulfill its medical and humanitarian duty to the population of the Gaza Strip,” they told a military source General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces to Petra.
The Jordanian Armed Forces blamed Israel for the attack on the safety of hospital staff and asserted that “the attack constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.”
The military source said the Jordanian government would take “all necessary measures in response to the aggression” and called on Israel to “comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law” and “not to attack hospitals and make it difficult for medical personnel to carry out their duties.” fulfill”. Tasks.” “.
Fighting continues in the hospital area between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces trying to advance south.
The war in Gaza has now lasted 103 days since the Hamas attack that sparked the conflict on October 7 and killed around 1,200 people in Israel.
Since then, the death toll from Israeli bombings and attacks on the Gaza Strip has been confirmed at nearly 24,300 and it is estimated that around 8,000 missing people have died under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The Israeli army announced it had entered a new, lower-intensity phase of the war while reducing troops on the ground after saying it was almost reducing the military structure in the north as part of its goal to completely eradicate Hamas The Islamist group from the Gaza Strip has been completely dismantled. EFE
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