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The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, which is part of the Red Cross, said this had been ordered Israel for Evacuate AlQuds Hospital, in Gaza City, night part of the territory. Since the morning of this Sunday, the 29th, Israel has been bombarding the surrounding area Hospital that serves as accommodation for 12,000 Palestinians and 400 patients.
“We have just received serious threats from the occupying authorities [Israe] to immediately evacuate the AlQuds Hospital in the Gaza Strip because it could be bombed. “There have been bomb attacks around 50 meters from the hospital since this morning,” the organization said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
O Red crescent Video from inside the hospital was also shared, showing dozens of people lying on the floor, some injured, as well as rooms covered in debris, dust and broken windows.
🏥👨👩👦👦 Civilians, hospitals and medical personnel should not be targets.
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— PRCS (@PalestineRCS)
October 29, 2023
World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern about Israeli threats. “We reiterate: it is impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without endangering their lives. According to international humanitarian law, medical centers must always be protected,” he explained in X.
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The report of evacuation threats to AlQuds Hospital in Gaza is deeply worrying.We emphasize again: It is impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without endangering their lives.
According to international humanitarian law, health care must always be protected.
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros)
October 29, 2023
O AlQuds Hospital It is located in the northern part of Gaza, the region where Israeli incursions are taking place. Israel had previously reiterated that its “request” to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip was now “urgent.” The only option for Palestinians would be to seek refuge in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, but bombing continues there too.
“For two weeks we have been calling on residents of the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City to temporarily move south. Moving south is for your personal safety. “Today we emphasize that this is an urgent call,” said the main spokesman Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Daniel Hagari.
Israeli occupation forces continue to fire targeted rockets directly near the AlQuds Hospital
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to force medical staff, displaced people and patients to evacuate the hospital. This has caused significant damage to hospital departments and exposed residents and…
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— PRCS (@PalestineRCS)
October 29, 2023
Understand the main points of the war between Israel and Hamas:
- Since the conflict began, more than 8,005 Palestinians have died, including 3,595 children and 2,062 women, and more than 20,000 have been injured; on the Israeli side, 1,405 Israelis died, including 311 soldiers and 57 police officers, and more than 5,431 were injured;
- An estimated 239 people, most of them Israelis, were kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza; only 4 have already been published; however, the exact number of prisoners has changed since the conflict began; Israeli authorities say 40 people are missing in addition to the 239 hostages;
- In the 22 days of the conflict, about 45% of Gaza’s homes were completely or partially destroyed and more than 1.4 million Palestinians were displaced from their homes to other parts of Gaza due to Israel’s evacuation order;
- On the 21st day of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) increased bombings of the Gaza Strip and cut off internet and telephone access for Palestinians. The Gaza Strip, which was already without electricity, without fuel and practically without drinking water, also remained incommunicado;
- After weeks of announcing a possible ground invasion of Gaza, Netanyahu authorized a ground operation on October 28 and attacks intensified.
- On October 27, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza; the Palestinian representative to the United Nations had already called for an immediate ceasefire; Texts from Brazil, Russia and the USA have already been vetoed in the UN Security Council; The Brazilian proposal received a single veto from a permanent member from the United States.
- Since the bombings began, human rights organizations and the UN have warned of the risk of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. With hospitals and morgues overcrowded, Palestinians even used ice cream trucks and food coolers to store corpses.
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- Humanitarian aid did not arrive in Gaza until October 20, 13 days after the conflict began.
- On October 17, the bombing of the AlAhli Baptist Hospital in Gaza claimed at least 500 lives; Israel blamed Islamic Jihad for the bombing. The group denied this; On the 19th, the third oldest church in the world, the Church of São Porfírio in the Gaza Strip, was bombed.
- On October 7, Hamas carried out the largest wave of attacks against Israel, resulting in more than 1,200 deaths; Benjamin Netanyahu, who already pursued policies that promoted the expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank, where Hamas has no control, declared war on Hamas and spoke of destroying the group, which would trigger a new wave of attacks on Gaza;
- What is Hamas? Hamas is a military, political and social organization that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it won Palestinian parliamentary elections. The group is considered a terrorist organization by European Union countries and the United States, but not by the United Nations;
- What is the siege of Gaza? The Gaza Strip has been under an intensive land, air and sea blockade since 2007, with restrictions on the import of basic goods, and is considered an “openair prison” by analysts, researchers and human rights organizations;
- Palestinian State: Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, Palestinians have been demanding the creation of their state (which includes the West Bank).
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