Israel today told staff at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where the army entered last Wednesday immediate order to evacuate the health center. The army gave the more than a thousand people in the building – including patients, medical staff and civilian refugees from northern Gaza – one hour to leave the facilities and move south.
Doctors at the hospital told the radio station Al Jazeera It was “impossible” to evacuate the hospital in an hour because they do not have enough ambulances or fuel to transport the 300 patients, most of whom are in critical condition and cannot move on their own. Doctors say the Israeli army has provided them no other solution, transportation or fuel to bring patients, premature babies and displaced families to the south.
In the last week, 40 hospital patients have died, including four premature babies, due to power outages in the region, the United Nations reported. The Israeli army claimed that Hamas had built tunnels in the hospital’s basement leading to one of the organization’s headquarters. He entered the hospital three days ago, but so far they have found no evidence that the militant group was using the facilities for this purpose.
Fighting between the army and Hamas fighters continues around the center. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was trying to evacuate some of its staff and their families – 137 people in total – who were stuck in the organization’s facilities in Gaza City. Because of the clashes, they have not been able to take to the streets since last Saturday.
Humanitarian organizations are completely overwhelmed by this Lack of food and fuel for operations, but also due to the overcrowding of refugees due to the Israeli army’s evacuation orders. The United Nations announced that 830,000 people are currently seeking refuge in the 154 locations in Gaza managed by its agency. Overpopulation is so great that it exists one shower per 700 people and one bathroom per 150.
Thanks to the organization’s pressure, Israel has agreed to send 140,000 liters of fuel to the Gaza Strip every two days to keep basic services such as clean water, sewage, hospitals and mobile phone networks running.
On the other hand, 28 Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The Israeli army has asked to evacuate part of the city south of the Gaza Strip. If the requirement is met, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have fled the territory’s north will have to resettle again.
“We are asking people to move. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want civilians to get caught in the crossfire,” Mark Regev, assistant to the prime minister, told MSNBC. Benjamin Netanyahu. For days, the army has been dropping leaflets in towns east of Khan Yunis, urging the population to move south. “Israeli troops will advance to any location where Hamas exists, including the southern part of the Gaza Strip,” army spokesman Daniel Hagari said.
This Saturday the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will speak to President Abdul Fattah el Sisi about sending EU humanitarian aid to Gaza in Egypt. Meanwhile, the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrellcontinues its journey through the Middle East to deal with a post-conflict scenario. After passing through Israel, he is today in Bahrain, where he reiterated that the Palestinian Authority, which now governs the West Bank, should regain control of Gaza.
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