People trying to escape from Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital are being killed by a sniper and airstrikes, the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported.
“We need guarantees that there is a safe corridor because we saw some people trying to leave Al Shifa, they were killed, they were bombed, a sniper killed them,” Médecins Sans Frontières posted on its X- Social network account.
The organization reported that it could not abandon the 600 hospitalized patients, including 37 babies, “some of whom must remain in intensive care.”
“There are many bodies in front of the main entrance, there are also injured patients, we cannot bring them in,” said another message, quoting a Doctors Without Borders employee who managed to communicate from the hospital.
Doctors Without Borders workers said the vehicle was attacked as they sent an ambulance to bring patients who were “a few meters” from the hospital.
“There is a sniper who attacked the patients, they have gunshot wounds, we operated on three of them.” “The situation is very bad, it is inhumane,” the note said.
The organization stated that hospital staff are incommunicado, there is no electricity, water or food, and patients “will die in a few hours without working ventilators.”
“The medical team agrees to leave the hospital only if patients are evacuated first: we do not want to abandon our patients,” he added.
On October 7, in an unprecedented attack, the Palestinian movement Hamas fired thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip and carried out an armed incursion into the border areas of southern Israel, prompting the Jewish state’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare the country “is at war.”
In response, the Israeli military mobilized 300,000 reservists, launched several waves of airstrikes, and on October 28, Netanyahu announced that Israeli troops had entered the Gaza Strip and entered the second phase of the war to destroy Hamas’ infrastructure and recapture hostages.
Since October 9, Israel has left the Palestinian enclave without basic services, although on October 16 it resumed water supplies to the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are being displaced.
Many countries called on Israel and Hamas to cease hostilities and negotiate a ceasefire, and there were voices for a two-state solution as the only possible way to achieve lasting peace in the region.
According to data controllers, the hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement have so far caused about 1,200 deaths and almost 5,500 injuries in Israel, and almost 11,200 deaths, including more than 4,600 minors, and more than 28,000 injuries in the Gaza Strip.