Jerusalem, November 3 (EFE). – The Palestinian Red Crescent (MLRP) today condemned an attack on the Al-Shifa hospital full of patients and shelters for thousands of displaced people, which coincided with a caravan of ambulances carrying the wounded heading towards Jerusalem, south of the Gaza Strip.
“Attack on a Red Crescent ambulance parked in front of Al-Shifa Hospital. Our colleagues were miraculously saved,” the organization wrote on the social network X, accompanied by a photo showing the damaged ambulance and a dead horse
To date there is no further official information about possible casualties as a result of the attack.
Two hours earlier, the MLRP also reported attacks on Al-Quds Hospital, without mentioning the number of victims, although it recalled that 14,000 displaced people, most of them women and children, are taking refuge in this hospital.
The Gaza Health Ministry had reported hours before it planned to charter an ambulance caravan of wounded people to travel through Al Rashid Street to the south of the Gaza Strip at 4:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT) and asked the Red Cross to accompany the convoy.
“Given the urgent need to save the lives of the wounded (…), we ask everyone to fulfill their responsibilities and announce that a convoy of ambulances with a large number of wounded people will leave to transport them to the south of the Gaza Strip “The note then said.
Health authorities said there were “hundreds of seriously injured and critically ill people” who could no longer be treated at Al-Shifa Hospital and “required admission to hospitals in the Arab Republic of Egypt.”
According to the Gaza Ministry, they had already “informed the International Committee of the Red Cross of the need to ensure protection and safe passage so that the wounded could leave without obtaining the approval of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the Israeli occupation.”
On November 1, the first wounded Gazans entered Egypt through Rafah Post, an operation that also took place the following day.
About fifty Egyptian ambulances transported dozens of people seriously injured in Israel’s bombing of Gaza to Egyptian hospitals for admission, as the situation in health centers in Gaza deteriorated. EFE
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