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50 people were killed and dozens more injured after Israel attacked an ambulance convoy near al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip.
The attack happened this afternoon while the news was confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A convoy of ambulances was transporting seriously injured patients from al-Shifa hospital to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt when it was targeted in an Israeli attack, said Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry.
"We have informed the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, we have informed the whole world that those victims were in those ambulances. This was a medical convoy. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its ambulances was targeted in the attack near al-Shifa," he said.
Palestinian Red Crescent spokesman Mohamed Abu Musbah said the area where the ambulance was hit was "extremely full of civilians".
Gaza's largest hospital, al-Shifa, is facing overcrowding, with a bed occupancy rate of 164 percent according to the World Health Organization (WHO), amid ongoing Israeli bombardment and blockade of the territory.
At least 16 hospitals across Gaza are no longer functioning due to damage from strikes and fuel shortages, the health ministry said.
The WHO warned on Wednesday that the lack of fuel "endangers the lives of the wounded and other patients.
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