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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored calls from Western allies to do more to protect Palestinian civilians after his country's army surrounded the main hospital in the Gaza Strip where doctors said they died. five patients, including a baby, after the last generator ran out of fuel.
Israel has described Shifa Hospital as the main command center of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, saying the group's militants are using civilians as human shields and have created bunkers underneath.
Hamas and Shifa have denied these accusations. In recent days, fighting near Shifa and other hospitals in northern Gaza fighting zones has intensified, while supplies have been depleted.
"There is no electricity. Medical supplies have been stopped. Patients, especially those in intensive care, are starting to die ," said Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of Shifa Hospital, speaking on the phone amid the sounds of explosions and gunfire.
Abu Selmia said that the Israeli troops "are shooting at all the people outside or inside the hospital", and that they are preventing movement between the buildings in this area. His claim that the shots in Shifa were fired only by Israeli troops cannot be independently verified.
Asked about reports that its troops were firing weapons in the courtyard of Shifa Hospital, Israel's military said only that its troops are fighting Hamas nearby and that it is taking all possible measures to prevent harm to civilians. . She said Israeli troops have encountered hundreds of Hamas fighters in buildings, schools, mosques and basement clinics during the fighting in Gaza.
In Shifa, five patients died after the generator shut down due to a lack of fuel and electricity, said Medhat Abbas, spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health. Netanyahu said responsibility for civilian harm rests with Hamas, repeating long-standing accusations that the radical group is using civilians in Gaza as human shields.
He said that while Israel has called on civilians to leave the fighting areas, "Hamas is doing everything to prevent them from leaving." Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron told the BBC late Friday that Israel must stop bombing the Gaza Strip and killing civilians.
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