FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
Patients, staff and displaced persons left Gaza's largest hospital on November 18, health officials said. Only a few staff members remain at the hospital and are caring for patients who cannot be evacuated because they are in serious condition, as Israeli forces took control of the hospital building earlier in the week.
The Israeli military is conducting searches at Shifa Hospital, aiming to find evidence of a command center of Hamas - the Palestinian group designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union - which it claims is located under the hospital building. Hamas and the hospital staff have rejected these claims.
On Saturday, the Israeli military said it had been asked by the hospital's director to help provide a safe route for people wanting to leave the hospital.
The military said it has not ordered any evacuations, but that medical personnel are being allowed to stay at the hospital to care for patients who cannot leave.
But Medhat Abbas, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza-controlled Gaza, said the Israeli army had ordered the building to be cleared, giving the hospital an hour to evacuate people.
Later, Shifa hospital doctor Ahmed Mokhallalati wrote on social media that close to 120 patients are still in the hospital due to the inability to leave, including some who are in the intensive care unit and premature babies. He said that five doctors are taking care of them.
It is still not clear where the people who left the hospital have gone, as 25 hospitals in Gaza are out of order due to lack of fuel, damage sustained and other problems. According to international health authorities, only 11 hospitals are partially operational.
Israel has said that hospitals in northern Gaza are a key target of its ground operation, which aims to destroy Hamas.
Israeli troops have surrounded several hospitals, while others have been shut down due to lack of supplies and electricity.
The war, now in its seventh week, was sparked by the October 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, when the group's attackers killed nearly 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 240 others.
More than 11,400 Palestinians have been killed during the war, two-thirds of them women and children, according to Palestinian health authorities. Another 2,700 are reported missing and believed to be trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings. In the casualty figures presented by the Palestinian authorities, no distinction is made between Hamas fighters and civilians. Israel has said that it has killed thousands of Hamas attackers./ REL
Lini një Përgjigje