Clashes broke out in the streets surrounding Gaza City’s largest hospital on Saturday as the facility ran out of fuel and went dark.
The Israel Defense Forces vehemently denied laying siege to Al-Shifa Hospital, which they say sits atop a major center of tunnels dug by Hamas, and pledged to help evacuate babies from the facility. paralyzed on Sunday.
An Israeli military official told CNN that troops were engaged in “intense continuous fighting” against Hamas near Al-Shifa Hospital, which has about 1,500 patients and an equal number of medical staff, and that between 15,000 and 20,000 civilians are being evacuated. taking refuge from the fighting.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari dismissed what he called “false reports” that the hospital was a target.
“We are fighting terrorists who choose to fight near Shifa hospital,” he said, according to The Times of Israel.
“Today there has been a lot of misinformation from Gaza. That’s why I want to clarify the facts. There is no siege, I repeat, there is no siege of Shifa hospital. The east side of the hospital is open for the safe passage of Gazans who wish to leave the hospital,” Hagari said.
Smoke rises from ruined buildings in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, seen from Sderot.NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
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A hospital spokesperson said two premature babies died and 37 others were at risk after the facility lost power, Al Jazeera reported.
“We are speaking directly and regularly with hospital staff,” Hagari said.
“The staff at Shifa Hospital have requested that tomorrow we help the babies from the pediatric department to reach a safer hospital. “We will provide the necessary assistance.”
Israeli soldiers take a position inside the Gaza Strip, amid the Israeli army’s ongoing ground operation against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.via REUTERS
Another patient was killed when an Israeli projectile hit the intensive care unit, hospital spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said on Saturday.
“All I can say is that we have started to lose lives. “Patients are dying minute by minute, victims and the injured are also dying, even babies in incubators,” added Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa hospital, reported Israeli media outlet Haaretz.
The hospital, the largest in Gaza City, is officially without electricity, internet, water and is running out of medical supplies, he said.
Fighting in the Gaza Strip intensified this week.NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
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The terrible situation led the International Committee of the Red Cross to speak out and regret that Gaza’s health system had reached a “point of no return” after more than a month of fighting.
“Gaza’s overstretched, undersupplied and increasingly insecure health system has reached the point of no return, putting the lives of thousands of wounded, sick and displaced people at risk,” the ICRC warned.
Israeli tanks were reportedly approaching a second hospital where 14,000 displaced people are sheltering.
In other developments:
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s claims that there is “no justification” for the current Israeli siege of civilians in Gaza, more than a month after Hamas invaded southern Israel and killed to 1,400 people.
“A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender,” Netanyahu insisted, adding that he believes any civilian casualties in Gaza are Hamas’ fault.
“Hamas-ISIS cruelly holds hostages – women, children and the elderly – which is a crime against humanity,” he said.
“Hamas-ISIS uses schools, mosques and hospitals as terrorism headquarters.”
“The crimes that Hamas-ISIS are committing today in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and everywhere in the world. “World leaders must condemn Hamas-ISIS and not Israel.”
A military drone flies over the northern part of the Gaza Strip.NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
- Social media posts on Saturday showed Hamas shooting at Gazan civilians trying to move south during lulls in fighting. About 50,000 people are believed to have evacuated northern Gaza and moved south during lulls in fighting.
- The IDF said on Saturday that five more Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza fighting on Friday, including four who were killed when a booby trap exploded in a tunnel near them. That brought the total number of soldiers killed to 42 since the operation began.
- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah seized on the fissure in Israel’s relations with Western powers in a fiery statement boasting of growing global pressure on Israel’s military to abandon its Gaza offensive.
“We see thousands of people in Washington, New York, London and Paris protesting against Israel,” Nasrallah said in a speech at an Arab-Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
“The only voice that stands out [as an Israeli ally] they are the United States and its ‘follower’ the United Kingdom,” Nasrallah, who has been secretary general of Hezbollah since 1992, said in a videotaped speech.
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War between Israel and Hamas: how we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after seizing the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fire rockets at the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early morning ambush on October 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
The terrorists killed more than 1,400 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200 and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce: “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 wounded since the war began.
He called for greater pressure on the United States.
“If you want to put an end to the attacks on this secondary front [in Iraq and Syria]you must impose the end of the [Israeli] attack on Gaza,” he said in a direct attack on the Biden administration.
- The summit, hosted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, later issued a statement calling for a definitive end to the fighting in Gaza and demanding that the world not remain silent or turn a blind eye to the suffering of the Palestinians.
“The only solution to this conflict is to continue resistance against Israeli oppression until the establishment of the Palestinian state from the river to the sea,” Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi told attendees at the high-profile meeting in a statement that echoed the demonstration. cries of pro-Palestinian protesters around the world.
“We want to make a historic and decisive decision about what is happening in the Palestinian territories. Killing civilians and bombing hospitals are manifestations of Israeli crimes in Gaza. Today, each person must decide which side they are on,” the statement said.
- Netanyahu said IDF forces are also active on other fronts, including the West Bank, Syria and the Red Sea.
The IDF said it was carrying out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in response to missile and rocket attacks on northern Israel.
Netanyahu warned Hezbollah not to expand the war. “It will be the mistake of their lives,” he said, and it would seal the fate of Lebanon.
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