Some 190 sick and wounded were evacuated on Wednesday from Al Shifa Hospital, the main hospital in Gaza and the site of intense fighting for days, the UN said today, which also condemned new attacks on other hospitals with dozens of deaths, while Gaza prepares for a truce, which Israel says could be delayed until tomorrow, Friday.

The evacuees at Al Shifa (including fellow patients) were captured in a convoy of ambulances on the south Strip, in an operation coordinated by humanitarian agencies and the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a daily report.

The evacuation was extended by almost 20 hours due to obstacles to vehicle passage at Israeli security checkpoints between the north and south of the Gaza Strip.something that endangered the lives of evacuees, ladded the United Nations.

According to the UN, there are still some The hospital has 250 patients and medical workers, which was the main force in the Gaza Strip before the fighting began and, according to the Israeli army, served as a refuge and even an operational center for Hamas militias.

During the evacuation, the Israeli army detained the director of Al-Shifa Hospital Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who was taken to an unspecified location for questioning. In addition, the center’s doctor said that Israeli soldiers wouldThey raided the center’s emergency department on Wednesday. no details yet.

Israeli military sources cited by Israeli public broadcaster Kan confirmed the arrest of the hospital director and indicated that he would be interrogated in the area and then handed over to the Shin Bet, the General Security Service, which acts as an internal intelligence service. .

The UN daily report also indicates that on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza Strip damaged by explosions This affected the surgical department, shortly after about 500 people were evacuated from the facility.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, in the vicinity of the hospital there are about 60 corpsesalthough the UN report does not specify whether they were victims of the latest attacks.

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Another attack on a hospital on Wednesday, in Kamal Adwan, also in the northern Gaza Strip. As a result, about 60 people were killed and a thousand were injured. at one of two still operating hospital centers in the northern half of the strip.

Another attack on a humanitarian facility recorded in a UN report caused 15 deaths, nine of them children, at a school housing internally displaced people in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, from which a thousand people had to be evacuated and sheltered inside.

Attacks remain high intensity despite the supposed proximity of a truce, and over the past 24 hours, according to the UN, those who caused the death of about 30 people in an attack on 10 buildings in the same area of ​​the capital Gaza stood out.

After more than a week of being unable to update the number of victims of the conflict due to a lack of contact with hospitals in the north, the Gaza government, through its information office, has estimated that more than 14,500 people died (including more than 6,000 children and 4,000 women) in the conflict since October 7.

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Over the past 24 hours, the flow of people forcibly evacuated from north to south of Gaza by order of the Israeli authorities, reaching thousands of people daily, has increased. dropped to only about 250 due to expectations of a humanitarian pauseafter an agreement on the exchange of hostages and prisoners between Israel and Hamas.

(according to information from EFE and Europe Press)