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The largest operating hospital in the Gaza Strip is located besieged this Friday by Israeli forces. Patients and doctors are helpless in the chaos as warplanes attack Rafah.
The largest operating hospital in the Gaza Strip is located besieged this Friday by Israeli forces. Patients and doctors are helpless in the chaos as warplanes attack Rafah. last refuge Palestinians in the enclave, official sources said.
Israeli forces said on Thursday that They stormed the medical complex located in Khan Yunis on the south of the Strip. The footage showed screams and gunshots in the corridors during the incursion, which raised new alarm about the fate of hundreds of patients and medical workers, as well as many displaced Palestinians who had taken refuge there from the fighting.
The Israeli army described the raid on Nasser’s hospital as “precise and limitedand said it was based on information that Hamas militants were hiding and holding hostages at the medical center, including that the bodies of some captives may have been located there.
Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Photo: Reuters Archive
Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday that five hospital patients died in intensive care due to a power outage and interruption of oxygen supply.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it was trying to reach Nasser’s hospital after the Israeli raid. “There are still seriously injured and sick patients in hospital,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said.
“There is an urgent need for fuel supplies to ensure continuing to provide vital services (…) We are trying to gain access because the people who are still in the Nasser medical complex need help.”
The Israeli army said that during the operation, soldiers detained more than 20 Palestinians who took part in the October 7 attack, as well as dozens of others under interrogation. The soldiers also found ammunition and weapons in the hospital.
A woman after arriving in Rafah after being evacuated from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Photo: Reuters
Earlier this week, Gaza’s health ministry said it 10,000 refugees at the hospital, but many left, fearing an Israeli invasion was imminent.
The war began when Hamas, backed by Iran, sent militants against Israel October 7, 2023Israel estimates that 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 253 hostages were taken.
Since then, Israeli air and ground offensives have devastated tiny Gaza, killing 28,775 peopleMost of them are civilians, according to Palestinian health authorities, and have forced nearly all of their more than 2 million residents to flee their homes.
Israeli soldiers walk next to abandoned vehicles after the October 7 terrorist attack. Photo: Reuters
Officials and witnesses say Israel attacked schools, universities, government offices and mosques in bombings against Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs an enclave where its leaders, whom Israel has vowed to track down, are believed to be hiding, possibly in a complex network underground tunnels.
Gaza health authorities said Israel had forced the evacuation of dozens of staff, patients, displaced people and family members of medical staff. refugees in Nasser hospital.
The power generators stopped and power to the site was completely cut off.
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