The Israeli army announced this Monday the withdrawal of its troops from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after two weeks of attack who left behind a trail of destruction many burnt buildings, while Gaza authorities reported charred and decomposing bodies at a center that is not operational.

“Israeli forces have completed their clear operations around Shifa Hospital and They left the hospital grounds“confirmed the military statement after Palestinian witnesses confirmed EFE withdrawal of troops around 4:30 am (1:30 Moscow time).

During operations at the hospital, which began two weeks ago with the siege of the center, Israel claims that eliminated about 200 “terrorists” and interrogated about 900 suspectsamong whom he named more than 500 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, including senior officials.

Shifa Hospital, the largest in the entire sector. and one of the few in the north that was partially functioningcompletely incapacitated after two weeks of military operation.

“The destruction of the complex makes it impossible to resume work and the hospital is not functioning,” said Shifa director Marwan Abu Saada.

Published photographs of the condition of Shifa Hospital after the withdrawal of Israeli troops show a wide trail of destruction throughout the areain the process, buildings were destroyed and much of the medical complex burned down in a massive fire as a result of the attacks over a two-week period.

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Busal said that after Israeli troops left, they found hospital corpses with traces of execution, others were burned and were also in a state of decomposition.

“Most bodies decompose, and we reach bodies that These are skeletons burned inside a medical complex.“Busal said, noting that it was difficult to count casualties because Israeli troops “raised the streets with excavators and “They buried the bodies.”

Israeli forces insist that their military operationsThey were not directed against “patients, medical personnel or medical equipment.”“Although the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health said this Sunday that the troop incursion has left at least 400 dead throughout the territory, where they destroyed more than a thousand houses.

While we were waiting for this count, the total number of deaths in almost six months of war exceeded 32 thousand 800 There were 74,500 wounded.

The sector’s health ministry said yesterday that two weeks of military operations in the Shifa region had borne fruit. at least 400 lives with the destruction of more than a thousand houses in the surrounding area, in the absence of a count of victims in the medical complex.

Yesterday, 107 patients remained in the facility.”in inhumane conditions, without water, medicine, food or electricity.”including 30 disabled people and about 60 medical workers.

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Among them, a wounded and sick man with diabetes who survived the new attack on Shifu reported that did not receive any medical care for 15 days and that he was moved from one apartment to another several times until “the sounds of explosions stopped.”

“I can’t believe he’s still alive.” He said this in a video released by health authorities on the Strip.

Another survivor says he was lying in his bed when Israeli troops stormed the hospital at dawn two weeks ago. “under cover of fire and brutal bombing.”

“There were no red lines in murder and torture”they resorted to the most brutal and humiliating methods against us. “They were shooting over our heads just for fun,” he said.

It was yours fourth raid against one of the few hospitals that they continued to operate partially in the north of the sector, which Israel justified by receiving “precise intelligence information” about the presence of militias inside the complex.

“This was one of the Army’s most successful operations in the sector due to the large number of terrorist militants we eliminated or captured. “much more than we initially thought”This was stated by army spokesman Daniel Hagary.

The representative insisted that Israeli forces had done everything possible to minimize harm to civilians and they evacuated more than 300 patients.

“The terrible crime committed by the occupying authorities of the Shifa complex confirms the nature“This is a fascist formation that moves away from the values ​​of civilization and humanity.”the Islamist group Hamas, which de facto controls the sector, expressed regret.

The Health Ministry also said that Nasser Hospital, the main hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the country, which has been under siege by Israeli forces for more than a week, is on the verge of collapse and called on international institutions to act.

“The fact that the Nasser is out of commission is a heavy blow to the health services, which were reduced to the lowest level, especially after losing most of the health services in the north,” he said.

Given the “almost complete paralysis” of the health system, the ministry called on displaced persons do not seek further refuge in hospitals, limit their numbers to the sick and wounded so that they can receive appropriate treatment and prevent overcrowding and the spread of disease.

(EFE)