Israeli forces stormed the Al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City “for the second time in 24 hours.” The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported this on Thursday morning.
Bulldozers and military vehicles were in use, the agency cited people familiar with the matter. Shehab news agency, which is close to the Hamas terror organization, reported that Israeli tanks attacked from the south.
Gunshots were also heard in the area, according to the department. The information could not be independently verified. The Israeli military action began on Wednesday evening. “Tonight we are conducting a targeted operation at Al-Shifa Hospital. We continue to advance,” Major General Jaron Finkelman said late Wednesday evening on the army’s Telegram channel.
Broad criticism of Israel
The procedure is controversial because hospitals are particularly protected places in times of war. Israel claims that the terrorist organization Hamas is taking advantage of this fact and has set up a command center in Al-Shifa Hospital. She would also shoot at Israeli soldiers from the building.
Israel claims to provide the clinic with aid:
The UN and the World Health Organization (WHO) criticize the fighting around the hospital. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York on Wednesday that “hospitals should not be used in any way in any battle. They are protected by international humanitarian law.”
Everyone who reaches Rafah is treated
Meanwhile, Egypt currently has no upper limit for the admission and treatment of injured people from the disputed Gaza Strip. Egypt is willing to accept any number of injured people as long as they can reach the Rafah border crossing.
Ahmed Mansur, head of the hospital in the coastal town of Al-Arish near the border crossing, told journalists on Wednesday. Other hospitals are also still willing to accept Palestinians.
Egyptian Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar had also stated that all injured people entering the country would be treated. “We are ready to handle all medical cases coming through the Rafah crossing, but the Israeli side is controlling their numbers,” Abdel Ghaffar said recently.
Hardly anyone crosses the border
Since the border was reopened on October 21, about 150 injured people have passed through the closed Palestinian coastal area, according to Egyptian information. These include people with broken bones, severe burns, injured organs and severed limbs, Mansur said.
The number of injured people being treated in Egypt is negligible given the situation in the Gaza Strip. The number of Palestinians killed there has risen to 11,500 and 29,000 people have been injured since the war began on October 7, according to an information agency of the Hamas-controlled government. The information could not initially be independently confirmed.
Source: Krone
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