The Israeli army forcibly deported most of the patients from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, as well as all the displaced Palestinians who were in the hospital.
Gaza Health Director Munir al-Bersh said that out of 650 patients in the hospital, only about 100-120 people remained and that they needed coordination with the United Nations (UN) for their evacuation.
He said they contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross to prevent the babies in the incubators from being moved from the hospital. Bersh stated that they could leave only five doctors to help patients.
He said that Israeli soldiers had been negotiating all night to get them to leave Al Shifa Hospital.
Stating that the displaced Palestinians in the hospital were asked to leave on foot and were forced to do so.
Bersh said that they left the area with patients on stretchers and wheelchairs, adding that they were afraid that Israeli snipers, who were stationed on top of buildings along the road, might open fire on them.
They were walking from the hospital towards the south of Gaza, and Bersh emphasized that the patients and injured people next to them were shouting for help because of the pain they were feeling.
Emphasizing that the situation in the Al-Shifa hospital, which was invaded by Israeli soldiers, was very bad, Bersh stated that soldiers are constantly walking around the hospital, and snipers are stationed on the tops of the buildings.
Partially established communications in Gaza
Telephone and Internet communications links were partially restored in Gaza today after fuel was delivered to run the generators without which they are not possible.
Israel has announced that it will allow two fuel tankers a day to enter Gaza for the needs of the United Nations (UN) and for communication systems.
The approved amount of fuel is about half of what the UN is requesting to rescue hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza, including starting a water supply system, running hospitals, bakeries and trucks delivering the most urgent aid.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Michigan, in the United States of America, meanwhile stormed a university building there. Forty people were arrested.
At least 11,470 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom are women and children, have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza, and around 2,700 people are missing.
In the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, about 1,200 people were killed and about 240 were captured.
More than two days after Israeli soldiers stormed Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, doctors said they had amputated people’s arms and legs to avoid infection.
The hospital’s director, Mohamed Abu Selmiya, said 52 patients had died since the fuel ran out. That’s 12 more people than were reported before the Israeli army’s incursion.
The Israeli military is still looking for evidence to support allegations that Hamas used the hospital as a command center, Beta reports.
