It is the most important hospital in the Strip, and there have already been deaths among the more than 30,000 displaced people who took refuge inside.
The Israeli Army besieged this early Monday morning with tanks and snipers and attacked for the fourth time since the war in the Strip began the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the most important in the enclave, causing deaths among the more than 30,000 displaced people. who were taking refuge in that center, the Gaza Ministry of Health has denounced.
“Following intelligence information indicating the presence of terrorists in the Al Shifa hospital area and its use to carry out terrorist activities“The forces are carrying out a precise operation to thwart terrorist activity and arrest the terrorists on the hospital grounds,” the Israeli Army said.
The Gaza Ministry of Health, which has described the operation as “massacre against sick, wounded, displaced and medical personnel“, has indicated that the Israeli forces fired bullets directly towards the building of the medical complex where specialized surgeries are performed and targeted it with missiles, in addition to introducing tanks and military vehicles into the courtyards of the complex.
“It is a true tragedy and an attack on health institutions that violates all international laws and regulations“said a Ministry spokesperson about the fourth Israeli operation inside the hospital, which is still continuing.
Furthermore, the attack caused a fire at the hospital door, so there have been cases of suffocation among displaced women and childrenin addition to the fact that the center’s communications have been cut off.
As proof that supports the operationthe Army released a conversation between a COGAT liaison (the military body that manages civil and administrative affairs in the occupied territories) with the director of Al Shifa, in which he supposedly informed him about the “terrorist activities” of Hamas in the hospital and the need to put an end to them.
It is the fourth time that Israel attacks this hospital, the most important in the Strip.
The first time was in November, when he kept it fenced for more than ten days; ordered the evacuation of thousands of displaced wounded and sick; He detained numerous medical personnel, including his director, and said he had seized numerous Hamas weapons and material.
Source: Eitb
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