2023-11-16 07:39:18
Israeli forces have stormed the Al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City “for the second time in 24 hours.” This was reported by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA on Thursday morning. Bulldozers and military vehicles were in use, the agency quoted people familiar with the matter as saying. The Shehab news agency, which is close to the terrorist organization Hamas, reported that Israeli tanks were attacking from the south.
Gunshots were also heard in the area, according to the agency. The information might not be independently verified. The Israeli military action began on Wednesday night. “Tonight we are carrying out a targeted operation at Al-Shifa Hospital. We are moving forward,” said Major General Jaron Finkelman in charge on the army’s Telegram channel late on Wednesday evening. The procedure is controversial because hospitals are particularly protected places in times of war. Israel argues that the terrorist organization Hamas is taking advantage of this fact and has set up a command center in Al-Shifa Hospital. She is also supposed to shoot at the Israeli soldiers from the building.
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 must not be used in any way in any fight. They are protected by international humanitarian law.”
Meanwhile, Egypt currently sees no upper limit for the admission and treatment of injured people from the embattled Gaza Strip. Egypt is ready 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, said this to journalists on Wednesday. Other hospitals are also still willing to accept Palestinians.
Egypt’s Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar had also already stated that all injured people entering the country would be treated. “We are ready to treat all medical cases that come through the Rafah border crossing, but the Israeli side controls their number,” Abdel Ghaffar said recently.
Since the border was reopened on October 21st, according to Egyptian information, around 150 injured people have passed through the sealed-off Palestinian coastal area. These include people with broken bones, severe burns, injured organs and severed limbs, Mansur said.
The number of injured people treated in Egypt is negligible given the situation in the Gaza Strip. According to an information office in the Hamas-controlled administration, the number of Palestinians killed there has risen to 11,500, and 29,000 people have been injured since the war began on October 7th. The information might not initially be confirmed independently.
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