2023-12-12 14:03:45
The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, governed by the Hamas movement, considered terrorist by the EU, the US and other countries, accused the Israeli Army this Tuesday (12/12/2023) of attacking a hospital in the north of the territory. Palestinian.
Israeli forces “stormed the Kamal Adwan hospital after besieging and shelling it for several days,” said ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qidreh. The soldiers “are regrouping the men, including the medical staff, in the hospital courtyard, and we fear that they will arrest or kill the medical staff,” he added.
“The hospital remains surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks, and fighting with armed groups has been reported in its vicinity for three consecutive days,” detailed the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The hospital currently welcomes “65 patients, including 12 children in the intensive care unit and six newborns in incubators,” he said.
The facility also hosts nearly “3,000 internally displaced people,” who remain “trapped in the facilities and are waiting to be evacuated, with reports of extreme shortages of water, food and electricity,” he added.
For its part, the Israeli Army has only indicated in this regard that it is rounding up men in northern Gaza in search of Hamas fighters. (afp, ap/mn,cp)
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