The Palestinian authorities reported this Friday that a new attack carried out by the Israeli Army against the Al Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital complex in Loop and located in the northern district of Rimalhas left a high number of dead and injured.
Specifically, the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, confirmed that 13 people died and 26 were injured in the Israeli aircraft attack.
The bombings have hit the entrance to the medical center, where a ambulanceand has warned that many of the injured are in “critical” state, according to information collected by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
The Ministry denounced that, despite the fact that they had notified the Red Crescent and the international community of their intention to take wounded to the south for subsequent transfer to Egypt“the occupation forces committed this crime.”
Thus, he has denounced a “new massacre” against civilians in the area and has detailed that among the victims are patients, relatives, paramedics and health workers, as well as displaced people who sought refuge in the hospital after losing their homes.
The attack comes shortly after the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf al Qudra, announce the transfer to the south of the Strip of those wounded in critical condition who need to be treated in Egypt.
The Israeli Army, for its part, has said it is analyzing this information, although previously the Israeli Army spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, has insisted that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “it uses the population in a cynical way” local and has made reference to a recording that reveals an alleged conversation between a health worker and an Israeli soldier in which he suggests that “Hamas has fuel tanks that it steals from Al Shifa Hospital.”
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“While Hamas warns that hospital fuel is about to run out, it steals fuel from patients to use for terrorist purposes. “We will continue to show the world the actions of Hamas and how it uses the population as ‘human shields’,” has argued.
For his part, the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai al Qilahas warned of “humanitarian disaster” which could involve a blackout of the main power generators in hospitals like Al Shifa and has asserted that the secondary generators only allow three sections of the medical complex to operate for just a few hours. In addition, he has clarified that 16 of the 35 hospitals have stopped operating due to Israeli bombings and lack of fuel.