With the occupation of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital by Israeli forces, most of the staff have fled the premises. In such a situation, very few doctors and staff are left in the hospital. Meanwhile, the condition of many children admitted in the hospital has become critical. A UN team said on Sunday that 291 people were left, including 32 children, in critical condition after Israeli forces evacuated patients from Gaza’s largest hospital. He told that the children have problems like serious infection in their wounds and spinal cord injury, due to which they are unable to walk.
The World Health Organization (WHO), which is leading the operation, said it visited Shifa Hospital on Saturday morning after some 2,500 displaced people, patients and medical staff left the hospital premises. Describing Shifa hospital as a ‘death zone’, the agency said, “The patients and health workers they spoke to were worried about their safety and health and requested to leave the place.” That in the coming days more teams will attempt to reach Shifa to try to transport patients to southern Gaza. The Israeli Army alleges that Hamas extremists have set up a command center in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, which they are searching for. However, Hamas and hospital staff rejected this claim.
Israel said – patients left voluntarily
Israel believes there was a voluntary mass departure of patients from the hospital on Saturday. However, the people leaving there called it a forced migration. “We left at gunpoint,” Mahmoud Abu Auf told the AP after leaving the hospital. Tanks and snipers were everywhere inside and outside. Israeli forces detained three people. Apart from northern Gaza, dozens of people were killed in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp. Eyewitnesses believe that people have died in the Israeli attack. It led to a massive attack on the camp’s Fakhora school, said wounded survivors Ahmed Radwan and Yasin Sharif. Radwan told the AP that “the scenes were horrific. Dead bodies of women and children were on the ground. Others were shouting for help.
The walls of the hospital were seen stained with blood
Pictures obtained by the AP from local hospitals showed more than 20 bodies wrapped in blood-stained sheets. The Israeli Army had warned Jabaliya and surrounding people to leave the area in a post made in Arabic on social media. The Israeli army had said that its troops were active in the area with the aim of eliminating the extremists. “Horrific images and videos have emerged of scores of people killed and injured at another UNRWA school that shelters thousands of displaced persons,” Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on the social media platform X. Have been. (AP)
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