In a new day of attacks, the Israeli Army attacked Al-Shifa hospitalthe largest in Gaza, in what they themselves called a “ operation against Hamas “, since the military group would have installed their command centers inside and below the institution’s facilities.
“The soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) They found weapons and other terrorist infrastructure. In the last hour, we saw concrete evidence that Hamas terrorists were using Al-Shifa Hospital as a terrorist headquarters“said a senior military official to the press after the attack.
For its part, Hamas said in a statement that Israel’s claim “is nothing more than a continuation of lies and cheap propagandawith which Israel tries to justify its crime aimed at destroying the healthcare sector in Gaza”.
This situation occurs in the middle of a unprecedented humanitarian crisisin which the same patients at the center were trapped with each time fewer supplies and Without eleectricity due to lack of fuel.
Mohammed Zaqoutdirector of Gaza hospitals, said that there were Israeli tanks inside the complex and that soldiers had entered the buildings, including the emergency and surgery departmentswhich have intensive care units.
“The occupation forces They stormed the buildings“he said, and indicated that the patients were terrified. “They are screaming. It is a very scary situation. We can’t do anything for the patients except pray,” he said.
The statement of a journalist in the hospital
A journalist collaborating with the news agency AFP who was inside the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza said that dozens of Israeli soldiers, some of them hooded and shooting in the air, They ordered the Gazans refugees there to surrender.
‘All men 16 years and older, hands up and leave the buildings towards the inner courtyard to surrender“, was what the soldiers said, according to the statement. At that time, hundreds of Palestinians They moved to the hospital patio from different sectors, which included the burn servicethe maternityThe Department of surgery and even the service of dialysis.
According to the journalist’s testimony, women and children were searched by Israeli soldiers and some had to pass by a stall equipped with a reconnaissance camera. All this was supervised by tanks stationed inside the health complex, even in front of the emergency service.
Source: Ambito
