Israel announced the arrest of about 100 people in one of the main hospitals in the Gaza Strip assaulted by his troops, in a raid that increased fear for the patients and staff trapped inside the establishment.
Israeli forces have been concentrating their operation for weeks in Khan Yunis, the main city in the south of the enclave, and this week fighting was fought around the Nasser hospital, one of the last large medical centers that continues to function, although partially, in the territory.
After the assault, electricity was cut and generators were stopped, causing the death of six patients due to lack of oxygen, according to the Gaza Health Ministry controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
“Newborn babies are at risk of dying in the next few hours,” the ministry warned today. The same source assured that at least 120 patients and five medical teams are trapped without water, food or electricity in the health center.
For its part, the Israeli army indicated that its troops entered the hospital on Thursday following “credible information” that hostages captured by Hamas in the October 7 attack had been held there and that the bodies of some of them could be found in that establishment.
The Israeli armed forces said today that they had detained about 100 people at that hospital, suspected of “terrorist activity”, and that they seized weapons and recovered “medicines with the names of Israeli hostages”, reported the AFP news agency.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals militarily, something the Palestinian movement denies.
The raid on the Nasser hospital was criticized by the United Nations, but Israel insists that it did everything possible to maintain the power supply, for example bringing in an alternative generator.
The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that its staff had to flee, “leaving patients behind,” and that one employee was missing and another was detained.
The war in the Gaza Strip began when Hamas militiamen infiltrated into Israel killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on October 7, and took another 240 hostages as they fled, including twenty citizens. Argentina.
More than 100 of the captives were freed during a ceasefire in November in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Around 130 captives remain in Gaza, although a quarter of them are believed to be dead.
Israel responded to the attack with a military campaign that left at least 28,858 dead and 68,667 injured in Gaza, according to the latest balance sheet from the local Ministry of Health.
Source: Ambito
