Israel says that its special forces raided the largest operating hospital in Gaza and arrested a number of suspects.
The Israeli army said that the operation conducted at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis was “accurate and limited” and claimed to have information agitation The fighters were hiding there.
Israel She also said the ruling armed group in Gaza They may have been held hostage at the medical facility, and the bodies of some of the captives may have been present at the site.
Hamas denied these accusations, calling them “lies,” and health authorities said that Israel expelled the displaced and the families of medical workers who were taking shelter in the hospital.
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Treating a patient amid chaos at Nasser Hospital. Photo: Reuters
Earlier this week, the Israeli army ordered thousands of displaced people who were sheltering at the site to leave, but informed medical staff and patients that they could stay.
The special forces raid came hours after an Israeli raid that killed a patient and injured six others in the complex, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Video footage showed doctors scrambling to move patients on stretchers through a corridor filled with smoke or dust.
The charity Doctors Without Borders said that Israel bombed the hospital in southern Gaza in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“Our medical staff had to flee the hospital, leaving the patients behind,” she said on Channel X.
The army said on Wednesday that it had opened safe passage for displaced people to leave the hospital but would allow doctors and patients to remain there.
People rest next to damaged buildings, as Palestinians arrive in Rafah after being evacuated from Nasser Hospital. Photo: Reuters
'No place is safe'
The Palestinians insist that there is no safe place in the besieged territories, as Israel continues to carry out its strikes in all areas of Gaza.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals and other civilian facilities to protect its fighters.
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Since the war began on October 7 last year when Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel, about 80% of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have been driven from their homes by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas militants are hiding in Rafah, on the southern Egyptian border, and they are also… They are thinking of launching a ground attack on the city.
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In Rafah, 1.4 million people – more than half of the area's population – are crowded into camps and apartments and shelters in the city are crowded.
A senior UN official has warned that the deteriorating situation in Gaza is the worst humanitarian crisis he has ever seen in his 50-year career.
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Gaza “the worst humanitarian crisis”
Talking to Sky News Yalda HakimMartin Griffiths said this is because “people cannot escape. They are trapped, they cannot escape Gaza.”
“I think this is the worst [crisis] In my 50 years of experience.”
Hamas killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, in its cross-border raid on Israel on October 7, and took about 250 others hostage.
In retaliatory Israeli raids, more than 28,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, were killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
