A hundred patients were removed this Monday from the Indonesian hospital in Gaza, bombed this morning by Israel, in an operation carried out in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Hamas Ministry of Health announced.
“There are still 500 patients in the hospital and we are working with the ICRC to take them to the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes,” in the southern Gaza Strip, said the spokesman for the Islamist group’s Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidreh.
“Another hundred patients will be evacuated overnight and then distributed to different hospitals in the south,” he added.
According to the same source, the attack on the Indonesian hospital, located near Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, killed at least 12 people and left many injured.
Israeli forces have attacked several hospitals in recent weeks, arguing that Hamas militants were hiding there, although the most relevant was last week’s siege of al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip.
Israel claimed that Hamas had its main command center in the basement of that hospital and on Sunday presented evidence that supposedly supports this thesis, showing 55 meters of a fortified underground tunnel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also warned this Monday that the hospital situation in Gaza is “catastrophic”, with most hospitals out of operation.
“Now we have 1.7 million displaced people, so we have double or triple the population (in southern Gaza) using a third of the hospital beds in less than a third of the available hospitals,” he said. the executive director of the WHO Health Programme. Emergencies, Michael Ryan, in a briefing held at the UN headquarters in New York, in which he participated via videoconference from Geneva.
“Even if we had a ceasefire tomorrow morning, we would still have a big problem on our hands,” he added.
Ryan said health services in the Gaza Strip can no longer provide care for more complex medical cases, including most cancer patients and kidney dialysis patients, and will likely be overwhelmed, with around 5,500 expected births next month.
The Islamist movement Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel on October 7, leaving more than 1,200 dead and 240 hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the EU and the United States, bombed several of the group’s infrastructure in Gaza and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water. . supplies, fuel and electricity.
The UN said more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million people were displaced by the war, with most fleeing south.
Source: TSF
