Today, Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported renewed Israeli occupation artillery shelling in the vicinity of its Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, in addition to continued firing from occupation drones.

Yesterday, Thursday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society appealed to the international community and partners in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to intervene immediately and urgently to protect Al-Amal Hospital and the Society’s building, and to protect those in them, including medical staff, the wounded and sick, and about 14,000 displaced people taking shelter in them, in accordance with international humanitarian law and the Convention. Fourth Geneva.

The association expressed its concern over the Israeli occupation forces’ repeated targeting of the association’s headquarters and Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis.

She said that the occupation targeted with artillery shelling several floors in the association’s headquarters over the past three days.

It added that the number of martyrs and wounded as a result of the direct attacks on the association’s building reached 7 displaced martyrs, including an infant no more than 5 days old, and 11 injured. In addition to that, the occupation bombed dozens of residential buildings and gatherings of citizens in front of the hospital or in its vicinity, which led to the death and injury of dozens. A number of them were displaced people at the association’s headquarters.

The association pointed out that the Israeli bombing led to the destruction of the association’s VHF communications station, which is considered the only means after the cessation of all various means of communication in Khan Yunis Governorate, which constitutes a major obstacle to the response of ambulance crews to the wounded, sick, and humanitarian cases.

It pointed out that the vicinity of the association’s Al-Amal Hospital has been witnessing violent bombardment for about two weeks, endangering the lives of the displaced, in addition to the atmosphere of terror and panic that they live in around the clock, which prompted dozens of them to flee again for fear of their lives, after they took refuge in the association’s headquarters and a hospital. Hope as a safe place.

It pointed out that the intensification of the occupation targeting the vicinity of Al Amal Hospital during the past days threatens the lives of thousands of displaced people and medical teams.

Since the start of its comprehensive aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, 2023, hospitals, health facilities and ambulances, protected in accordance with international law, have not been spared from being targeted by the Israeli occupation forces through bombing, siege, killing and arresting medical personnel.