PALESTINE
Mon 01 Apr 2024 7:44 am - Jerusalem Time
War on Gaza: Israel commits 6 new massacres, including 63 deaths in hospitals
The Israeli army committed 6 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 63 deaths and 94 injuries to hospitals during the past 24 hours.
According to the Ministry of Health, a number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The Ministry indicated that the toll of the aggression had risen to 32,845 deaths and 75,392 injuries since the seventh of last October.
Here are the latest developments: Two citizens were martyred, and others were injured, as a result of the Israeli bombing a vehicle in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
At dawn on Monday, the Israeli forces withdrew from Al-Shifa Medical Hospital and its surroundings, after a storming and siege that lasted two weeks, while hundreds of bodies were found inside the complex and in the surrounding area.
The Israeli forces headed south, where there was a camp where tanks and bulldozers were stationed in the area between the Sheikh Ajlin and Tal Al-Hawa neighborhoods.
The withdrawal was sudden and coincided with gunfire and the firing of tank shells towards residential buildings in the vicinity of the medical complex.
The withdrawal comes after an Israeli attack on the complex and its surroundings for two weeks, which led to the death, injury, and arrest of hundreds of Palestinians.
Israeli Army Radio said that the army killed 200, arrested 500 others, and detained about 900 for investigation during its operation in the medical complex and its surroundings.
Hundreds of bodies
Scenes from Al Jazeera showed the spread of charred bodies of deaths in the streets and roads surrounding the Shifa Medical Complex, while medical sources reported that hundreds of bodies of martyrs were found in the complex and the streets surrounding it following the withdrawal of the Israeli forces.
The sources said that the Israeli forces burned the buildings of the medical complex and caused it to be completely out of service, stressing that the extent of the destruction in the complex and surrounding buildings was very large.
Hundreds of Palestinians flocked to inspect the destruction in the complex's buildings, and some families rushed to evacuate injured and sick people who were trapped inside the hospital.
During the period of the Israeli attack, some deaths were recovered, while many bodies remained lying on the ground around the complex and residential buildings, whether in the Al-Nasr neighborhood or Al-Wahda Street, as well as in the southern beach and the western sands, areas that were besieged by the Israeli forces.
Throughout this period, the Israeli army was obstructing the arrival of relief teams and representatives of international organizations to the area to carry out humanitarian missions or evacuation operations, which led to a humanitarian and health crisis in the vicinity of the complex.
Humanitarian corridor
Hours before the withdrawal of the Israeli forces, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on Israel to open a humanitarian corridor to the complex and facilitate access to it urgently so that the organization and its partners can evacuate and rescue patients.
Ghebreyesus pointed out that 21 patients have died since the start of the siege of Al-Shifa Complex on March 18.
He said that there are 107 patients in an inappropriate building within the complex who lack medical care and the necessary supplies. Among them are 4 children and 28 patients in critical condition. Some patients have suffered from wound infections, especially in light of the scarcity of water to clean them, and there are no diapers or urine bags. .
The Director of the World Health Organization added that since Saturday, there has been only one bottle of water left for every 15 people, and infectious diseases have spread due to unsanitary conditions and water shortages.
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War on Gaza: Israel commits 6 new massacres, including 63 deaths in hospitals