The Israeli occupation forces warned the Jerusalem Hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza to evacuate, giving it until 4 pm today, Saturday.

The association said in a statement that its Al-Quds Hospital provides life-saving services to a large number of sick and wounded Palestinians, including critical cases in the intensive care unit and children in incubators, in addition to hundreds of civilians who have taken refuge in the hospital as a safe haven.

The association added that, accordingly, the association cannot evacuate the hospital, and it is obligated to do so in accordance with its humanitarian mandate to continue providing services to the sick and wounded, at a time when tens of thousands of Palestinians also refuse to leave their homes and shelters in schools in the northern Gaza Strip, and they also need the health services it provides. The association in the aforementioned hospital, and ambulance and emergency services.

The Red Crescent Society called on world leaders, the international community, the United Nations system, and the International Movement of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to intervene to stop and cancel the Israeli decision, and to ensure the full protection and safety of the Society’s facilities, teams and missions in accordance with international law and the Geneva Conventions.