The government media office in the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli occupation army began implementing its threat against hospitals in the besieged Strip, explaining that all Israeli raids - in recent hours - targeted the vicinity of hospitals.

The media office refuted the occupation's claims regarding Gaza's hospitals, stressing that they only provide medical services, and expressing its readiness to receive a UN committee to verify the conditions of hospitals.

The same source said that the occupation relied on forgery and broadcast fabricated images to promote its claims about Gaza’s hospitals.

He added, "For 3 days, the occupation has been preventing us from removing the wounded from the Gaza Strip," noting that the Israeli forces are pursuing a policy of siege and starvation with the Gaza Strip.

The office said, "We place the responsibility of protecting hospitals, especially Al-Shifa Hospital, on international bodies, including the United Nations."

Israeli violations against the health sector in Gaza caused the death of more than 150 health personnel, the destruction of 27 ambulances, in addition to 16 hospitals and 32 primary health care centers being out of service.

Israel also constantly promotes and claims that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) operates infrastructure and tunnels under hospitals.

In its response to these accusations, the Israeli association Physicians for Human Rights said that even if this information is true, “this does not justify the bombing of thousands of innocent patients and displaced people in hospitals.”

On the other hand, dozens of doctors in Israel signed a petition in which they called on the security services and the army to bomb hospitals in Gaza. They said that anyone who confuses hospitals with terrorism must understand that hospitals are not a safe place for him, and terrorism must be fought everywhere and in every way, they said.

Source: Al Jazeera