The Hamas Ministry of Health announced that an Israeli strike on Friday targeted an ambulance at the entrance to a hospital in Gaza City, killing 15 people and wounding 60, after Israel confirmed that the vehicle had been targeted, saying that a “Hamas terrorist cell” was using it.
A previous toll was that 13 people were killed and 26 others were injured.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra confirmed that “Israel deliberately bombed ambulances in front of Al-Shifa Medical Complex to prevent the injured from being transported to Egypt to receive treatment.”
He pointed out that the targeted ambulance was carrying a number of wounded people to receive treatment in Egypt.
After the strike that occurred at the gate of Al-Shifa Hospital, where a large number of displaced people took refuge, an Agence France-Presse correspondent reported the presence of a large number of dead and wounded near the damaged ambulance.
Video clips filmed by Agence France-Presse showed civilians carrying wounded and bloodied bodies, while others were lying on the ground as a result of the intensity of the bombing that targeted vehicles parked on the side of the road.
The Israeli army confirmed the strike, stressing that the targeted ambulance was being used by a “Hamas terrorist cell.”
WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “deeply shocked.”
He added on the X platform, “We say it again: Patients, caregivers, institutions, and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always.”
The Israeli army: We targeted an ambulance “used by Hamas”
The Israeli army confirmed on Friday that it had targeted an ambulance at the entrance to Al-Shifa Al-Akbar Hospital, in Gaza City, saying it was “being used by a terrorist cell affiliated with Hamas.”
The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in the Palestinian Territories, Lynn Hastings, expressed her “shock” that the bombing targeted “patients who were scheduled to be evacuated to safety.”
Since Wednesday, dozens of wounded Palestinians have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to heavy Israeli bombardment since the attack launched by Hamas on October 7.
On Friday, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced that “a medical examination was conducted on all cases, and they were diagnosed accurately,” noting that their number reached “17 infected people, while 28 infected people were expected to arrive, as a result of the events related to the transfer of infected people on the other side of the Rafah crossing.” “.
The Ministry of Health in the Strip says that 16 out of a total of 35 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are out of service, either because they were bombed or because they lack fuel to operate their generators.
According to the World Health Organization, the bed occupancy rate in Al-Shifa Hospital is currently 164 percent.
The continuous Israeli bombing led to the death of more than 9,200 people, including 3,826 children, according to the latest toll provided by the Hamas Ministry of Health.
The Gaza Strip’s population of 2.4 million people is living in a catastrophic humanitarian situation under the violent bombardment carried out by Israel, which vowed to “eliminate” Hamas after the attacks it carried out that killed nearly 1,400 people. The army said that most of them were civilians, the majority of whom died on the first day of the attacks.
2023-11-03 21:14:20
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