The Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza is witnessing clashes around it, while the Israeli occupation forces imposed a comprehensive siege on all its sides, after re-storming the hospital from the southern entrance using bulldozers during the past hours.
A journalist from the vicinity of the Shifa complex reported to Al Jazeera that the clashes around the complex had not stopped since the morning.
The source said that the area surrounding the largest medical complex in the Strip is like a military zone, and no one can reach it.
For his part, a medical source from Al-Shifa Complex told Anadolu Agency that Israeli military vehicles are imposing a comprehensive siege on the hospital from all sides, targeting everyone who moves inside or outside the hospital.
Intrusion and isolation
The Israeli occupation forces stormed the Shifa Medical Complex in the Gaza Strip from the southern entrance using bulldozers.
Sources inside the hospital confirmed to Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have isolated the various departments, and that they are targeting with snipers and drones anyone who moves between these departments. The occupation forces also blew up medicine warehouses.
Dr. Adnan Al-Barsh, Head of the Orthopedic Department at Al-Shifa Hospital, confirmed that Israeli occupation army bulldozers stormed the hospital from the southern entrance and were bulldozing the back yard.
Al-Barsh expressed fears that this would be a prelude to the entry of tanks and soldiers into the remaining sections of the Al-Shifa Complex.
For days, Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings, as well as other hospitals in the Gaza Strip, have been subjected to Israeli bombing and siege, claiming the presence of a headquarters for Palestinian resistance militants, which is repeatedly denied by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip.
Call and communications
For his part, the General Director of Gaza Strip Hospitals, Muhammad Zaqout, told Al Jazeera that they demanded that patients be transferred to Egypt, given the lack of capacity.
He indicated that some organizations are making contact to remove all patients from the Shifa Complex.
While official data showed an increase in the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war to 11,500, including 4,710 children and 3,160 women, and 29,800 injured, the Ministry of Health said yesterday, Wednesday, that it faces, for the fourth day in a row, challenges in updating the numbers of victims due to the collapse of services and communications. In northern hospitals.
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2023-11-16 11:42:29
