We warn against strong impressions in the article and video.
NRK and Faktisk Verifiserbart have analyzed and verified several videos from the Shifa hospital, throughout the night and this morning, which show injured and lifeless children and adults in the hospital area.
A video verified by Reuters shows that several people have been killed and injured close to the main hospital in Gaza.
A large number of refugees have gathered here under the open sky in the hope that the hospital area will be safe.
Several people have been killed after the attack on al-Shifa late Thursday evening, reports AFP.
Photo: KHODER AL-ZAANOUN / AFP
Nevertheless, al-Shifa is said to have been attacked on the night of Friday, according to a video which Faktik Verifiserbart has managed to establish the location and time.
The Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza say 13 people have been killed.
This number has not been confirmed by independent sources, but the World Health Organization also confirms that the hospital has been shelled.
– They bombed the hospital just now, says doctor and surgeon Adnan Alhadlaq at the al-Shifa hospital to NRK.
An injured Palestinian child is rushed to al-Shifa hospital on Thursday 9 November.
Foto: STRINGER / Reuters
The hospital actually has capacity for 700 patients, and now they treat 2,000 patients.
More than 50,000 people are staying in and near the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, according to Adnan.
– They want us to evacuate the hospital, but how are we going to do it? he asks in deep despair.
– The patients are injured and they cannot walk.
There are also snipers on every corner, says Adnan, and one of the children’s hospitals is surrounded by Israeli tanks. Al Jazeera reported the same at 11.30am.
– We can’t see out of the window and we can’t go out of the building, says the surgeon, they are only 500 meters away.
The Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli snipers have opened fire on another hospital – Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City. That is what NTB writes.
Interviewed to sounds of shooting and banging
A few hours earlier, NRK also spoke to the assistant minister of health in Gaza, Yousef Abu al-Rish, from inside the al-Shifa hospital.
Loud explosions and repeated gunfire rang out across the line. al-Rish said he kept you as far from the windows as he could get.
– Did you hear the latest? It was so loud and clear, al-Rish told NRK late on Thursday evening.
– And I hear the sound of projectiles hitting outside the window. Fortunately, nothing came through the window.
I don’t know if you heard that?
(I did it).
They shoot here.
(What was that sound? Can you describe it to me?)
It seems they use snipers.
He then claimed that Israel directed an attack on the courtyard of the Shifa hospital and that there were casualties:
– This has become the norm. It happens every day. Now the news agency Reuters reports on the video which is supposed to show the dead and injured.
Yousef Abu al-Rish is the Assistant Minister of Health in Gaza.
Foto: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) does not answer the question from NRK whether they have targeted the al-Shifa hospital. Instead, they refer to an earlier statement from spokesperson Daniel Hagari.
There he refers to several buildings in the al-Shifa hospital complex which he claims Hamas uses as part of its warfare.
Struggling with capacity
On Thursday night, al-Jazeera correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh reported on projectiles that had hit outside the hospital, among the thousands of people who have sought refuge there.
– Believe me, no one can describe the condition in the hospital. There are 200 in the first aid department, which actually has room for 50, says al-Rish.
– We use operating theaters to accommodate all the injured. Not a square meter is empty.
Covered bodies outside al-Shifa hospital on Wednesday 8 October.
Photo: DAWOOD NEMER / AFP
He adds that the patients with common diseases can now hardly receive treatment, because they have 3-4 times as many patients as they would otherwise have capacity for.
Many hospitals out of business
Al-Rish claims that fewer than 10 open hospitals remain in all of Gaza, and that this is a third of the usual capacity.
All the children’s hospitals are closed, he says.
The shutdowns are either as a result of attacks, or because they lack fuel. Or both.
In addition, the Turkish hospital in Gaza City, where cancer patients receive treatment, will be closed.
State Turkish media says attacks on the hospital have led to major damage there.
Al-Rish believes that less than half of the hospitals in Gaza are still in operation.
On Friday, the WHO also says that 20 hospitals in Gaza are out of service, writes Reuters.
Too dangerous for the ambulances
Both residents and local journalists announced on Thursday that the street fighting in Gaza City has approached the al-Shifa hospital.
Al-Rish says it is now too dangerous for the ambulances to drive out of the hospital to rescue people injured in attacks. He adds that they lack equipment:
– If someone gets hurt now, they will bleed to death.
A convoy of ambulances was hit by an attack at al-Shifa hospital on 3 November. According to employees there, it must have happened again on 7 November.
Foto: STRINGER / Reuters
Al-Rish believes that several of the deaths that are now occurring in Gaza could have been avoided if the hospitals had been functioning and had the equipment they need.
And if the ambulance could get there.
– How does it feel to know that there are deaths that could have been avoided?
– I have to be strong in front of my employees. But when the day is over, and I go to bed, I cry.
Claims Hamas uses the hospitals as hiding places
The IDF has said several times that Hamas uses several of the hospitals as hiding places. The Israeli Defense Forces have published a number of photos and other things they believe prove the claim.
This is something including the Indonesian authorities has refuted. They pay for the operation of the Indonesian hospital.
Smoke rises from the Gaza Strip after Israeli attacks on Friday morning.
Photo: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP
– Israel says that Hamas has tunnels and hiding places under the hospitals in Gaza, and that several may be military targets. What do you say to that?
– They are liars, says al-Rish.
– Why would 50,000 people on the run hide there if the fighters are there, if the Hamas leaders are there? The media are there, several are on 24 hours a day. Where are the Hamas leaders?
– Killing our children
The IDF has not responded to the claims that they have targeted hospitals and ambulances in Gaza, but a spokesperson tells NRK that they continue to attack “military targets”.
Relatives react after recognizing a dead person outside the al-Nasr hospital in the north. The picture is from 22 October.
Photo: MAHMUD HAMS / AFP
Al-Rish, who is also a doctor, has himself lost 14 family members so far in the conflict.
– How do you see the future?
– Is there any future? They kill the future. They are killing our children.
– When this is over, people will go back to their destroyed homes. Winter is coming. There is no infrastructure, all the roads are destroyed, the mosques are destroyed, the universities are destroyed, the hospitals are destroyed, everything is destroyed. Even the bakeries are destroyed.
2023-11-10 17:17:16
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