Israel's military siege in the last operating hospital in northern Gaza: Report
Staff and aid groups say Israeli troops surround the last two hospitals in the Northern Gaza Strip as the World Health Organization warned that the activity “extends the health system beyond the breakthrough point.”
This development is the Israeli military spokesman said on Wednesday: “We are entering a new phase with different sizes and strengths to achieve the goal of returning kidnapped soldiers and defeating terrorists. [group] Hamas.
“The forces from the 401st Brigade and the Givati Brigade began operations in the Gaza Strip in northern Canada under the command of the 162nd Division, where they identified and destroyed suspicious buildings in the area and eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists,” Colonel Avicay Adraee, IDF, wrote on X.
According to the Associated Press, Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital are one of the only surviving medical centers in northern Gaza.
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A military vehicle sailed from the Israeli border on the Israeli Gaza border toward Gaza on Tuesday, May 20. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
Israeli authorities issued an evacuation order to most parts of North Gaza on Friday, which aims to put pressure on Hamas to release more hostages.
Although Israel has not ordered the evacuation of the facility itself, both hospitals, as well as another and three primary care centers, are in the evacuation zone. Two other hospitals and four primary care centers are located within 1,000 yards of the region, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
He said.
Israeli drones have been wandering around Indonesian hospitals since Sunday.
The Israeli military said its troops were operating around the hospital and targeting Hamas infrastructure, but the troops did not enter the facility and allowed ambulances to operate.
But Israeli bulldozers removed the outer wall of the hospital, according to aid group Merc-Indonesia and an evacuated hospital staffer. Then on Tuesday, the air strikes reportedly targeted the hospital's generators, causing a fire and damaging its main power supply.
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Palestinians line up in a community kitchen in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip on Monday, May 19 for food. （AP/JEHAD ALSHRAFI）
Who said at least one staff member was killed, he said those who stayed in the hospital were desperate for water and food. The United Nations said it is working to transfer the remaining patients to other facilities.
Rami Shurafi, a board member of the hospital, told the Associated Press that nearly half a mile away, Israeli drones opened fire on the Al-Awda Hospital yard on Monday to prevent movement.
Israeli drone fired at two ambulances on Tuesday and moved three patients to Gaza when crew members tried to return to the hospital.
“Anyone who moved into the hospital in the hospital was fired. They were all kept low in the hospital,” he said.
According to Shurafi, about 47 patients, including nearly 20 children and several pregnant women, and 140 doctors and medical staff are still in the hospital.
Israel has also begun dropping food and medicine into the Gaza Strip, after sealing off 2 million Palestinians in the territory from all imports for more than 2 1/2 months.
A truck carrying humanitarian aid travels to Kerem Shalom Cross in southern Israel on Tuesday, May 20. （AP/Maya Alleruzzo）
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The United Nations said dozens of trucks have entered since Monday, but there is no aid due to delays caused by Israeli military procedures.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
