WHO voices concern over fate of Gaza hospital chief
The World Health Organization on Friday voiced concern over the fate of the head of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, whom Israeli forces detained over the facility’s alleged use by Hamas.
The World Health Organization on Friday voiced concern over the fate of the head of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, whom Israeli forces detained over the facility’s alleged use by Hamas.
A doctor at Gaza’s largest hospital Al-Shifa told AFP that the facility’s director and several other medical personnel were arrested by Israeli forces on 23 November.
Palestinian medics evacuated 31 premature babies from Gaza City’s war-torn Al-Shifa hospital Sunday in a high-risk operation, the UN said, pledging to also move patients and staff who remain there.
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli army had deployed bulldozers at the Al-Shifa hospital, which Israel has said sits above a Hamas command centre.
Israeli forces said on Wednesday that they were carrying out an operation in Gaza’s largest hospital, targeting a suspected Hamas command centre located below thousands of ailing and sheltering civilians.
Staff at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital is in a critical battle to sustain newborns’ lives amidst ongoing Israel- Hamas clashes.
Tragically, six premature babies and nine intensive care patients have succumbed to oxygen deprivation due to fuel depletion affecting the hospital’s generator. Currently, over 60 patients are in intensive care, with 30 infants in the premature ward and over 500 patients in the dialysis department.
Hundreds of patients were trapped and thousands of people sought shelter around Gaza’s largest hospital on Monday, as Israeli troops and Hamas fighters battled near the compound.
Palestinians said Friday a deadly strike hit Gaza’s largest hospital compound as heavy fighting between Hamas and Israel has sent tens of thousands of civilians fleeing their homes.