Published October 19,2024
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Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned two sufferers at a hospital within the territory’s north died throughout a siege by Israeli forces across the facility on Saturday, whereas Israel’s army reported its troops had been working within the space.
Since daybreak, Israeli forces had surrounded and shelled the Indonesian Hospital within the northern city of Beit Lahia, Gaza well being officers mentioned.
“Israeli tanks have completely surrounded the hospital, cut off electricity and shelled the hospital, targeting the second and third floors with artillery,” the ability’s director Marwan Sultan mentioned.
“There are serious risks to medical staff and patients.”
Later on Saturday, the well being ministry of the Hamas-run territory mentioned two sufferers within the hospital had died, blaming the Israeli army siege.
It mentioned the army operation brought about “the death of two patients inside the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, as a result of the hospital’s siege and the power outage and (lack of) medical supplies”.
The ministry didn’t present particulars in regards to the two sufferers, their sicknesses or the precise explanation for their deaths.
It additionally accused the Israeli army of imposing a siege on hospitals throughout northern Gaza since midnight.
– ‘State of nice panic’ –
In an earlier assertion, the ministry mentioned Israel had focused the higher flooring of the Indonesian Hospital, including there have been “more than 40 patients and wounded in addition to the medical staff” current.
“Heavy gunfire” in the direction of the hospital and its courtyard had sparked a “state of great panic” amongst sufferers and workers, it added.
When requested for a response to the ministry’s allegation that the 2 sufferers had died as a result of army siege, the Israeli military informed AFP that its troops had been “operating near the Indonesian Hospital”.
“The troops operating in the area have been trained for the operational activity and briefed on the importance of mitigating harm to civilians and medical infrastructure,” the army mentioned in a press release.
“It is emphasised that the hospital continues to operate without disruption and in full capacity, and there was no intentional fire directed at it.”
Israeli forces launched a brand new offensive in northern Gaza earlier this month, saying it was concentrating on Hamas fighters who had been regrouping there.
Gaza’s civil defence company mentioned an Israeli strike the evening earlier than killed 33 individuals in Jabalia, which is close to the Indonesian Hospital.
The UN humanitarian affairs company on Friday continued “to sound the alarm about the increasingly dire and dangerous situation that civilians in northern Gaza are facing. Families there are trying to survive in atrocious conditions, under heavy bombardment.”
Indonesian Hospital was additionally broken throughout Israeli shelling in October 2023, residents informed AFP on the time.
Israel has come below sturdy worldwide criticism for concentrating on hospitals in Gaza, which it has repeatedly accused of being utilized by Hamas militants for army functions.
Source: www.anews.com.tr