The director of the Kamal Antoine hospital within the northern a part of the Gaza Strip complained that the medical facility was nonetheless being focused by Israeli strikes at present, which Israel denies, and known as for assist from the worldwide group “earlier than it's too late”.
“The shelling has not stopped because the night time, homes and buildings close by had been destroyed. Since this morning, the hospital has been the goal of drone bombing,” Hussam Abu Safiyya stated in an announcement, stressing that the Israeli assaults threaten “our reserves of gasoline and oxygen.”
“The scenario is extraordinarily critical and worldwide intervention is urgently wanted, earlier than it’s too late,” he underlined.
Requested by AFP, the Israeli military replied that it had no data “concerning the slightest blow towards the Kamal Antoine hospital in the course of the night time.”
And yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli armed forces made a corresponding announcement after the attraction for assist addressed once more by the director of the hospital, the place, as he said, 91 sufferers are nonetheless being handled.
“On daily basis we’re confronted with a continuing risk. The shelling continues to come back from all over the place,” Abu Safiyya insisted. “Folks should perceive that our hospital is being focused to kill and forcefully displace individuals,” he defined.
Yesterday, the director of Kamal Antoine said that he acquired an order at daybreak from the Israeli military for the speedy evacuation of the hospital, however this has not been confirmed by the Israeli authorities.
Kamal Antoan is situated within the metropolis of Beit Lahia and is one in all two hospitals which can be nonetheless partially functioning within the northern a part of the Gaza Strip, the place the Israeli military has been conducting intensive operations since October.
The civil safety of Gaza had introduced on December 6 that there had been lethal shelling across the hospital, whereas it additionally spoke of direct hearth towards it. The Israeli military then categorically denied this data.
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Supply: APE-MPE-AFP
