Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City (French)
“Anyone who moves gets stabbed, whether inside or outside Al-Shifa.” With these words, an eyewitness described what was happening inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza, after the Israeli occupation army besieged the place and carried out a military operation, in the early hours of Monday morning, so that the hospital witnessed the second operation. Military forces since they stormed it for the first time on November 16 and besieged it for at least a week.
People are still inside the hospital.
The situation is terrifying
. There is a fire in one of the buildings as a result of the bombing.
The soldiers inside the hospital.
Al-Shifa Square is full of martyrs
. Anyone who moves will be stabbed - whether inside or outside Al-Shifa.
They were telling the displaced people inside Al-Shifa on loudspeakers that they would evacuate them.
I don't know how they leave them when they kill them every time they move.
— Ezz lulu 𓂆 (@EzzLulu) March 18, 2024
Palestinian activists, on social media platforms and eyewitnesses from the scene, shared videos showing the extent of the danger they are in, amid the ongoing bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital, confirming the deaths and injuries among the civilians who were taking shelter in Al-Shifa Complex.
Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif also confirmed through his account on the “X” platform that the situation is very difficult in the vicinity of the Shifa complex, and said that the Israeli raids have not stopped, while the displaced people are trying to leave the complex to head towards the south, as the Israeli occupation army asked them to do.
The latest developments and situations around the Shifa Medical Complex #Continuous_Coverage pic.twitter.com/KIcPFBx1Nd
- Anas Al-Sharif Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) March 18, 2024
Palestinian photographer Abboud Al-Sayyed published a video documenting the first moments of targeting and besieging Al-Shifa Hospital by the Israeli occupation army during the pre-dawn hours of Monday, and they forced those inside it to leave and head towards the south.
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One of those inside the hospital confirmed in a phone call made by photographer Abboud Al-Sayed that the situation was very difficult inside the hospital after the Israeli occupation forces entered it.
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The videos circulating from Al-Shifa Hospital sparked the anger of social media users at the global and Arab levels, stressing that the Israeli army always seeks to target hospitals. “The enemy does not stop attacking medical facilities, and it tries every time to compensate for its military failure by attacking civilian facilities and objects.”
A repeated crime..
The Nazi Zionist army returns to storming Al-Shifa Medical Complex amid heavy gunfire and reports of a fire in the specialized surgery department in the complex..
The criminal enemy does not stop attacking medical facilities, and he tries every time to compensate for his military failure by attacking civilian facilities and objects.. pic.twitter.com/oLWzfHg6zd
- Adham Abu Selmiya 🇵🇸 Adham Abu Selmiya (@adham922) March 18, 2024
Some Blue Space Facebook activists linked the second attack on Al-Shifa Medical Complex to a video published by the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - showing the tracking and assassination of Israeli commander Yitzhar Hoffman, the senior officer responsible for the siege and storming of Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. At the beginning of the war, and one of the activists says, “The occupation returns with its defeated army today to besiege Al-Shifa Hospital to kill civilians and patients, as if it wants to avenge its leader.”
While others asked sarcastically about the reason for storming the hospital, which contains innocent people, as one of the activists said, “Did they forget the laptop charger that they fabricated the story of last time and said showed Hamas leaders, or did they return to look for updates on the doctors’ shift schedule after they kidnapped and killed a number of them?” "
What new thing happened in Al-Shifa Complex so that the Zionist criminals could break into it again and carry out a massacre there...
Did they forget the laptop charger that they fabricated the story of last time and said it showed Hamas leadership, or did they return to look for updates on the doctors’ shift schedule after they kidnapped and killed a number of them... There was
nothing new. Something but... pic.twitter.com/LODoMgvASn
- Zakaria Al-Sharabi (@zakaria_sharabi) March 18, 2024
On Monday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza appealed, in a statement on its Facebook page, to all UN institutions to stop the ongoing Israeli massacre against the sick, wounded, displaced, and medical staff inside the Shifa Medical Complex.
On the other hand, the occupation army said that joint forces from the army and Shin Bet were continuing a focused military operation at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, and that the operation at the Shifa Medical Complex came after receiving intelligence information indicating the presence of Hamas officials there.
#Urgent: At this hour, the IDF forces are carrying out a surprise campaign in the #Al-Shifa Medical Hospital after receiving intelligence information about the presence of Hamas officials in the area who are using the hospital to manage and carry out terrorist acts.
⭕️The forces operating in the region have been pre-qualified, trained and instructed on the importance of not being harmed… pic.twitter.com/ZMQG2o5Vs5
- Avichay Adraee (@AvichaiAdraee) March 18, 2024
The occupation army stormed the Al-Shifa Complex for the first time last November, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded. It also arrested a number of medical staff, patients, and displaced persons, stole a number of bodies from inside the hospital, and exhumed some graves in its courtyards.
Source: Al Jazeera + social networking sites