More than 74 thousand injuries in the Israeli aggression on Gaza (Anatolia)

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that Israeli forces surrounded two other hospitals in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and surrounded the medical staff in them under heavy fire, while the occupation army said that it arrested 480 militants during ongoing clashes in Al-Shifa Hospital.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that one of its members was killed when Israeli tanks raided areas around Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, amid intense shelling and gunfire.

The Israeli army said that its forces began operations in the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital after “accurate intelligence information... indicated that terrorists used civilian infrastructure in terrorist activities in the Al-Amal area,” as it described it.

The Palestinian Red Crescent added - in a statement - that Israeli armored forces closed Al-Amal Hospital and carried out large-scale demolition operations in its vicinity.

"All our teams are in grave danger at the moment and in a state of complete siege," he said.

He added that the Israeli forces demanded the complete evacuation of medical staff, patients and displaced persons from the Al Amal Hospital headquarters, and fired smoke bombs into the area to force those inside to leave.

Earlier yesterday, the Red Crescent said that a displaced Palestinian was killed inside the hospital complex by an Israeli bullet.

Al-Shifa Complex

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that Israeli forces arrested dozens of patients and medical workers at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, north of the Strip.

The occupation army said earlier that it killed more than 170 militants in the invasion, which the Palestinian Ministry of Health said also caused the death of 5 patients.

Al-Shifa Hospital is one of the few healthcare facilities that is even partially functioning in northern Gaza, and like other facilities, it also houses some of the nearly two million civilians, representing more than 80% of Gaza’s population, who were displaced by the war.

Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “At the present time, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists are holed up inside the wards of Al-Shifa Hospital,” as he described it.

He added that Hamas gunmen opened fire on the soldiers from inside the hospital's emergency and maternity departments, and also fired mortar shells at the soldiers in the hospital, causing damage.

The government media office denied this "categorically." The director of the office, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said that Israeli soldiers roamed the complex with ease and interrogated the displaced, sick and wounded.

Israeli forces say that Hamas fighters are using hospitals in the Palestinian Strip as their bases. Israel published pictures and video clips to support this claim, but the movement and medical teams deny this.

Nasser Hospital

Reuters quoted residents of Khan Yunis as saying that Israeli forces also advanced and surrounded Nasser Hospital in the west of the city under the cover of heavy fire from the air and land.

In Rafah, a city located in the far south of the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border and which has become the last refuge for half of Gaza's displaced population, health officials said that an Israeli air strike on a house led to the deaths of 7 people.

The Ministry of Health said yesterday, Sunday, that 32,226 Palestinians were martyred, while 74,518 others were injured in the Israeli air and ground attack on the densely populated coastal area since October 7.

The joint mediation efforts of Qatar and Egypt, with the support of the United States, have not yet succeeded in reaching a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, releasing detainees, and providing unrestricted aid to civilians in Gaza who are facing famine.

Hamas wants any truce agreement to include an Israeli commitment to end the war and withdraw forces from Gaza. Israel rules out this, saying that it will continue fighting until Hamas is eliminated as a political and military force.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the accumulation of aid directed to Gaza as a moral violation, during a visit to the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Saturday.

Speaking in Cairo, he said that the only effective way to transport heavy goods in order to meet humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip is by land.

The United States and other countries have tried to use airdrops and sea transport to deliver aid, but UN relief officials say deliveries can only be increased by land, and accuse Israel of obstructing relief operations.

Since October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that has left tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, a humanitarian catastrophe and massive infrastructure destruction, which led to Tel Aviv being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of “genocide.”

Source: Reuters