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15-11-2023
GAZA CITY: Israel’s attacks on Gaza hospitals “should be investigated as war crimes”, Human Rights Watch says.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says operations will “grind to a halt” if no fuel is allowed into Gaza by Wednesday.
Hospitals in northern Gaza have been forced to shut down as Israeli forces continue to attack medical facilities.
More than 11,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll from Hamas’s attacks stands at more than 1,200.
Israeli tanks surround al-Hilu Hospital in Gaza City
Media reports Israeli tanks surrounded more than 100 patients and medical staff at al-Hilu Hospital in Gaza City.
Its administrative director called for Israeli forces to provide a safe route for emergency evacuation.
“The situation is difficult in the hospital and we used rainwater for sterilization,” he said. “There is no fuel or water in the hospital, which has now turned into a maternity hospital only.”
The military says it intercepted the target near the city of Acre, providing no further details.
We will bring you more on this story as updates come in.
Street fighting in Gaza City is preventing emergency workers from responding to calls for help from people trapped under debris after Israeli bombardment, according to a UN report.
People who can no longer get out of their homes and those who need ambulances for the wounded often wait in vain, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported, citing the Palestinian Red Cross.
The emergency numbers of the Red Cross have received hundreds of calls from desperate people. There is a lack of fuel for the ambulances and fighting near hospitals is so intense rescue teams are unable to mobilize.
“Netanyahu is no longer someone we can talk to. We erased him and threw him away.”
These were the words of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month, as he stepped up the criticism of Israel amid the mounting death toll in Gaza.
Erdogan’s comments suggest he has “thrown into the deep freezer, if not ditched altogether, the rapprochement that Turkey and Israel had been pursuing”, Wolfango Piccoli, co-president at political risk advisory group Teneo, told media.
The fracture is the latest in Turkey’s often stormy but generally beneficial relationship with Israel since its establishment as a state in 1948. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
