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The family of Avigail Idan, a small child whose parents were murdered in front of their children by Hamas militants at a kibbutz during the Oct. 7 assault, hoped that they would be able to celebrate her fourth birthday with her on Friday. “I find myself barely breathing through the last 24 hours,” her aunt, Tal Idan, said after the announcement of the agreement. Image An undated photo (from left) of Avigail Idan, Roy Idan, Michael Idan, Amelia Idan, and Smadar Idan. And in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians who have endured nearly seven weeks of intense airstrikes waited anxiously for the truce. Several international humanitarian organizations said the four-day cease-fire window was too tight to address the dire situation.

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☆ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for independent investigation into Al-Shifa hospitals claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Andrew Carey | David Shortell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN cannot independently verify the claim by Israel that the image is of a Hamas tunnel. The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Israel to grant independent investigators access to Gaza to probe the competing claims. “This is precisely where you need an independent international investigation, because we have different narratives,” said Türk on Thursday. The IDF on Thursday released an image of what it said were weapons recovered from inside Al-Shifa hospital. On Wednesday, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby reiterated previous statements from the White House saying the US had intelligence that Hamas was operating in Al-Shifa Hospital.

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☆ Israeli forces raid al-Shifa hospital, drawing harsh criticism from WHO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailIsraeli forces raid al-Shifa hospital, drawing harsh criticism from WHOIsraeli forces raided al-Shifa hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, with the IDF spokesperson saying the country's forces were conducting a "precise" operation against Hamas in a specified area of the hospital's complex. In response, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Israeli military incursion was "totally unacceptable." The raid comes as al-Shifa hospital director Muhammad Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera that the hospital has lost access to water, electricity and oxygen supplies.

Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, Al Jazeera Organizations: WHO, Hamas Locations: Gaza

☆ Israel-Hamas War Israeli Military Raids Gaza Hospital After Days of Siege
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( James C. Mckinley Jr. | Victoria Kim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Thousands of civilians are sheltering at the hospital, along with gravely ill patients and premature infants whose care has been interrupted. Fuel and medical supplies have dwindled as Israeli troops drew nearer in recent days. Hamas, the armed group that controls Gaza, has denied that was the case, and hospital officials have also refuted the allegation. There was no immediate information on the scope, scale or timeline of Israel’s operation inside the hospital. The Israeli military said that the goal of the raid Wednesday was not to harm civilians and that their troops were accompanied by medical teams and Arabic speakers.

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It was the first of at least four strikes involving multiple munitions on different sections of the sprawling complex between 1 a.m. and 10 a.m. Friday morning. Hours after the final blast, the Israeli military blamed unspecified Palestinian militants, saying a “misfired projectile” aimed at Israel Defense Forces troops deployed nearby had instead hit the hospital. The strikes did not cause mass casualties, but Israel is under increasing international pressure to avoid targeting hospitals. Hospital officials deny Hamas operates there and have said patients are dying for lack of food, fuel and other supplies. The evidence reviewed by The Times from Al-Shifa points more directly to strikes by Israel — whether on purpose or by accident is unclear.

Persons: Mohammed Abu Salmiya, Shifa, Israel, Israel — Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, The New York Times, The Times Locations: Israel, Gaza, Al, Ahli

☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Gaza evacuations, Al-Shifa Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

A premature Palestinian baby lies in an incubator at the maternity ward of Shifa Hospital in Gaza on October 22. Staff at the Al-Shifa hospital were fighting to keep the newborns alive after oxygen supplies ran out and they had to move the babies by hand from the neonatal unit’s incubators to a different part of the hospital. Images show several newborn babies who were taken off incubators at the hospital clustered helplessly together and placed in one bed. Ministry spokesman Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra said the complex was “out of service” after repeatedly being targeted by Israeli fire. Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians, injured or displaced by Israel’s escalating war against Hamas, have packed its wards, seeking shelter from the seemingly endless barrage of Israeli airstrikes.

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Staff at the Al-Shifa hospital were fighting to keep the newborns alive after oxygen supplies ran out and they had to move the babies by hand from the neonatal unit’s incubators to a different part of the hospital. Images show several newborn babies who were taken off incubators at the hospital clustered helplessly together and placed in one bed. Netanyahu told CNN that Israel is helping patients by establishing safe corridors on the ground and said that “100 or so” have already been evacuated from the hospital. Infantry and combat engineering forces reached the outskirts of al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, Hagari said, which is near the Al-Shifa hospital. Dispute over fuel offerThe Israeli military said it put 300 liters of fuel at the entrance to the Al-Shifa Hospital complex on Sunday, but that Hamas had blocked the hospital from receiving it.

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☆ Hamas has command center under Al-Shifa hospital, US official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Jake Tapper | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A US official with knowledge of American intelligence says Hamas has a command node under the Al-Shifa hospital, uses fuel intended for it and its fighters regularly cluster in and around Gaza’s largest hospital. The information comes after comments made Sunday by a top White House official that Hamas is using hospitals and civilian facilities. Hamas and hospital officials have denied the accusation that the hospital is being used as a command center. But Israel has insisted that patients can be evacuated from the hospital. “Regrettably, the hospital is not functioning as a hospital anymore,” it said.

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The militants, Israeli security officials say, have spent the better part of 16 years building a vast command complex under the hospital, and setting up similar bases underneath other medical facilities in the enclave. Hamas denies doing anything of the sort, and hospital officials say the facility houses nothing but the sick and injured and the medical professionals dedicated to helping them. In the estimation of most Palestinians, the obsession with Al Shifa is evidence of Israel’s willingness to target even the most helpless civilians without justification. The hospital, Israeli officials said, was spared in past Israeli operations out of concern for civilian life, but at the cost of leaving whatever may be underneath it intact. They say that the complex under Al Shifa is one of the principal Israeli targets of the war and will not be left untouched, despite the growing international outcry to spare Al Shifa and other hospitals.

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☆ Gaza's last pediatric hospital has been surrounded by Israeli tanks as hospitals across enclave come under siege, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The head of Gaza's last pediatric hospital says it has been surrounded by tanks. Israel says that Hamas operates from tunnels under Gaza's biggest hospital, which Hamas denies. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsraeli tanks have surrounded at least one hospital in Gaza amid reports of several healthcare facilities facing bombardment and thousands of patients being endangered, reports say. Mustafa al-Kahlout, who heads the Al Nasr hospital and Al-Rantisi pediatric hospital in northern Gaza, told CNN: "We are completely surrounded , there are tanks outside the hospital, and we cannot leave." AdvertisementAdvertisementInternational organizations have warned of crises at several major hospitals in the enclave, including Al-Shifa, the biggest hospital in Gaza City, as multiple hospitals report running out of power and supplies.

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☆ Fighting in Gaza City Raises Fears for Hospitals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Julian E. Barnes | Edward Wong | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

That’s why we’re slowly closing in on them,” the Israeli military spokesman, Richard Hecht, told reporters on Friday night. The situation could not be immediately confirmed, though the Israeli military has made clear that its troops are fighting in the heart of Gaza City. “If conditions were better than this, we could have saved their lives,” Dr. Abu Salmiya said. “At this point, there’s just so little we can do for the wounded we receive, only the bare minimum,” said Dr. Abu Salmiya. Dr. Abu Salmiya said international organizations were welcome to investigate the site and see if they could find any evidence of Hamas’s presence there.

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☆ Israel-Hamas War Israel Says Its Troops Are in the Heart of Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | Victoria Kim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The Shati refugee camp in Gaza City was one of the neighborhoods hit by Israeli airstrikes on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people have remained in northern Gaza despite warnings to move south. David Satterfield, U.S. special envoy for Mideast humanitarian issues, estimated on Saturday that at least 350,000 to 400,000 people remained in northern Gaza. Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam International’s policy lead for the Palestinian territories, said that her in-laws were among the many people who had abandoned their homes in Gaza City, only to return. In their case, the place where they had sought refuge, in central Gaza, received an evacuation order from the Israeli military.

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In some hospitals, patients arriving in cardiac arrest are not resuscitated, because medical staff choose to work on patients with a greater chance of survival instead. On top of all those challenges, the hospitals have become temporary orphanages, too, according to the medical workers. The medical staff have cared for some of the children until a relative can come to take them. Doctors in two hospitals in Gaza said that, with nothing to power air-conditioners, the heat has gotten bad enough that it is making patients’ wounds fester. Medical staff need their diminishing fuel stocks to light up operating rooms instead.

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