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☆ Hamas Hounds Israeli Forces in Main Gaza Cities
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

After conducting partial pullouts from Gaza City in the past few weeks that enabled some residents to return and pick through the rubble, Israeli forces have been mounting incursions. The Israeli military said it killed seven Hamas gunmen in northern Gaza and seized weaponry. "Gaza City is being wiped out," one resident who asked not to be named told Reuters. In Khan Younis, overnight Israeli shelling killed three Palestinians, medics said. Munir Al-Bursh, director of the Gaza health ministry, said dozens of decomposing bodies were recovered from northern areas evacuated by Israeli forces.

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☆ Hundreds of Patients Evacuate Gaza’s Largest Hospital as Israel Tightens Grip
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hundreds of patients and medical staff began evacuating the besieged Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday, as the Israeli military tightens its control of the medical complex, which it accuses Hamas of using as a military command center. On Saturday morning, at least 450 patients began walking from the hospital toward the southern part of the enclave, the director general of Gaza’s health ministry, Munir al-Bursh, told the Al Jazeera television channel. Patients were pushed in wheelchairs and on gurneys, and some hobbled on crutches, according to witnesses speaking to the channel.

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Israeli troops on Wednesday entered Gaza's largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility. Officials from Israel and Gaza presented different accounts of what was happening at Al Shifa Hospital. Hamas and Gaza health officials deny militants operate in Al Shifa — a hospital that employs some 1,500 people and has more than 500 beds, according to the Palestinian news agency. Throughout days of fighting in the surrounding streets, there has been no report of militants firing from inside Al Shifa. The AP could not independently verify the Israeli claims that the weapons were found inside the hospital.

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[1/6] A satellite image shows Al-Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza November 11, 2023. Israel has said that Hamas has a command centre underneath Al Shifa and uses the hospital and tunnels beneath it to conceal military operations and to hold hostages. Hamas said on Wednesday that U.S. announcement had effectively given a "green light" for Israel to raid the hospital. Israeli forces have waged fierce street battles against Hamas fighters over the past 10 days before advancing into the centre of Gaza City and surrounding Al Shifa. "We hold the occupation forces fully responsible for the lives of the medical staff, patients and displaced people in Al Shifa," Alkaila said in a statement.

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Two and a half weeks after sending tanks and ground troops into northern Gaza, Israeli forces entered a hospital early Wednesday that they claim Hamas operates out of. The Israeli army claims the militant group uses hospitals as cover for its fighters, and has set up its main command center in and beneath Shifa Hospital, the largest in the besieged territory. Both Hamas and Shifa Hospital staff deny the Israeli allegations. Both Hamas and Shifa Hospital staff deny the Israeli allegations. ISRAEL SAYS IT'S CARRYING OUT A ‘PRECISE AND TARGETED OPERATION’ INSIDE GAZA'S SHIFA HOSPITALJERUSALEM — The Israeli military says its forces have entered Gaza’s Shifa hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff.

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Hamas has repeatedly denied that its fighters hide under hospitals, as have Gazan health officials and hospital directors. Zarquot said “the tunnel they claim to be a Hamas tunnel is actually an electrical wire assembly point. The World Health Organization has recorded at least 137 attacks on health facilities in Gaza, which it said resulted in 521 deaths and 686 injuries. Intense hostilities surrounding several hospitals in northern Gaza are preventing safe access for health staff, the injured, and other patients” the statement reads. Israel has alleged a Hamas center is hidden in the basement there, a claim which the hospital staff and Hamas have denied.

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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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☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Gaza evacuations, hospital crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Heather Chen | Andrew Raine | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Babies at Al-Shifa hospital were moved to a different part of the complex overnight after the neonatal unit ran out of oxygen, a senior health official in Gaza tells CNN. The oxygen in the neonatal unit had earlier run out after a generator was damaged due to a nearby strike, Al Bursh added, which led to the deaths of three babies since Friday night. Staff say they are under siege from Israeli forces and unable to leave the hospital, though an Israeli military spokesperson has denied that. At a briefing Saturday evening, Daniel Hagari said hospital staff had requested assistance to move the babies out of Al Shifa altogether, to a safer hospital. Al-Shifa is the largest hospital in Gaza.

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☆ Three babies die as Israel besieges Gaza’s largest hospital, health officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Jomana Karadsheh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In a separate statement, the Israeli army told CNN, it would coordinate with anyone who wants to leave safely. Ismail Zanoun/AFP/Getty ImagesStaff and patients trappedAl-Bursh said Al-Shifa Hospital was under “complete siege” with staff and patients unable to evacuate. He told CNN there were more than 100 bodies wrapped in blankets on the ground within the hospital complex. Freelance journalist Mustafa Sarsour, who is based at the hospital, told CNN the conditions inside are terrible. Humanitarian agencies have been sounding the alarm about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital.

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☆ Gaza doctors say hospitals are failing. US medical groups are scrambling to help
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

A Palestinian child receives treatment at Nasser Medical Center after a strike in Khan Younis, Gaza, on November 7. FAJR Scientific’s goal is to raise enough money to fill five 40-foot containers with medical supplies, surgical tools and sterile instruments, and ship them to Gaza, Nasser says. The group has led several surgical missions to Gaza and trained nearly 100 Palestinian medical workers on the ground, Nasser says. In August, they provided more than $4 million in medical supplies to hospitals across the territory. “The whole world turned their back on the people of Gaza,” Nasser said.

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