2023-10-13 22:18:02
Israel has given Doctors Without Borders (MSF) eight hours to evacuate the Al Awda hospital in Gaza City, this humanitarian organization reported, after this morning the Army ordered the evacuation of 1.1 million Gazans from northern Gaza. the Strip to the south.
The announcement comes almost two hours after the Israeli Armed Forces gave the hospital a deadline of just two hours, as reported by the NGO on its X (formerly Twitter) account.
“Israeli forces have now delayed the demand to evacuate Al Awda hospital in the Gaza Strip until 6 a.m. Evacuation of patients remains complicated”MsF has now announced
This means a deadline of almost eight hours, still difficult to meet in conditions with a huge number of wounded from the bombings, fuel shortages and continuous air attacks even against the only roads that allow movement to the south.
“We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on healthcare in Gaza. We are trying to protect our staff and our patients.”said the NGO after receiving the first ultimatum.
The Israeli Army this morning called for the evacuation of civilians from the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, and urged them to move south, which implies the movement of more than 1 million people and suggests an operation imminent terrestrial
“The Army calls for the evacuation of all civilians in Gaza City from their homes to the south for their safety and protection, and their transfer to the area south of Wadi Gaza”reported a military statement, which specified that this warning is given in response to the intention to carry out more attacks against the Islamist group Hamas, which attacked Israel this past Saturday, starting a war that today marks its seventh day.
According to Israel, many of the military operations from the enclave are carried out from Gaza City, a place of almost 600,000 inhabitants, where civilians must now leave “for their own safety” and “where they will be able to return only when another announcement allows it.” “said a military spokesman.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza after seven days of war is extremely precarious, the hospitals are overflowing and the displaced number in the hundreds of thousands, while the ferocious Israeli bombings on the enclave do not stop and have caused serious damage to civilian infrastructure.
The dead in the Gaza Strip exceed 1,800 and the injured more than 6,600.
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