🚨BREAKING: Israel Ramps up Attacks on Gaza’s ‘Safe Zone’ South, Israeli Tanks Surround Al Helou Hospital in Gaza City

Dozens killed and wounded as Israel targets Khan Younis with a flurry of strikes – despite ordering civilians in northern Gaza to flee to the southern “safe zone.”

Israel’s attacks on Gaza hospitals “should be investigated as war crimes”, Human Rights Watch says.

Israeli Tanks Surround Al Helou Hospital in Gaza City

In Al Jazeera correspondent reports that Israeli tanks surrounded more than 100 patients and medical staff at Al Helou International 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 sterilisation,” he said. “There is no fuel or water in the hospital, which has now turned into a maternity hospital only.”

More than half of Gaza hospitals nonfunctional: WHO

The World Health Organization says 22 of 36 hospitals in Gaza are nonfunctional “due to lack of fuel, damage, attacks and insecurity”.

‘Misleading propaganda’: Hamas denies hospital operations

Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, has rejected Israeli claims about al-Shifa Hospital being a command post for fighters as “false and misleading propaganda”.

“The occupying forces have no evidence to prove it,” Hamad said. “We have never used civilians as human shields because it goes against our religion, morality and principles.”

Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry, said the hospital repeatedly invited international organisations to tour al-Shifa to confirm its neutrality but has not received a response.

Israel claims Hamas operates inside al-Shifa and underneath it in bunkers, however, it has released no actual evidence to support this.

🔗Source: Al Jazeera

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