At Gunpoint, Israel Expels Patients, Doctors From Al-Shifa Hospital

Thirty seven patients have died this week, including three premature babies as the hospital's ability services have collapsed

Israeli forces ordered doctors, patients and displaced people at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate the medical compound, giving them an hour to do so and forcing some to leave by gunpoint, Al-Jazeera reported on 18 November.

Israeli forces issued the demand to evacuate in “one hour” at around 9 am local time, but it was “impossible” to evacuate everyone, a doctor in Al-Shifa told Al-Jazeera.

Medical sources inside the facility said there are more than 7,000 people sheltering from Israeli bombing in the Al-Shifa complex, including 300 patients in critical condition.

It also includes “at least 35 premature babies who already for eight days now have been out of their incubators because of the lack of oxygen and the lack of electricity,” Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, said. Four babies died late on Friday and five are severely ill now, the correspondent added.

“There is no transportation means in Gaza City and the northern parts because of a lack of fuel. So people are expected to evacuate on foot. And doctors are telling us it’s impossible to evacuate with this many people on foot.” She added that doctors also did not want to abandon their patients.

“We were told to leave through al-Wehda road. Dozens of dead bodies are scattered on the road,” Omar Zaqout, the hospital’s supervisor, said. “Many homeless people who cannot walk are left out in the open.”

🔗Source: The Cradle

11/17 — On October 27, Israel presented this CGI animation of an underground mansion as proof of the "Hamas command center" under al-Shifa hospital.

11/15 — IDF PUBLISHES VIDEO FOOTAGE OF AL SHIFA HOSPITAL AFTER RAID

— Israeli army releases the long awaited 'evidence' of Hamas HQ in Al-Shifa Hospital

— Here’s a recorded conversation between a doctor working inside al-Shifa Hospital and Israeli forces just before Gaza’s largest medical complex was raided.

— Al Jazeera English: Israeli forces have been carrying out a raid on Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, after surrounding it for several days.


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