From the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza – France Press
“The bombing is crazy,” with these words the director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Munir Al-Barsh, described the Israeli raids on Al-Shifa hospital in the western Gaza Strip on Friday evening.
Ashraf Al-Qudra, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, said in statements published by the Palestine Information Center that more than 100 bodies were thrown to the ground in front of the Al-Shifa medical complex in the Gaza Strip.
He also said: “Israel bombed the courtyards of Al-Shifa hospital and its surroundings.”
Al-Qudra added that ambulances could not move due to this “crazy bombing”.
Violent raids… and phosphorus bombs
For its part, Gaza’s Interior Ministry said Israel was launching a series of violent raids in the vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital and the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, stressing that these raids included “the throwing of bombs to phosphorus. “
Israel also bombed the gate of the Shifa Medical Complex, Palestinian television reported.
Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath correspondent reported a complete power outage in the Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza.
Television reported Israeli raids and artillery shelling near Al-Nasr and Al-Ayoun hospital in Gaza city.
All patients will die
Today, the director of the Al-Shifa medical complex, Muhammad Abu Salamiya, expressed his fears about the Israeli bombing of the hospital, saying: “We fear that the army will bomb the hospital and destroy it over our heads.”
Palestinian media quoted Abu Salamiya as saying that fuel supplies would run out tomorrow, warning that “ten minutes after the power cut, all artificial respiration patients will die.”
He added: “We have exhausted every drop of fuel in the Gaza Strip, and this is a warning that I send to the world… The international community has not provided us with a glass of water or a liter of fuel, and we are in a real crisis.”
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Israel has bombed Gaza by air, sea and land since Hamas militants breached the Gaza Strip’s border fence on October 7 and carried out an attack that Israel says killed 1,200 people – according to a revised toll – and arrested around 240 others.
Palestinian officials say that more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its military campaign, and that hospitals in Gaza are facing difficulties in the form of running out of medical supplies, clean water and fuel needed to operate electricity generators.