After bombing the gates and surroundings, the Israeli army raided the Indonesian hospital in Gaza on Friday morning, following threats and warnings.
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Medical sources said Israeli forces stormed the medical facility about two hours before a truce in the Gaza Strip took effect, according to the Arab World News Agency.
The Palestinian news agency also reported that the Israeli army killed one wounded woman, wounded three and arrested three others during the assault.
Witnesses added that the movements first started in the vicinity of the hospital, and later these forces attempted to enter the hospital.
This came after Israel ordered the evacuation of the hospital within 4 hours yesterday morning, Thursday.
The hospital director said at the time that there were 200 injured people in the hospital and that ambulances were unable to evacuate them.
The army also bombed the doors and surroundings of the hospital, cutting off its electricity.
The director general of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, announced on Thursday that the Israeli army has requested the complete evacuation of the Indonesian hospital within 4 hours.
Al-Barsh said that limited ambulances are unable to transport around 200 injured people who are still in hospital during this record time, stressing that medical teams are forced to place more than 7 injured and sick people in one car, in the statements to the Arab World News Agency (AWP).
He also explained that the hospital evacuation process had already begun on Wednesday, but around 200 injured people remained in hospital as they needed important medical attention.
The director of the Ministry of Health stressed that the hospital is under continuous fire and highlighted the danger of medical teams moving to carry out a complete evacuation.
Al-Barsh described the situation in and around the hospital as catastrophic and extremely difficult, pointing out that there were dozens of bodies that could not be buried due to the constant shooting.
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These developments came after the Israeli army threatened, at dawn on Thursday, to storm the Indonesian hospital located in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, within hours, claiming it contained “military activities”.
He added that one of the hospital administrators received a text message from an army officer, which contained a special warning to evacuate the Indonesian hospital.
It is interesting to note that this raid occurred only an hour before the truce between Israel and Hamas came into force, reached on Wednesday, with Qatari-Egyptian-American mediation, to free prisoners in the Gaza Strip in exchange for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
The humanitarian truce began at exactly seven in the morning on Friday (05:00 GMT), with the first batch of civilian prisoners delivered from the Gaza Strip at exactly four in the evening (14:00 GMT) on Friday.