Israel Military Raids Nasser Hospital in Southern Gaza
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Israeli forces raided the largest functioning hospital in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing one person and wounding eight inside the hospital complex. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later confirmed the raid, stating it was “precise and limited” and based on intelligence that Hamas militants may have kept Israeli hostages there. They also accused Hamas of using hospital and civilian properties to shield their fighters.
Nasser hospital, located in the central town of Khan Younis area, was first hit by tank fire overnight, and about an hour later, Israeli ground troops raided the premises, forcing patients and medical staff taking shelter in the hospital to flee.
A doctor in the hospital’s emergency department, Haitham Ahmad, informed colleagues in the UK, “We’re living through fear and anxiety amid attempts to evacuate the people sheltering in the hospital. Many civilians have been shot by snipers, most of them within the hospital parameters. We’re panicking. We woke up today to loud airstrikes and explosions to the north. It’s terrifying. We’re running on little food, and medicines are limited. We have patients in the ICU with no chance of survival if we are forced to flee.”
The IDF’s spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, however, stated that one objective was to ensure the hospital could continue treating patients and that “they communicated this in a number of conversations they had with the hospital staff”. He added that there was no obligation to evacuate.
According to sources, the hospital “would run out of fuel the next day, endangering the lives of the six patients in intensive care.”
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