“A direct attack” on the Al Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza has caused 13 dead and dozens injuredwhile Israeli forces are approaching the city center and demand their evacuation, reported the Communications Office of the Government of Gaza, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas. Direct sources from the World Health Organization (WHO) have confirmed that the hospital center is suffering bombings, after the direct attack.

“13 dead and dozens injured in the Israeli bombing of Al Shifa medical complex“, they specified from the Executive of the Strip, after early in the morning the Health spokesperson announced a first death, after the dissemination of videos in which They see many wounded in what is the largest hospital in Gaza, where many internally displaced people from the enclave took refuge. In turn, the Government Communications Office assured that the troops “are in the vicinity of the hospital complex in central Gaza and demand its evacuation.”

In addition, Israeli tanks are surrounding the “hospitals” children, ophthalmology and mental health Al Rantisi and Al Naser”, in Gaza City, “from all directions”. “Thousands of patients, medical staff and displaced people are trapped inside hospitals without water or food and exposed to death at any time,” said the Health spokesperson.

Israel’s excuse to attack hospitals

Health has also assured that on the night of Thursday to Friday night there was another “direct attack on the Al Rantisi Hospital, specialized for children“. When asked by Efe, a spokesperson for the Israeli Army has indicated that it is reviewing all the events. Israel assures that the military center and underground infrastructure are more importance of Hamas are found under and around Al Shifa Hospitalwhere the Army has said there is heavy fighting these days as troops push into Gaza City.

Both doctors and human rights groups have denounced the Israeli bombings around hospitals in recent weeks. Many of them have suffered material damage and damage due to the attacks, and now at least 18 of some 35 hospital centers are not operating due to a lack of fuel due to the almost total Israeli siege that restricts access to gasoline.

Last week, an Israeli attack in front of Al Shifa Hospital already killed fifteen people. “The attacks and bombings of hospitals by part of the occupation is criminal madness“, stressed this Friday the Government of Gaza, which has condemned that “health facilities were deliberately bombed and massacres were committed in them.”

“Israel is committing a crime against hospitals and medical personnel. It began by preventing the entry of fuel and medical supplies, and today it ends directly by attacking hospitals with fire and bombing, as it did at dawn with several Gaza hospitals,” declared the Minister of Health of the Palestinian National Authority, Mai al Kaila, who warned of the “great resulting catastrophe”.