Gaza health officials said Israeli shelling Thursday hit the main hospital in southern Gaza killing one person and wounding several others The attack o
Gaza health officials said Israeli shelling Thursday hit the main hospital in southern Gaza, killing one person and wounding several others.
The attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis followed Israeli military orders to evacuate the site. Israel said it opened an evacuation corridor Wednesday, and several thousand people who had been sheltering in the hospital left the area.
The Hamas-run health ministry said last week that Israeli sniper fire in the area had prevented people from leaving, while medics warned the situation at the hospital was not safe.
Doctors Without Borders condemned the evacuation order and said its staff at the hospital were treating patients „amid near impossible conditions.“
„People have been forced into an impossible situation: stay at Nasser Hospital against the Israeli military’s orders and become a potential target, or exit the compound into an apocalyptic landscape where bombings and evacuation orders are a part of daily life,“ said Lisa Macheiner, Doctors Without Borders project coordinator in Gaza. „Hospitals should be considered as safe places and shouldn’t even be evacuated in the first place.“
Children rest outside, as Palestinians arrive in Rafah after they were evacuated from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis due to the Israeli ground operation, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb.
