Qatar TV channel Al Jazeera It alleges that the Israeli army asked staff, patients and internally displaced persons to leave Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip within one hour.
Another Arab television channel, Al Hadath, had previously claimed that the Israeli army did not allow anyone to leave the hospital building and adjacent buildings. The media emphasized that among those blocked in Al-Shifa there were no militants of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, only the wounded, hospital patients and internally displaced persons.
According to Al Jazeera, anyone who tries to leave the hospital is immediately detained and the Israeli army conducts regular searches and interrogations. At the same time, those in health facilities are deprived of access to water, food and medicine.
In response, Major General Yaron Finkelman, Chief of Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statedHamas militants are in every hospital in the Gaza Strip.
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