The Israeli Army denied this Saturday that it had given a one-hour deadline to the doctors, patients and displaced people who remain in the Palestinian hospital in Al Shifa, located in the north and greater Gaza, so that they abandon it, as the Gaza Ministry of Health.
“The Israeli army agreed to the request of the director of Al Shifa Hospital to allow other Gazans who were in the hospital and wanted to evacuate to do so via the safe route.”
According to the Israeli Defense Forces, the army “accorded to the request of the director of Al Shifa Hospital to allow other Gazans who were in the hospital and wanted to evacuate to do so via the safe route.”
“At no time did the Army order the evacuation of patients or medical equipment and, in fact, proposed that any request for medical evacuation be facilitated by the Army,” the military statement said.
Shortly before, the Gaza Ministry of Healthcontrolled by the political wing of Hamas, reported: “The occupation army gives doctors, patients and displaced people the possibility of evacuating Gaza’s Shifa hospital within an hour.”
The head of the Orthopedics Department, Adnan al Bursh, quoted by the Ministry, assured that the order has created a “serious state of panic and fear” inside the hospital and stressed that doctors will not leave the hospital without patients.
Besides, The general director of Health of Gaza, Munir al Bursh, denounced that Israeli troops have taken bodies from the hospital morgue, as well as the cemetery excavated within the perimeter of the medical facilities.
The Israeli Army maintains that Al Shifa hides a Hamas command center and which, therefore, is a military objective.
In recent days, he has besieged it and made several limited incursions into its facilities in which he claims to have discovered weapons and a tunnel used by the Islamist group Hamas.
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