Nasser Hospital has been one of the few hospitals still in operation in the Gaza Strip. The situation at the hospital is described as catastrophic.
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of Israel special forces of the armed forces have raided the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Videos filmed at the hospital on Thursday show chaos, screams and dark corridors full of dust and smoke.
According to eyewitnesses, videos of the early morning raid were published on social media:
There has been fierce fighting around the hospital in recent days, the news agency AFP reports.
The Israeli armed forces called the operation “precise and limited”, and according to them, it will not interfere with the hospital's operational capabilities.
According to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, the situation in Nasser was catastrophic. Israeli soldiers forced the intensive care unit workers to leave the patients, the ministry's spokesperson said. In addition, the troops stormed, among other things, the maternity ward of the hospital.
of Israel according to a spokesman for the armed forces, they have credible intelligence that Hamas has held hostages in the hospital premises and that the bodies of the hostages may still be there.
A Hamas spokesman said Israel's claims were baseless, Qatari media al-Jazeera reports.
The Israeli Armed Forces announced on Thursday that it had captured several suspects during the operation, British broadcasting company BBC told.
Nasser's the hospital has been one of the few hospitals still in operation in the Gaza Strip. Thousands of people who had to leave their homes because of the war had sought shelter in a hospital in the area.
Israel had ordered people to evacuate the hospital by Thursday morning.
The Doctors without Borders organization said in the message service X, that the hospital was bombed in the morning, even though the Israeli armed forces had promised that the doctors and nurses could stay in the hospital.
According to the organization's employees who were there, the situation at the hospital was chaotic and people had been killed and wounded in the morning's bombings.
Israel has repeatedly raided hospitals in the Gaza Strip, claiming that Hamas uses the hospitals as its command centers. Hamas has denied the claims.
According to the news agency AFP, the Israeli armed forces stated on Thursday that Hamas would have used more than 85 percent of the area's hospitals.
According to the World Health Organization, Nasser Hospital is extremely important to Gazans. Only a small part of the hospitals in the lane are working anymore, and even then only partially.
of the UN The UNRWA aid organization for Palestinian refugees warned on Thursday of a serious financial situation if the organization does not get new donors or convince its old donors to continue its aid, Reuters news agency reports.
The director of the aid organization by Philippe Lazazrin according to the organization will be in serious problems by April at the latest.
Many countries have cut funding to UNRWA after Israel accused the organization's workers of complicity in the October attack by Hamas.
UNRWA handles most of the humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.
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