Al-Chifa hospital has become a “ death zone » where the situation is “ desperate » due to the lack of water, electricity, medicines, food and medical equipment, said Saturday evening the World Health Organization (WHO), which carried out a mission there lasting one hour Saturday November 18.
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► Hundreds of people evacuated al-Chifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, on Saturday, November 18. According to the WHO, which carried out a one-hour mission there on Saturday, the huge hospital complex still housed 25 caregivers and 291 patients on Saturday, including 32 babies in critical condition, 22 patients on dialysis and two in intensive care.
► Strikes on the UN refugee camp on Saturday reportedly left more than 80 deadincluding at least 50 in a school that houses displaced people, according to Hamas.
► A march to demand the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, starting from Tel Aviv, arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday. The families are due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
► The Hamas Ministry of Health announced late Friday that the toll from Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip had reached 12,300 dead since the start of the war on October 7, including 5,000 children. Since that date, more than 1 200 Israelis were killed after a downwardly revised balance sheet Friday November 10. The Israeli army reports 239 people held hostage by the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Times given in universal time (UT),
06:44: Fifteen dead in bombings on the south and center of the Gaza Strip
Fifteen Palestinians were killed early Sunday during Israeli aerial bombardments in the central and southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Thirteen people were killed in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while a woman and her child were killed in the town of Khan Yunis in the south of the enclave, Wafa said.
06:30: WHO develops plan to evacuate remaining patients in al-Chifa hospital in Gaza
Al-Chifa hospital has become a “ death zone » where the situation is “ desperate » due to the lack of water, electricity, medicines, food and medical equipment, said Saturday evening the World Health Organization (WHO), which carried out a mission there lasting one hour Saturday.
According to the WHO, the huge hospital complex still housed 25 caregivers and 291 patients on Saturday, including 32 babies in critical condition, 22 patients on dialysis and two in intensive care. Many of the injured suffer serious infections due to a lack of antibiotics and poor hygiene conditions, the organization reported. “ WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of remaining patients, staff and their families » to other hospitals in Gaza, the WHO added.
Hundreds of people who had taken refuge in the hospital left the premises on Saturday after receiving orders from the Israeli army, according to the director of the establishment and an AFP journalist on site. The army denied having ordered the evacuation, saying only that it had “ responded to a request » from the director of al-Chifa hospital. According to the Israeli army, which launched a raid on the hospital on Wednesday morning, the latter houses a Hamas hideout installed in particular in a network of tunnels. The Islamist movement denies it.