Israel has ordered the closure of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, letting health officials move to move dozens of people who stay in the medical establishment, while deadly bombing and famine register the besieged enclave.
At least 70 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of Thursday.
The Gaza Ministry of Health described the push of Israel, which forced the hospital out of commission, a “continuation of violations and crimes” against the medical sector in the territory.
Al-Awda was the last operating hospital north of Gaza, according to health officials. The closure of the hospital came in the middle of the forced forced forced Palestinians in Gaza, the last order Thursday had an impact on a large number of people in the north and east of Gaza City.
“The Ministry of Health calls on all the parties concerned to ensure the protection of the health system in the Gaza Strip, as guaranteed by international and humanitarian laws,” the ministry said in a statement.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that 97 people, including 13 patients, were still in the hospital. The United Nations agency provides for a mission on Friday to transfer patients to another establishment.
“Due to impracticable roads, the hospital’s medical equipment cannot be moved,” said a statement.
“With the closure of Al-Awda, there is no functional hospital remaining in North Gaza-cutting a critical life buoy for people there.”
Who pleaded “for the protection and staff of the hospital and patient safety”.
Israel besiege and bombed hospitals in Gaza, killing more than 1,400 medical workers, as well as patients and displaced people who have taken refuge, since the start of the war, according to local authorities.
“ We have not seen food or flour in five days’
The closure of the Al-Awda hospital comes when the humanitarian crisis becomes more catastrophic day in Gaza, Israel continuing its suffocating blockade on the enclave.
An effort, supported by the United States and Israel, to distribute limited food supplies on specific sites managed by a dark organization, known as Gaza’s humanitarian foundation, continued to be marred by chaos on Thursday.
“We have traveled a long distance, about 10 km (6.2 miles) to take this blood -tainted box,” Palestinian resident Saher Abu Tahoon said in Tel Aviv Tribune in the center of Gaza.
“We need this box because there is no food to eat. We have not seen food or flour in five days. We went to get food for our children from a very distant place. I can’t even wear this box because I’m too tired and I’m too hungry. ”
Several explosions were heard and Israeli shots were reported near a distribution center in the center of Gaza earlier on Friday.
Reporting from Gaza City, Hani Mahmoud, Tel Aviv Tribune, said that the Palestinians who went to the newly opened aid site in the Corridor of Netzarim in the center of Gaza could not leave due to Israeli military activity in the region.
“Many people who have come to the site are trapped at the moment and unable to leave the area due to the presence of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles (and) from the current shooting,” said Mahmoud.
“They sent calls to the Red Cross to coordinate their departure from the region. It becomes very risky for them to walk alone. ”
Israel has prompted to get around and put the United Nations touch of the aid distribution process, a selfish approach that criticisms say armed with humanitarian aid on the territory.
“The problems are that insecurity continues, and frankly, they do not allow us to easily deliver humanitarian goods,” said Dujarric.
There are 600 aid trucks on the Gaza side of Karem Abu Salem Crossing (called Kerem Shalom by Israel), but Israel has prevented the world body from recovering supplies in the last three days, he added.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), said that “famine threatened the future of children” in the Palestinian enclave.
“What is urgent is a political desire to allow the UN and partners to provide large-scale assistance without obstacle or interruption,” said Lazzarini in an article on X. “Allow us to do our job.”
In the midst of disastrous humanitarian conditions, Israel maintained its relentless bombardment on Thursday, killing at least 70 Palestinians in attacks in Gaza, according to medical sources.
The Palestinian civil defense said that an Israeli strike on a residential building in the Tuffah district, in the city of Gaza, left around 30 people missing under the rubble.
“Due to the lack of heavy equipment, it is not possible to recover people who are missing under the rubble,” the civil defense said in a press release.
“Consequently, we call the international community and human rights organizations for immediate and urgent intervention to protect civilians and innocent people in the Gaza Strip.”
