Tag: gaza hospital

Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills four, wounds 17: WHO

An Israeli air strike on a Gaza hospital Sunday killed four people and wounded 17, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The strike at Al-Aqsa hospital was witnessed by a World Health Organization team sent there to assess needs and to collect incubators for the north of Gaza, Tedros said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Israel’s military denied that the hospital was damaged. “A WHO team was on a humanitarian mission at Al-Aqsa […]

Israel tanks surround Gaza’s Nasser Hospital: witnesses

Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles surrounded a hospital in Gaza’s Khan Yunis on Tuesday, witnesses said, as the Palestinian Red Crescent reported another facility was “out of service” due to military operations. Witnesses at Nasser Hospital, where thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge from the fighting, told AFP that shots were fired at the sprawling complex in the southern city, but no raid was as yet taking place. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Israeli […]

Battle rages at Gaza hospital as UN reports ‘catastrophic’ hunger

By Adel Zaanoun with Joshua Melvin in Jerusalem Fighting raged Monday in and around the besieged Gaza Strip’s largest hospital complex where Israel said its forces killed and arrested Hamas militants, as Palestinians fled by foot under heavy bombardment. The United States separately said Israel had killed the deputy leader of Hamas’s armed wing, making him the most senior militant killed inside the territory during the war. While the raid at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital […]

Israel sends troops into ‘besieged’ Gaza hospital

By Adel Zaanoun with Emmanuel Duparcq in Jerusalem Israel sent troops into a hospital in war-torn Gaza on Thursday where it said hostages may have been held, as medics warned the key medical facility was operating in “near impossible” conditions. The raid came after days of intense fighting between troops and Hamas militants around the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis — one of the largest medical sites in southern Gaza, and one of the territory’s […]

Israel forces search Gaza hospital as civilians stranded inside

By Mai Yaghi and Adel Zaanoun Israeli forces were searching building to building at Gaza’s main hospital Thursday as Hamas said the military had “destroyed” parts of the compound where concern has mounted for Palestinians trapped inside. Soldiers raided Al-Shifa since early Wednesday in the hunt for a command centre they say the militants built below the complex, a charge denied by Hamas and managers at the hospital which has become a focal point of […]

Biden urges protection of Gaza hospital as conditions worsen

By Adel Zaanoun with Sarah Benhaida in Jerusalem Hundreds of people stranded in Gaza’s biggest hospital were enduring “inhuman” conditions on Monday while heavy fighting raged around them, a doctor inside said, as US President Joe Biden urged Israel to “protect” the facility. Witnesses reported intense air strikes, with tanks and armoured vehicles just meters from the gate of Al-Shifa hospital, under which Israel argues Hamas has buried its military headquarters — a charge denied […]