GAZA/JERUSALEM — The first batch of premature babies evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital were taken to Egypt for treatment on Monday, while Palestinian health authorities said people were killed inside another hospital besieged by Israeli tanks.
More than twenty babies are expected to cross, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent and Egypt’s Al Qahera TV.
The newborn was at Al Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, where several newborns have died amid a collapse in medical services caused in part by power outages as oil runs out.
Israeli forces seized Al Shifa last week to find what they say is a network of Hamas tunnels built beneath it.
Hundreds of patients, medical staff and evacuees evacuated Al Shifa over the weekend, with doctors saying they had been removed by the army and Israel saying the evacuation was voluntary.
Live footage broadcast by Al Qahera showed medical staff carefully lifting the tiny babies from the ambulance and placing them in a mobile incubator, which was then wheeled across the car park towards another ambulance.
The first batch of premature babies evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital were brought to Egypt for treatment on Monday. AFP via Getty Images
The babies were taken on Sunday to a hospital in Rafah, on the southern border of Hamas-ruled Gaza, so that their condition could be stabilized before being transferred to Egypt.
In another hospital, which is funded by Indonesia, Gaza’s health ministry said at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by firing into a compound surrounded by Israeli tanks.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the situation at the hospital where health officials said 700 patients and staff were attacked by Israeli forces.
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Palestinian news agency WAFA said a facility in the northeastern Gaza city of Beit Lahia had been hit by artillery fire.
Palestinian health officials said there was a rush to move civilians out of harm’s way.
Hospital staff denied that there were armed terrorists on the premises.
Israel says its troops in Gaza are attacking the “infrastructure of terrorism” and accuses Hamas of waging war behind human shields, including in hospitals. Islamist groups deny this.
More than two dozen babies are expected to cross into Egypt. AFP via Getty Images The newborn was at Al Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, where several newborns have died amid a collapse in medical services caused in part by power outages as oil runs out. AFP via Getty Images
“We got information earlier that tanks are surrounding the Indonesian Hospital. Unfortunately…, communication there is almost cut off,” Nahed Abu Taaema, director of Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, told Reuters.
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“We are very concerned about the plight of our colleagues and the plight of those injured and patients and people (refugees) who may still be (taking shelter) there. No ambulance can reach them, and we fear that the injured will die,” said Abu Taeema.
Indonesia’s foreign ministry said it had lost contact with three Indonesian volunteers at the hospital who were part of a group that set up the facility in 2016 with funding from Jakarta.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi condemned what he called Israel’s “attack” on the hospital, saying it was a clear violation of international humanitarian law, and urged countries close to Israel to stop the violence.
Like all other health facilities in northern Gaza, Hospital Indonesia has largely ceased operations but is still sheltering patients, staff and displaced residents.
Israel has ordered a full evacuation to the north, but thousands of civilians remain, many seeking shelter in hospitals. Fuel and medicine have run out across the region under Israel’s six-week siege.
In the south, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans fleeing the enclave’s north have taken refuge, at least 14 Palestinians were killed in two Israeli attacks on homes in Rafah, according to Gaza health authorities. There was no immediate Israeli comment on the incident.
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