There is no truce or mercy in the Gaza Strip. As the Israeli army continues its advance into the enclave, completing a maneuver to encircle Gaza City, where the bulk of its battle with Hamas forces has taken place since the start of the ground operation, the The humanitarian cost paid by the civilian population has reached unprecedented proportions in the territory. In the city, more than half a million people find themselves exposed to the fire of the belligerents, to increasing deprivations and to increasingly difficult living conditions.
Inside this recess a storm of iron, fire and blood blew up on Friday, November 3. The immediate surroundings of hospitals were targeted by airstrikes. Since the start of Israeli retaliation for the Hamas attack on October 7, nearly 10,000 people have died, according to the Islamist movement.
The Israeli army shelled the area around the Indonesian Hospital, which had treated most of the victims of the previous days’ strikes on the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and fired shots near Al-Quds hospital, managed by the Palestinian Red Crescent. Israeli fighter planes also struck the entrance to Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the enclave, where thousands of displaced people gathered.
In a video filmed by a Palestinian journalist, Ismaïl Al-Ghoul, a crowd of men scream, panicked, around bodies on the ground next to an ambulance whose front has been partially destroyed. According to the Red Crescent, the convoy included five ambulances: “Four of them belonged to the Ministry of Health [administré par le Hamas] and one to the Palestinian Red Crescent. One kilometer from Al-Shifa Hospital, the lead ambulance was targeted by a missile, injuring caregivers and those injured inside the ambulance. » Shortly after, a second missile hit the Red Crescent ambulance “ when she was less than two meters from the hospital door. According to the organization, fifteen civilians were killed and sixty others injured.
“Obsessed with food and water”
“These scenes are unacceptable. Civilians, ambulances, doctors, hospitals must be protected. Always “, commented on X Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, held the United States responsible for “this barbarity, which took place while the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was once again visiting” in Israel, where he has pleaded, so far in vain, for “humanitarian breaks”. Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, said “horrified” by typing. The Israeli army took responsibility for this shot, specifying that it had targeted a “Hamas terrorist cell”. A senior American official, in an exchange with the press Friday evening, explained that approximately “a third of the Palestinian wounded”on the list of people to be evacuated from Gaza, were “fighting members of Hamas”. It is “unacceptable for Egypt, for us, for Israel”, he added.
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