MSF calls on Israel to protect people at Nasser Hospital
“Today, Israeli Forces ordered all displaced people sheltering inside Nasser hospital, the largest in southern Gaza, to evacuate the facility. Medical staff and patients were told that they may remain in the hospital with a limit of one caretaker per patient. “People are afraid to leave the hospital because they hear reports of people being shot at. Those who wish to leave must be granted safe passage out.”
Israeli snipers kill three people at Nasser Hospital: Health Ministry
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says Israeli forces also injured 10 people inside the besieged medical complex in Khan Younis. We reported earlier that Israeli authorities had used drone speakers to urge the evacuation of the hospital, but medical teams have promised to stay put until it becomes impossible to help patients.
Israeli military chief of staff says ‘long way to go’ before war goals realised
Herzi Halevi says Israeli forces have carried out a “high-quality and powerful” campaign in Gaza but there is “still a ways to go” before the country realises its war aims. “In the past decades, there has not been an army that manoeuvred in such a built-up and dense area, high up and below the ground. The [Israeli] soldiers deal with this with great success and the military achievements are extraordinary,” Halevi said after visiting outposts near Gaza.
“Unfortunately, this also comes at a cost in casualties. The defence of the home requires the willingness to do so.” Halevi also noted that the military must “harm the [Hamas] senior leadership, kill more of the enemy’s commanders”, a goal that has thus far largely eluded Israeli forces.
Israeli army can go anywhere ‘in Lebanon and beyond’: Gallant
Israel’s Defence Minister has said that there is “a realistic possibility” that the Israeli army will have “to return the northern residents to their homes forcefully”, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He is reported to have made the comments during a visit with soldiers from an infantry brigade in northern Israel.
“This means creating a different security situation by force, and that could lead to anything. If the division presents itself on the northern border, we can reach anywhere we decide to go in Lebanon and beyond that,” he is quoted as saying.
