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SvennoJ on 15 February 2024
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Situation at Nasser Hospital ‘unbearable’: Norwegian doctor

Humanitarian advocate and physician Mads Gilbert says according to his contacts at Nasser Hospital, hundreds of patients and medical staff have been forcibly displaced by Israeli forces.

“Altogether, 600 people were forced by the occupation soldiers to move … to one of the three buildings, which is the oldest. There is only one elevator working. They had to carry patients by hand, carrying them on their backs. And now they are crammed in the narrow corridors of this building,” Gilbert, who has previously worked in Gaza, told Al Jazeera from Oslo.

“They say that the situation in the hospital for the patients and the staff … is unbearable. There are constant attacks.” Gilbert shared a text message he received from the ground reporting “shooting and bombing everywhere” around the hospital.

“Please stop this madness, stop this war,” the message read. “This is a hospital facility, not a battlefield.”



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WHO chief says health situation in Gaza ‘beyond words’

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the health situation in Gaza has deteriorated “beyond words”. In an interview with the news outlet CNN, Ghebreyesus reiterated his call for a permanent ceasefire and said that conditions in Gaza are “hellish”.

“I reiterated our grave concern about a potential full-scale assault on Rafah, which would cause unimaginable suffering,” Ghebreyesus said in a social media post. “I repeated our call for all parties to work for peace.”

Aid distribution in Gaza’s north ‘nonexistent’: UNICEF official

Spokesperson Tess Ingram says while the agency has some access to southern Gaza to deliver aid, it is close to impossible to distribute aid in the north.

“Aid access to the north has basically been nonexistent since the beginning of this year. We haven’t received the safety assurances that we need to get into the north and provide aid there,” she told Al Jazeera. “What we’re hearing from families on the ground in the north is that hunger is catastrophic and people are resorting to non-human foods to try and survive.”

Some of the most intense fighting since October 7 has taken place in the north, where more than 1.1 million people were ordered in mid-October to evacuate and move southwards as Israeli troops were advancing their ground offensive.

Pro-Palestine protesters lay amid roses in Capitol Hill protest

Pro-Palestine activists laid down in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Thursday in a show of support for Gaza. The 13 protesters, from the group United We Dream, lay next to a sign saying “Ceasefire Now” covered in roses.



Police arrived and arrested members of the group.

Footage shows protesters blocking Golden Gate Bridge calling for protection of Rafah

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was shut down for a short period on Wednesday by pro-Palestine protesters calling on Israel to halt its military campaign in Rafah in southern Gaza. About 50 protesters unrolled banners across the bridge saying “Hands off Rafah” and “Stop arming Israel”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated plans for an assault on the city, where some 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering, waiting in fear for the start of the Israeli military’s ground offensive. “We will fight until complete victory and this includes a powerful action also in Rafah,” he wrote on X on Wednesday.

Here is the CBS news reporting, completely focused on the hostages of course.



Disgusting reporting. Rafah the place where the IDF rescued hostages in a daring raid, downplaying the deaths of Palestinians, labeling Rafah as the last stronghold of Hamas and where all the hostages supposedly are. No mention of the humanitarian crisis, the people crammed together and starving in Rafah.