Gaza Civil Defense: Israel refuses to allow access to wounded in Gaza City
In a statement, spokesperson for the organisation Mahmoud Basal says that Israel refuses to coordinate with international groups such as the Red Cross in order to allow rescue crews access to “hundreds” of wounded Palestinians in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza.
“The occupation’s decision to prevent coordination is an extension of the policy of slow execution of innocent and wounded citizens under siege,” Basal says.
On Monday, Israeli forces launched a new assault on the medical complex and its surrounding area, killing at least 90 people and detaining hundreds.
Palestinians displaced from al-Shifa Hospital recount Israeli raid
Palestinians displaced from the al-Shifa Hospital, where they were sheltering in Gaza City, tell Al Jazeera they were detained for several hours and then instructed to move south.
Saleh Abu Sakran, an elderly man, said he was instructed to take off his clothes and get on his knees. “The Israelis kept the women at al-Shifa but took us to another nearby building where we stayed until the evening,” he said.
“They took our IDs and investigated us and eventually returned us back to al-Shifa. They kept some of the men. They rest of us were told to follow an Israeli tank until the roundabout – and then we were freed.”
A Palestinian woman said Israeli soldiers fired on them despite them raising white sheets. “The soldiers spoke to us in English and we didn’t understand them. I’m diabetic and I was without food or water for three days.”
Video of burned child displaced from al-Shifa fuels anger on social media
Footage of a four-year-old girl whose face was severely burned by an Israeli attack on her house in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, has sparked anger among social media users and triggered calls for help.
Saja Junaid was receiving treatment at al-Shifa Hospital when she was forced to leave with her family after the Israeli army stormed the compound on Monday, putting her life at risk.
Journalist Hani Abu Rizk, who reported the young girl’s story, said she was displaced from Gaza City to Deir el-Balah following the Israeli raid. He added that the child had not eaten in three days because her father could not find any food to give her.
Meanwhile, social media users launched the Arabic hashtag “Save Saja Junaid” to ask the UN and relief organisations to ensure and provide medical treatment.
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Medical staff recount arrests, killings at al-Shifa Hospital
Emergency surgeon Mads Gilbert, who worked at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital during previous wars, has shared in an interview with Al Jazeera the harrowing details provided by his former colleagues at the medical compound after Israel’s latest raid.
“Medical staff have been arrested and left for hours in the cold,” the Norwegian physician said. The Israeli army scanned their faces with a camera and took them for what they described as “humiliating investigations”, he added.
“Some were forced to leave the hospital and taken to unknown places. Others were displaced to the south half naked,” Gilbert said. “One doctor was shot in the chest when he followed the orders to leave the hospital and later went into surgery at al-Ahli Arab Hospital.”
Gilbert also said the Israeli army in its “repeated attacks” does not differentiate “between fighters and medical staff, patients and refugees”.
He said that as a result of Monday’s raid, al-Shifa Hospital was again nonoperational, putting at risk the lives of Palestinians in northern Gaza, where starvation, lack of water and disease are life-threatening in addition to the war.
