‘The situation is getting dire’
The Israeli military in the past 24 hours has been ramping up its military attacks across different areas in the Gaza Strip.
The main focus was directed towards the city of Khan Younis, where Israeli fighter jets had targeted a number of residential houses, causing dozens of injuries to people who had been transported to different hospitals in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses on the ground have been also telling us that the situation is getting dire, that the Israeli forces are going on with their blowing up of residential neighbourhoods one after the other.
There is going to be much more expansion of fighting here to the southern part of the Gaza Strip in Rafah.
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Israel’s attacks on al-Shifa Hospital ‘are the actions of a rogue state’
As Israel announces the withdrawal of its forces from al-Shifa Hospital, Antony Loewenstein, the author of The Palestine Laboratory, says the dozens of bodies the Gaza Health Ministry discovered there shows just how many people were sheltering in the complex.
“Even though hospitals have been targeted extensively by the Israelis, many civilians have nowhere else to go,” he told Al Jazeera.
“Many Palestinians need intense medical care and hospitals are – well there’s nowhere safe in Gaza – but it’s somewhere to go and after Israel [first] pulled out of al-Shifa, the hope was that it would remain a safe place and clearly, it was not.”
