Israeli forces storm Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza
Israeli soldiers have raided the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya after medical staff and dozens of people, including critically ill patients, were forced to flee the facility.
Quoting witnesses, the Palestinian news agency Wafa said about 55 people, including a child in intensive care, were forced to leave the hospital after nearly 10 days without access to food or water.
The forced evacuation was carried out in coordination with international organisations, Wafa said, adding that it occurred during fears of incoming Israeli air strikes.
Witnesses said there are concerns Israeli forces may destroy the hospital, which has been targeted multiple times throughout the war, despite serving as one of the last functioning medical centres in northern Gaza.
Call for UN peacekeepers in Gaza to halt Israel’s starvation policy
UN legal experts have urged the General Assembly to invoke a 1950 UN resolution to deploy a peacekeeping force to Gaza to put an end to Israel’s “starvation and genocide”.
Calling the current situation “the most horrific” phase of the Gaza crisis, the experts urged the UN General Assembly to authorise peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian aid trucks under the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism.
Uniting for Peace – a resolution passed during the Korean War by the UN General Assembly – was designed to circumvent any Soviet veto that would have blocked the Security Council’s efforts to defend South Korea from North Korean aggression.
“Member states have a legal obligation and a moral imperative to stop starvation and genocide in Gaza,” the UN experts said.
