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tanks Israel They surround the biggest hospital on Tuesday Link, and US President Joe Biden pressured his ally to protect the thousands of civilians trapped in that center that Israel considers a strategic hiding place for Hamas. After days of shelling and fighting around the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city, witnesses say that tanks and armed vehicles are at the gates of the besieged complex that has become one of the centers of the war that broke out more than five weeks ago. . The United Nations believes that inside the hospital there are thousands, even more than 10 thousand people, including patients, staff and displaced people, unable to escape due to the fighting around them.
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A surgeon Doctors Without Borders (MSF) I say that The situation in the hospital is “inhumane”. “We have no electricity, no food, no water in the hospital,” the NGO said in a statement.
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The Israeli army accuses the Palestinian Islamic movement of using a network of tunnels under the hospital as a command “node”transforming patients and refugees into “human shields”, something that Hamas denies it.
The deputy minister of Health of the government of HamasYusef Abu Rish, told AFP on Monday that “seven premature babies” and “27 patients in intensive care” have died since Saturday due to a lack of electricity in that hospital
Biden urged Israel employ “less intrusive actions in relation to the hospital”. “The hospital must be protected”he insisted to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House.
An Israeli army spokesman, Peter Lerner, reiterated on Tuesday that Al Shifa was “fundamental to Hamas’ command and control capabilities”but he said his troops were on standby.
“The idea is to try to evacuate people, evacuate as many as possible,” he claimed.
“Window of legitimacy”
Israel hits the Gaza Strip without respite since the attack launched on its territory by Hamas commandos on October 7, which killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped around 240 people.
Since October 27, it has also carried out a ground operation with the aim of “annihilating” the Islamic movement, in which As of Monday, 44 Israeli soldiers had died.
In Gaza, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health estimates there are 11,240 people, including 4,630 children, those killed by Israel’s offensive in this besieged territory, without access to water, food, electricity or medicine.
The agencies of UN and international organizations talk about hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a humanitarian catastrophe.
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen said on Monday that His country still has “two or three weeks until international pressure really increases”, but that his ministry “is working to expand the window of legitimacy”.
“The fight will continue as long as necessary”Cohen added, quoted by his spokesperson.
Your Defense counterpart, Yoav Gallant, stated for his part that Hamas “lost control in Gaza” and that its fighters were “fleeing south” of the territory.
Hostage negotiation
Faced with growing international pressure, Israel agreed to establish daily pauses in its military operations around humanitarian “corridors” to allow Gazans trapped by the fighting to escape.
But the country’s leaders have insisted on several occasions that there will be no broader ceasefire until the hostages are released taken by Hamas.
Qatar is mediating negotiations on this issue.
Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, said on Monday that a possible deal could involve the release of 100 Israeli hostages. in exchange for 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained in Israeli prisons.
“We informed the mediators that we could free the hostages if we achieved a five-day truce (…) and the passage of aid to our entire population,” he stated.
In the midst of these negotiations, The Palestinian movement released a video of a young hostage who was later identified by Israel as one of its kidnapped soldiers.
“We are using all our means, both intelligence and operational, to bring the hostages home,” the Israeli military said.
The war in Gaza triggered hostilities on other fronts, such as the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.where US bombings killed eight pro-Iran fighters, a war monitoring NGO said.
In the north of West BankFive Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops in the Tulkarem sector, the director of the local hospital told AFP on Tuesday.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, around 180 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers or settlers. according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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