Israeli army denies giving ultimatum to evacuate Al Shifa hospital

The Israeli Army today denied having given a one-hour deadline to doctors, patients and displaced people who remain in the Palestinian hospital in Al-Shifalocated in the north and the largest of Linkfor them to abandon it, as denounced by the Gaza Ministry of Health.

According to Israeli Defense Forcesthe army “agreed with the request of the director of Al-Shifa Hospital to allow other inhabitants of Link who were in the hospital and wanted to evacuate, did so via the safe route”.

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“At no time did the Army order the evacuation of patients or medical equipment and, in fact, proposed that any request for medical evacuation be facilitated by the Army“, says the military statement.

Shortly before, the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by the political arm of the Hamasreported: “The occupying army gives doctors, patients and displaced people the possibility of evacuating the Shifa hospital in Gaza within an hour”, guaranteed the ministry, controlled by the political arm of Hamas, without giving further details.

The head of the Department of Orthopedics, Adnan al-Burshcited by the Ministry, guaranteed that the order created a “severe state of panic and fear”inside the hospital center and stressed that doctors will not leave the hospital without patients.

On the other hand, the director general of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh He reported that Israeli troops removed bodies from the hospital’s morgue, as well as from the cemetery excavated on the perimeter of the medical facilities.

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He Israeli army Keep it Al-Shifa it hides a Hamas command center and is therefore a military objective.

In recent days, he has besieged it and made several limited raids on its facilities, in which he claims to have discovered weapons and a tunnel used by the Islamist group Hamas.

Source: Elcomercio

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