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The Government of the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, reported this Thursday that 13 patients died in the last few hours in Shifa hospital due to a lack of medicine, oxygen and electricity as a result of the Israeli Army’s military operation for the fourth consecutive day. .
“The ‘Israeli’ occupation army deliberately killed 13 patients in the Shifa medical complex, depriving them of medicines, solutions, electricity, refills and oxygen since occupying the hospital four days ago,” the Gaza government press office said. in a statement. declaration.
Meanwhile, the Army has today ensured that it has detained more than six hundred suspected combatants and eliminated some 140 in the combats that took place over four days inside and on the outskirts of the hospital, used for “terrorist purposes” by hundreds of militiamen who had regrouped inside of.
Gaza authorities clarify that the 13 deceased patients were in the intensive care unit, where there are another 22 patients who require urgent treatment or their lives are also in danger, while the hospital houses numerous injured people whose wounds are becoming infected and rotting. due to the lack of disinfectants.
Among the dead, four patients were connected to ICU ventilators, which stopped working because the Israeli army “cut off the electricity and oxygen to kill them”, said the Government of the enclave, where the dead have been since the start of the war. on December 7th. October they are close to 32,000.
“Doctors and nurses at the hospital were arrested, removed from their respective departments, forced to strip for searches and were denied access to patient rooms or the pharmacy,” the statement said.
The Israeli Army laid siege on Monday morning with tanks and snipers and attacked, for the fourth time since the start of the war in the Strip, the Shifa hospital in the city of Gaza, the most important in the enclave, where more than 30,000 displaced people are staying. they took refuge.
“Senior Hamas officials were detained, more than 140 terrorists were eliminated in hand-to-hand clashes and Islamic Jihad operatives surrendered,” a military statement said, indicating that Defense Force soldiers and agents from the Shin Bet intelligence service remain the search for suspects in Shifa.
The Army stated that during searches of the hospital, numerous weapons and intelligence documents were discovered that contributed to the advancement of the war.
Among the members of Islamic Jihad who surrendered, the Army cited Huasem Salama, head of intelligence and head of the Gaza Brigade’s observation team, and his brother, Wissam Salama, in charge of the Islamic group’s propaganda.
Among those detained are three senior Hamas officials in the occupied West Bank, who directed “terrorist activities in Judea and Samaria (West Bank): Omar Azida, head of the Nablus committee; Mahmud Kwasma, who “planned and financed the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in 2014”; and Hamdallah Hassan Ali, one of the main promoters of “terrorist activity” in that area in recent years.
“Fighting in the hospital area continues with significant clashes with the enemy and exchanges of fire,” the Army said.
Source: Elcomercio
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