Israel bombs and orders closure of hospital in Gaza with 400 civilians

The genocidal plot perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people goes beyond the attacks and bombings that have already killed more than 45 thousand people in Gaza. Part of the terror caused also involves preventing survivors from having access to food and medicine, accentuating the psychological terror. And in this scenario with a weakened population, last Sunday (22), the Israeli authorities ordered the closure of one of the last operating hospitals in the enclave.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital, in northern Gaza, has at least 400 civilians hospitalized, including newborns in oxygen-dependent neonatal units and incubators. According to hospital directors, there is no way to transport so many people, including employees, so quickly and without having more ambulances. Furthermore, the removals would have to be carried out in the midst of bombings that are still occurring, which would increase the lack of security for people who are already weakened. To top it off, the few other hospitals that still operate and where removals were recommended are overcrowded.

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The pressure to vacate the hospital is carried out directly, with the unit being the target of bombings. The Palestinians denounce these attacks, which aim to leave the entire area near Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia devastated with the aim of making the area unoccupied up to the border with Israel, so that they can have total control of the region.

In turn, Israel continues its advance under the same justification of attacking only Hamas targets.

This Monday morning (23), the network Al Jazeera denounced the attack on the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing four people. In the locality, the majority of internally displaced people are women and children.

Papa

Pope Francis once again criticized Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip during the Sunday Angelus prayer: “With pain, I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of children machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. How much cruelty! Let us pray that at Christmas there will be a ceasefire on all fronts of war, in Ukraine, in the Holy Land, throughout the Middle East and throughout the world”, said the pontiff when extending the message to the war between Ukraine and Russia.

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In an interview with the Argentine TV channel world 21 broadcast last Thursday (19), Francisco also spoke about the conflicts, which he classified as being “more guerrilla than war-like actions”. Regarding Gaza, he lamented: “When you come across a mother with her two children who is passing by on the street because she went to get something from home and returns to the parish where she is living and they machine-gun her for no reason, that is not a war, with the normal rules of war. It’s terrible.”

*With information from international agencies