GAZA CITY – The Israeli army reported that its troops continue to operate “at Nasser Hospital” in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip city where the forces are concentrating their operations.
Troops entered the hospital on Thursday after receiving “credible information” that hostages were being held there.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said that Israeli militias had turned the hospital “into a military barracks” and that another person had died due to lack of oxygen, bringing the number of deaths from this cause to seven. caused by power outages.
According to AFP, dozens of Israelis blocked the passage of trucks carrying aid to Gaza at the Nitzana border crossing between Israel and Egypt this morning.
One of the protesters, Nili Nauri, said it was “immoral” to send aid “to people who support Hamas” because “we are at war.”
Nasser Hospital is the second largest in the Gaza Strip after Al Shifa, which also came under attack last October.
In this context, with the Palestinian population in Rafah running out of food and shelter, Egypt, which borders Gaza, fears that an offensive in the south of the enclave will trigger an exodus of Palestinians to its territory in North Africa.
A forced displacement of the population would constitute “a violation of international humanitarian law” and increase the risk of “a regional escalation,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron said in a phone call.
However, international efforts to end the fighting ravaging the narrow Palestinian territory have been blocked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s determination to invade Rafah.
According to Gaza authorities, the death toll reached 28,985 as of yesterday since Israel launched its attack against the Islamist group Hamas on October 7 last year for invading its territory and killing 1,200 people and holding 240 hostages.
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