Dozens of Palestinians have been seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the advanced, however medical help staff say sufferers in important situation stay inside.
Video footage shared with Al Jazeera confirmed dozens of displaced individuals, who had been sheltering contained in the hospital, leaving on Wednesday. A health care provider sporting inexperienced hospital scrubs walked forward of the gang, and a few carried white flags.
Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the advanced on Tuesday. In a publish shared on the social media platform X on Wednesday, the military mentioned, “Hamas continues to conduct navy actions” within the hospital, an unsubstantiated declare Israel has made about different Gaza well being amenities it has raided throughout its months-long struggle.
The Israeli navy – which used drones and loudspeakers to inform individuals to go away Nasser Hospital – mentioned it opened “a safe route” to permit civilians to exit, whereas medics and sufferers may stay inside.
Nonetheless, witnesses and medical NGO Medical doctors With out Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) mentioned these sheltering inside had been afraid to go away after stories individuals had been shot on the way in which out. The Israeli military additionally fired on individuals contained in the hospital, together with a physician and a nurse.
The state of affairs on the hospital was already important however the final 24 hours have made issues on the bottom much more “scary”, MSF’s Guillemette Thomas instructed Al Jazeera.
“The state of affairs is actually important for the sufferers and we’re fearful concerning the future,” she mentioned.
About 400 sufferers are in a important situation on the hospital, she added.
‘Very harmful’
Dr Ahmed al-Moghrabi, the pinnacle of cosmetic surgery at Nasser Hospital, recorded a message from inside the ability when Israel’s evacuation orders got here in.
“[The Israeli army] despatched a hostage with cuffed fingers into the hospital asking him to inform us that we should always evacuate. And when individuals began actually evacuating, they opened hearth and so they shot on the individuals. And so they killed the hostage [they had sent inside], as properly,” he mentioned.
Al-Moghrabi mentioned he stays “trapped in a constructing” not removed from the primary gate of the hospital. “We’re away from the tanks, solely 50 metres [164 feet], that is very harmful.”
Nasser Hospital, the most important well being facility in southern Gaza, has been underneath siege for 3 weeks. The our bodies of a number of individuals killed by Israeli sniper hearth within the hospital compound have been mendacity on the bottom for days as it’s too unsafe to achieve them.
No less than three individuals have been killed by Israeli snipers close to the ability prior to now 48 hours, based on the Palestinian well being ministry.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from the town of Rafah on Wednesday, mentioned Israeli forces have been establishing checkpoints alongside the street resulting in Nasser medical facility as they drive individuals to flee.
“The state of affairs, on an hourly foundation, is getting rather more troublesome and dire for people who find themselves trapped inside this medical facility,” he mentioned. “Some individuals [who left], uncovered to Israeli hearth, had been compelled to return again once more to the medical facility.”
Earlier, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud mentioned Israeli forces destroyed one of many important gates of the ability.
“They destroyed the northern gate of the hospital and blocked it with piles of sand and rubble. Solely the jap gate is open now,” he mentioned, additionally reporting from Rafah.
“There are tanks and armoured autos stationed in entrance of that gate. There are face-recognition cameras put in … From previous expertise, establishing face-recognition cameras and hi-tech gear means raids and mass arrests are quickly going to occur,” he added.
Israeli forces have raided Gaza’s hospitals one after the opposite because the struggle, which has killed greater than 28,000 Palestinians, started on October 7.
In simply the primary 36 hours of the struggle, Israel focused Nasser Hospital, in addition to the Indonesian Hospital and al-Quds Hospital, killing dozens of healthcare staff. By the top of November, 30 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals had been hit by Israeli rockets. Presently, solely six of Gaza’s hospitals stay practical.
