These days the Israeli army is conducting its own ground operation in the Gaza Strip to eliminate Hamas. But because of this operation, the condition of hospitals in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated. Many hospitals also lack essential medicines to save patients.
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The Israeli army continues to attack the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army targets Hamas hideouts and intermittent counterattacks on Israel. But amid all this, the condition of hospitals in the Gaza Strip has become extremely pathetic. There are many hospitals where there is a shortage of medicines needed to keep patients alive.
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Israel has strongly denied reports of shelling of the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, but said its troops were fighting Hamas operatives near al-Shifa.
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“During the last hours, false information was spread that we were encircling and attacking al-Shifa hospital,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari told a televised briefing. These are false reports.
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The statement came hours after Palestinian officials said two newborns died in hospital and dozens of others were at risk in incubators due to a lack of electricity. The Israeli army has been shelling and bombing the Gaza Strip for the past several days to eliminate Hamas.
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Aid agencies and hospital staff have said the situation is already “catastrophic” with acute shortages of medicines and fuel. Doctors for Human Rights Israel quoted doctors from al-Shifa as saying that the hospital was surrounded and there was no way to bring in the bodies and injured people strewn outside.
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Describing the current situation, a person at the hospital told AFP that the shooting never stops. Airstrikes are also being carried out incessantly and artillery shells are being fired. There are dozens of dead bodies around the complex that no one can reach.
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Israel said rockets were still being fired from Gaza into southern Israel, where it said Hamas had killed about 1,200 people and taken more than 200 hostages last month. Palestinian officials said Friday that air and rocket attacks since October 7 have killed 11,078 Gaza residents, about 40 percent of them children.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News that his country has no plans to reoccupy Gaza. He said we don’t want to rule Gaza. We don’t want to capture him, but we want to give him and us a better future.
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The conflict has increased regional tensions, leading to mutual attacks between Israeli forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. Saudi Arabia, a meeting of Muslim and Arab nations, rejected Israel’s justification for self-defense and called for an immediate halt to military operations in Gaza.
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The war has also sparked protests around the world. At least 300,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London on Saturday and police arrested more than 120 people as they tried to stop far-right counter-protesters from attacking the rally.