Senin, 20 November 2023

Israel-Hamas war live: 200 people evacuated from Indonesian hospital in Gaza, says health ministry - The Guardian

Two hundred patients have been evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza on Monday with the help of the Red Cross, Gaza’s health ministry has said.

The Gaza health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, told AFP that the 200 people were evacuated from the hospital and taken by bus to Nasser hospital in the southern town of Khan Yunis. He told the news agency:

The Israeli army is laying siege to the Indonesian hospital.

An AFP reporter in Khan Yunis saw two buses arriving at Nasser hospital.

The ministry of health in Gaza earlier today said it believed 12 people had been killed in shelling overnight and that it feared a repeat of what happened at al-Shifa hospital complex, which was surrounded and raided by Israeli forces last week.

“We fear the same thing will happen there as it did in al-Shifa,” Qudra said, adding:

There are still 400 patients in the hospital and we are working with the ICRC to evacuate.

Israeli forces were closing in on the packed Indonesian hospital on Monday despite hopes that a ceasefire-for-hostages deal may be agreed.

Video broadcast on Al Jazeera TV on Monday showed damage to what were described as patient facilities, while daytime footage on social media appeared to show Israeli tanks close to the medical complex.

If you’re just joining us, Israeli forces are fighting near Gaza’s Indonesian hospital, where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks.

Health officials have managed to evacuate some of the wounded, but a medical worker inside the facility and the Health Ministry said a shell struck the second floor of the hospital, killing 12 people.

Palestinians wounded in Israeli strikes lie on the floor as they are assisted at the Indonesian hospital.

The health official blamed Israel, which denied shelling the hospital, saying its troops returned fire on militants who targeted them from inside the 3.5-acre (1.4 hectare) compound.

Meanwhile 28 premature babies were evacuated from Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital by the World Health Organization and transported to Egypt on Monday. Three others were transferred to an Emirati-run hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza, the Red Crescent said.

More than 250 critically ill or wounded patients remain stranded at the compound that Israeli forces stormed days ago.

A Palestinian medic cares for premature babies evacuated from Gaza City's Al Shifa hospital ahead of their transfer from a hospital in Rafah to Egypt, on 20 November 2023.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that the establishment of a Palestinian state would be the best way of ensuring Israel’s security.

Borrell held a video meeting with foreign ministers from the EU’s 27 countries after touring the Middle East for talks on Israel’s war with Hamas.

The EU’s top diplomat said that he had drawn “a fundamental political conclusion” from his discussions across the region.

“I think that the best guarantee for Israel’s security is the creation of a Palestinian state,” Borrell said in a written summary of the EU meeting.

Borrell has insisted Israel should not occupy Gaza after the current conflict ends and that control of the territory should be handed over to the Palestinian Authority.

“Despite the huge challenges, we have to advance our reflections on the stabilisation of Gaza and the future Palestinian state,” he said.

In the short-term, Borrell said, after visiting a string of Arab states, that there was a “sense of urgency” over the desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza.

“The UN Security Council resolution calling for immediate humanitarian pauses is a big step forward, but we must ensure its rapid implementation,” he said.

This is Helen Sullivan taking over the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

It’s 1am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

  • Israeli forces continued their offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza, closing in on the Indonesian hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was “appalled” by reports that 12 people, including patients, were killed in overnight shelling at the last hospital operating in northern Gaza. Some 200 patients have been evacuated from the Indonesian hospital on Monday, Gaza’s health ministry has said.

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that health services in Gaza have suffered “catastrophic” damage, with most hospitals no longer functioning. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme, warned that the thousands of injuries sustained by civilians across Gaza, combined with the growing public health crisis in the besieged enclave,is a “recipe for epidemics”. He also described Israel’s cooperation for humanitarian relief in Gaza as “subpar”.

  • The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said a clinic it operated in Gaza City was attacked on Monday morning. Part of the building was engulfed in flames, it said, and four marked MSF cars were burned while a fifth was found crushed by a heavy vehicle or a tank. The charity said it was not immediately aware of the status of one member of staff and 20 family members.

  • Twenty-eight premature babies were rescued from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and taken to Egypt on Monday. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said 31 “very sick” babies were moved from al-Shifa hospital in a joint operation with the UN and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and 12 of them had been flown to Cairo. Three babies remain in Gaza.

  • Israel and Hamas appear to be edging towards a deal that would see the release of a significant number of hostages, possibly in return for a limited ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Joe Biden on Monday said he believed a deal is near, and the White House later said the US is “doing everything we can” and that it believed “we’re closer than we’ve ever been”.

  • Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas have clashed with far-right Israeli politicians who want to bring in the death penalty as a possible sentence for captured Hamas members. The families said on Monday that even talk of doing so might endanger the lives of their relatives. The row underlines the deep divisions in Israel over how to deal with the hostage crisis.

  • The UN secretary general has said it is clear that the war in Gaza has seen “a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict” since he began his role in 2017. At a press conference on Monday, António Guterres also said he did not believe a UN protectorate in Gaza would be a solution to the conflict and that war must “move in a determined, irreversible way to a two-state solution”.

  • Relief trucks originally from Jordan entered Gaza from Egypt on Monday with the intention of setting up a new field hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Jordanian state media said it hoped the facility would help ease some of the humanitarian crisis as Israel’s forces seize medical facilities in the north.

  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they have seized what they called an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea, and warned that all vessels linked to Israel “will become a legitimate target for armed forces”. They have since released video footage reportedly showing armed men seizing a ship. Israel said the vessel was a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship.

A celebrated Palestinian poet and author, Mosab Abu Toha, has been arrested by Israeli forces while trying to leave Gaza, according to his friends and family.

Abu Toha had been told by US officials that he and his family would be able to cross into Egypt, as one of his children is an American citizen. They were on the way from north to south Gaza, heading for the Rafah crossing point on Sunday, when he was arrested along with other Palestinian men at a Israeli military checkpoint.

The IDF has not responded to requests for information about the whereabouts of Mosab Abu Toha, whose poetry got to the final of the National Book Critics Circle award in the US.

The poet’s brother, Hamza, said on social media:

The army took Mosab when he arrived at the checkpoint, leaving from the north to the south, as the army had ordered. The American embassy sent him and his family to go through the Rafah crossing. We have heard nothing from him.

Abu Toha had been writing in the New Yorker magazine about his experiences under bombardment in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. A collection of his poetry published in English in the US was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle award and won an American Book award this year.

Twenty-eight prematurely born babies evacuated from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital were taken to Egypt for urgent treatment on Monday.

The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Sunday that 31 “very sick” babies were moved in a joint operation with the UN and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

The babies were transported to a hospital in Rafah, on the southern border of Gaza, so their condition could be stabilised ahead of transfer to Egypt.

Tedros said 12 had been flown on to Cairo.

Three babies remained in Gaza, two for family reasons and one because the family could not be identified.

12 of the 28 premature babies transfer to hospitals to receive treatment after they arrive in Egypt from al-Shifa.
Medics treat premature Palestinian babies evacuated from Gaza at the New Administrative Capital (NAC) in the east of Cairo, Egypt.
A group of 28 premature babies have crossed into Egypt after being evacuated from Gaza’s besieged al-Shifa hospital

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said at least 50 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war began, updating a previous statement earlier today that put the death toll at 48.

The second-deadliest day occurred on Saturday 18 November, the CPJ said, with five journalists killed.

The deadliest day of the war was its first day, 7 October, with six journalists killed, it said.

Two hundred patients have been evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza on Monday with the help of the Red Cross, Gaza’s health ministry has said.

The Gaza health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, told AFP that the 200 people were evacuated from the hospital and taken by bus to Nasser hospital in the southern town of Khan Yunis. He told the news agency:

The Israeli army is laying siege to the Indonesian hospital.

An AFP reporter in Khan Yunis saw two buses arriving at Nasser hospital.

The ministry of health in Gaza earlier today said it believed 12 people had been killed in shelling overnight and that it feared a repeat of what happened at al-Shifa hospital complex, which was surrounded and raided by Israeli forces last week.

“We fear the same thing will happen there as it did in al-Shifa,” Qudra said, adding:

There are still 400 patients in the hospital and we are working with the ICRC to evacuate.

Israeli forces were closing in on the packed Indonesian hospital on Monday despite hopes that a ceasefire-for-hostages deal may be agreed.

Video broadcast on Al Jazeera TV on Monday showed damage to what were described as patient facilities, while daytime footage on social media appeared to show Israeli tanks close to the medical complex.

The WHO’s emergency response director, Michael Ryan, described Israel’s cooperation for humanitarian relief in Gaza as “subpar”.

He acknowledged that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had facilitated the entrance and exit of aid workers into al-Shifa hospital for the transportation of premature babies, “that has not been the case as a constant”, adding:

It has been exceptionally difficult to put in place a proper notification and deconfliction system and we have been operating for weeks without that system in place, and without that cooperation necessary to run humanitarian operations in a conflict zone.

Ryan specifically called out the Israeli defence ministry unit known as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), NBC reported.

The engagement between the WHO and Cogat “has been subpar to say the least, and has not been efficient”, he said.

The World Health Organization (WHO)‘s emergency response director, Michael Ryan, warned that the thousands of injuries sustained by civilians across Gaza, combined with the growing public health crisis in the besieged enclave,is a “recipe for epidemics”.

Speaking to journalists at the UN headquarters in New York, Ryan said “so many children” remain in danger in Gaza, with up to 1,500 children missing – many likely under rubble.

He said following the evacuation of many patients at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital over the weekend, health staff remaining at the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza may also need to be evacuated in the next few days amid continued fighting there.

The ultimatum from Israeli forces to keep moving is creating a concentration of people sheltering in centres and schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) that “fuels epidemic risks”, he said. Combined with the recent cold rain, that could lead to a spike in child pneumonia, he said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that health services in Gaza have suffered “catastrophic” damage, with most hospitals no longer functioning.

Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme, said 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza, “so we have twice or three times the population [in the south of Gaza], using one-third of the hospital beds in less than a third of the hospitals available”. He added:

Even if tomorrow morning, this were to end in terms of a ceasefire, we still have a huge problem on our hands.

Health services have been unable to provide care for more complex medical cases – including care for most cancer and kidney dialysis patients, he said. In addition, about 5,500 births are expected in the next month, which will likely overwhelm the system, he said.

The hospital situation – the primary health care system situation – in Gaza is catastrophic and it is the worst you can imagine [in the] north.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it has interrogated more than 300 members of Hamas and other militant groups arrested in Gaza during its ground invasion.

The interrogations have revealed the locations of underground tunnels, warehouses, weapons and Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure, AP reported a senior Israeli military official saying.

Each and every interrogation leads to the release of new locations and the human intelligence that emerges from the Gaza Strip.

Israeli infantry soldiers pray in a synagogue near the border during training in readiness for possible deployment across the border into Gaza in southern Israel.

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