Dozens of Palestinians were seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis after Israeli forces ordered the facility vacated, but medical aid workers said the situation was in critical condition. The patient remains in the hospital in critical condition.
Video footage shared with Al Jazeera showed dozens of evacuees inside the hospital being evacuated on Wednesday. Doctors wearing green hospital scrubs led the crowd, some holding white flags.
The Israeli military ordered the complex to be vacated on Tuesday.in post The article, shared on social media platform This is an unsubstantiated claim about the facility.
The Israeli military used drones and loudspeakers to direct people to leave Nasser Hospital, but medical workers and patients could remain inside the hospital, while a “secure He said he had opened “Root”.
But witnesses and the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said people sheltering in place were afraid to go out after reports of people being shot while evacuating. Israeli forces also opened fire on people inside the hospital, including doctors and nurses.
MSF's Guilmet Thomas told Al Jazeera that the situation in the hospital was already critical, but the situation on the ground had become even more “horrifying” in the past 24 hours.
“The situation is really critical for patients and we are worried about the future,” she said.
It added that about 400 patients were in critical condition at the hospital.
'Very dangerous'
Dr. Ahmed al-Mograbi, head of plastic surgery at Nasser Hospital, recorded a message from inside the facility when Israel issued an evacuation order.
“[The Israeli army] They sent the hostages with handcuffs to the hospital and asked them to tell us to evacuate. And when people began to evacuate in earnest, they opened fire and fired at people.and they killed the hostages [they had sent inside]as well,” he said.
Al-Mograbi said he was “trapped inside a building” not far from the hospital's main gate. “We are only 50 meters away from the tank.” [164 feet], this is very dangerous. ”
Nasser Hospital, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, has been under siege for three weeks. The bodies of several people killed by Israeli sniper fire on hospital grounds have been lying on the ground for several days, too dangerous to access.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least three people have been killed by Israeli snipers near the facility in the past 48 hours.
Reporting from the city of Rafah on Wednesday, Al Jazeera's Tarek Abu Azizm said Israeli forces had set up checkpoints along the road leading to the Nasser medical facility, forcing people to evacuate.
“The situation is becoming more difficult and dire by the hour for those who are confined within this medical facility,” he said. “Some people [who left]Those exposed to Israeli fire were forced to return to medical facilities. ”
Earlier, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said Israeli forces had destroyed one of the facility's main gates.
“They destroyed the north gate of the hospital and blocked it with a pile of dirt and rubble. Currently only the east gate is open,” a report from Rafah also said.
“Tanks and armored vehicles are parked in front of that gate. Facial recognition cameras have been installed… From past experience, installing facial recognition cameras and high-tech equipment means that soon raids and mass arrests will occur. “It means that something will happen,” he added.
Israeli forces have carried out a series of raids on hospitals in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7, in which more than 28,000 Palestinians have been killed.
Just 36 hours into the war, Israel targeted Nasser Hospital, Indonesian Hospital and Al-Quds Hospital, killing dozens of medical workers. By the end of November, 30 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip had been attacked by Israeli rockets. Currently, only six of Gaza's hospitals remain functional.
