The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced the evacuation of about 8,000 displaced people from Al Amal Hospital and the society’s headquarters in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, after the Israeli occupation forces besieged them for two weeks.
The association said that these displaced people lived “an atmosphere of terror and panic” throughout the siege period as a result of continued bombing and shooting.
She added in a statement that the occupation forces summoned the member of the association’s executive office, the general director of Al-Amal Hospital, Haider Al-Qudra, and the hospital’s administrative director, Maher Atallah, and took them to an unknown destination.
The Red Crescent indicated that only 40 displaced elderly people remained in Al Amal Hospital, in addition to about 80 sick and wounded people, and 100 administrative and medical staff.
Anatolia Agency said that hundreds of Palestinians who were discharged from Al-Amal Hospital and the Red Crescent headquarters were displaced to the city of Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.
#a witness| After being besieged by the occupation for more than two weeks, hundreds of displaced people leave Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis. pic.twitter.com/pxl0dnEIJf
– Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) February 5, 2024
The Red Crescent announced last Friday that the occupation forces had killed 43 people, including 3 of the association’s employees, since the start of the siege of its headquarters in Khan Yunis.
Since January 22, the occupation army has been carrying out intensive raids on Khan Yunis and the vicinity of its hospitals, with its vehicles penetrating the southern and western areas of the city, prompting thousands of Palestinians to flee again to the far south of the Strip.
Since last October, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of Monday, has left 27,478 martyrs and 66,835 injured, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, and most of the martyrs and wounded are women and children.
