The siege of al-Shifa hospital/ thousands of people’s lives are in danger

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip issued a statement about the attack This morning, the occupying army announced to al-Shifa medical complex in the west of Gaza City that a big fire broke out at the entrance of this hospital and the women and children in the hospital were suffocated.

The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that the refugees inside The building of specialized surgeries and the emergency department of Al-Shifa Medical Complex are closed. As a result of the air raids of the occupying army on this hospital, a number of people were martyred and injured.

This ministry emphasized that due to the severity of the fire and the targeting of anyone who approaches the windows, it is not possible to save any of the There are no injured people.

The Al Jazeera reporter also reported that military vehicles of the Zionist regime opened fire towards Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surroundings in the west of Gaza City.

The army of the occupying regime also announced that the joint forces of this army and Shabak continue their military operations in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip issued a statement announcing that the occupation army attacked Al-Shifa Medical Complex with tanks and Drones and weapons are a war crime and indicate the deliberate intention of the occupiers to destroy the Gaza health sector and destroy hospitals.

According to this statement, the occupying army has been using tanks and drones since the early hours of this morning. A large group of their soldiers attacked al-Shifa medical complex and the enemy forces started shooting inside this hospital, which caused fear and panic among the wounded, sick and displaced people. Currently, the lives of thousands of people who are in Al-Shifa medical complex are in danger and the occupying regime is adding another war crime to its black record of crimes. We condemn the occupation army’s attack on al-Shifa hospital and consider it a clear war crime and contrary to international laws and a violation of all international conventions. The occupying regime and the American government and the international community are fully responsible for the lives of the medical teams, the wounded, the sick and the displaced in the hospital. put pressure on the civil infrastructures of Gaza, including hospitals.

In the situation that since the beginning of the war against Gaza in the last 6 months, the occupying regime has been deliberately targeting all the vital infrastructures in this area in order to give signs of life to the people. Gaza must be destroyed, the occupying forces at dawn today, in the framework of the Zionist army’s systematic attacks on hospitals and health centers, organized a brutal attack on Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the west of Gaza City and targeted everyone who was there.

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