Gaza is in ruins as Israel fights Hamas. Israeli siege puts Al Amal Hospital “out of service,” Palestine Red Crescent Society says.
The Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza is “out of service” after the Israeli military forced medical staff to evacuate the facility, Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) warned on Tuesday.
“The occupation forces forced the hospital teams to evacuate and closed its entrances with earthen barriers,” the organization said in a statement on X.
At least 27 PRCS staff and six patients were evacuated from the hospital,
At least 27 PRCS staff and six patients were evacuated from the hospital, with help from the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs. The bodies of two people who had been killed inside the hospital were included in the evacuation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said “troops are continuing to conduct operational activity in the areas of Al Amal and Al-Qarara, eliminating terrorists and carrying out targeted raids on terrorist infrastructure,” on Tuesday.
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Israeli forces wounded displaced people sheltering at the hospital, who later died, the PRCS said on Sunday.
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Hospitals are protected civilian objects under international humanitarian law. It is illegal, with few exceptions, to attack hospitals. A hospital can lose its special protected status only if it is used by an armed group for acts that are “harmful to the enemy.”
But, even if a hospital loses its special status, the wounded and sick inside are still protected by the principle of proportionality. A warning must be given, and time for safe evacuation, before carrying out an attack.
UK carries out first solo airdrop into Gaza.
The UK carried out its first solo airdrop into Gaza on Monday, dropping over 11 tons of food aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
A Royal Air Force plane flew from Amman, in Jordan, to release the aid along the northern Gaza coastline “as part of the Jordanian-led international aid mission,” the UK Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.
The UK stressed its commitment to ensuring that the food aid, including “water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula,” reaches those who “need it most.”
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Humanitarian agencies have criticized airdrops as an inefficient and degrading way of getting aid to Gazans, urging Israeli authorities to lift controls on land crossings into the enclave.
“You’re throwing aid into the wind to people who’ve been starving and have been denied humanitarian access. This will create chaos, predictably, and we cannot blame the people for that,” the UN’s special rapporteur for food, Michael Fakhri, told journalists in Geneva earlier this month.
There have been calls on allies of Israel, including the UK and the US, to put pressure on Israel to allow more relief into Gaza via land crossings.
British defense secretary Grant Shapps on Tuesday said Israel should “provide port access and open more land crossings in order to increase incoming aid deliveries to Gaza.”
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