Early Friday, the Hamas-run well being ministry stated on its Fb web page that the hospital’s energy provide had minimize out, endangering the lives of six grownup sufferers and three infants in intensive care depending on oxygen. About 40 minutes later, it stated in one other publish that three of the sufferers had died.
The Israeli army’s evacuation orders earlier than the raid on the Nasser complex, which had been the biggest functioning hospital left in Gaza and had 1000’s of civilians sheltering on its grounds, sparked alarm from worldwide observers.
“Nasser is the spine of the well being system in southern Gaza,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director basic of the World Well being Group, wrote on X earlier within the week. “It have to be protected.”
Israel’s army late Thursday stated it was persevering with its search of hospital grounds. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli army’s chief spokesman, stated its forces had not positioned any hostages taken within the Oct. 7 Hamas assault. The army stated earlier that its raid on the Nasser hospital was primarily based partly on intelligence that captives had been held there and that their our bodies might have been on the hospital grounds.
Admiral Hagari additionally recognized three individuals he stated have been positioned on the grounds of Nasser Hospital linked to the Oct. 7 assaults or an armed group, in an obvious effort to shore up justification for its raid.
One man was an ambulance driver who had transported hostages into Gaza as a part of the Hamas assaults, and one other admitted to participating within the killings on that day, Admiral Hagari stated. A 3rd man was a “recognized” member of the Fashionable Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine, he stated.
“We discovered extra, dozens extra,” he stated, saying the army would supply further particulars in coming days.
A number of have been killed and wounded together with at the very least one doctor and affected person in Thursday morning’s incursion. Movies confirmed chaotic scenes contained in the hospital’s smoke-filled corridors, with components of the ceiling collapsing and wire and beams protruding as gurneys are being rushed previous.
