Israel extends military operation in Gaza, hospital attacked – Diepresse.com

The Israeli army has confirmed reports of an attack on a hospital building on Sunday in the north of the Gaza Strip. The goal is a command center of the Hamas The Israeli military and domestic intelligence agency shared Shin bet with. Members of the Islamist organization had carried out and planned attacks from there, which would also have taken Israeli civilians. The Israeli military did not provide details.

Israel’s army took steps before the attack to protect civilians and to keep damage to the clinic in the city of Gaza as low as possible, the explanation said. There was a warning in advance. Nobody was injured in the attack.

Evacuation call before attack

Eyewitnesses confirmed the German press agency that the army asked the hospital administration to evacuate the clinic before the attack. Patients and employees had 18 minutes to leave the hospital, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing eyewitnesses. In cool weather, dozens of patients should have spent on the streets around the clinic. A nine -year -old boy had succumbed to his injuries during the evacuation, it was said from medical circles.

According to Palestinian information, a building of the clinic was hit and destroyed in an Israeli air raid on Sunday night. Fires broke out in the emergency room, among other things, reported Wafa. According to the Palestinian news agency, the Al-Ali Hospital has been the most important medical facility in the north of the Gaza Strip in recent months.

According to Kathpress, the Anglican Church in Jerusalem condemned two Israeli rocket attacks on the Al-Ali Hospital in Gaza. Parts of the hospital and surrounding buildings, including the church, were partially badly damaged, it was said in a message from the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem on Sunday. According to the Anglicans, it was the fifth attack on the hospital since the beginning of the Gaza War in October 2023. The church called on « All governments and people of good will » to « intervene in order to stop all types of attacks on medical and humanitarian facilities ».

Palestinians: At least ten deaths in further attacks

In other Israeli attacks on Sunday, at least ten people were killed. Among them should also be the head of a police station in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip. Israel did not comment on this at first.

Israel’s army extends her soil inserts in the Gaza Strip and pushes after U.N.-Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in an ever smaller area on the Mediterranean coast. According to her own, Israel wants to create a larger buffer zone along its border. On Saturday evening, a military spokesman asked residents in the Nuseirirat area in the center of Gazas to leave the district. According to the army, Israel had previously been shot from there. (APA)