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Israel orders evacuation of 10,000 IDPs from Nasser hospital in south Gaza

Jerusalem, Feb 13 (EFE).- Israeli forces on Tuesday ordered 10,000 people taking refuge at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip to evacuate, according to the Gazan Health Ministry.

The Hamas-run ministry said Israeli gunfire had left “martyrs and wounded” among the displaced people.

The hospital, which has been operating at a minimum for weeks due to fuel shortages and a lack of medical supplies, has some 300 medical staff, in addition to 450 wounded and around 10,000 displaced people, according to figures from Feb. 8.

“The displaced are being shot at when they try to leave,” a ministry statement said, which does not specify the number of dead or wounded, but does say that the lifeless bodies “cannot be transferred to the morgue due to the extreme risk (of gunfire).”

In addition, fire in nearby schools caused by Israeli attacks is said to have spread to the medical equipment warehouse, which “burned to the ground,” as well as to the medical supplies warehouse, which was 80% burned, according to spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra.

On Sunday, at least 10 civilians were killed in Nasser and Gaza’s European Hospital, both in Khan Younis, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Three days earlier, two other Palestinians were killed around Nasser, while a nurse was “seriously wounded” after being hit inside an operating room by a sniper, the Health Ministry said.

Since the beginning of the offensive on Oct. 8, hospitals in Gaza have been under constant attack by Israeli forces, in what human rights organizations describe as “a violation of international humanitarian law”.

Israel claims that Hamas, the Islamist movement that governs the Strip, has concealed military installations within and beneath the enclave’s hospitals and other civilian infrastructure. EFE

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