Several people have been killed and dozens of others wounded after Israeli jets bombed the main entrance of Shifa Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A convoy of ambulances was transporting critically injured patients from the largest hospital in Gaza to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt when it was targeted by Israeli warplanes on Friday, said Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the health ministry in Gaza.
“We informed the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, we informed the whole world, that those victims were lined up in those ambulances,” he said. “This was a medical convoy.”
The causalities included dozens of the sick and wounded people and their families, paramedics, and displaced civilians who sought refuge there after their homes were destroyed in Israel’s bombings.
According to local sources, some 40,000 people were seeking refuge at the hospital.
Photos and videos of the scene showed dozens of fatalities and wounded people lying on the ground while civilians and paramedics trying to take them inside the hospital.
In yet another brutal move, the Israeli regime dropped bombs in the courtyards of the Indonesian hospital and al-Quds hospital.
The Gaza health ministry said some 16 hospitals across Gaza are no longer functioning due to damage from Israel’s strikes and a lack of fuel.
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the fuel shortage “immediately risks the lives” of the wounded and other patients.
On Friday, the 28th day of Israel’s genocidal air attacks on the Gaza Strip, the death toll reached at least 9,227 people, including 3,826 children and more than 2,405 women. At least 23,516 people have been wounded.
The regime launched the war on October 7 after Gaza’s resistance groups conducted Operation al-Aqsa Storm, their biggest operation against the occupying entity in years.
