A few days after the military operation of the Israeli army againstal-Chifa hospitalthe largest in the Gaza Strip, located in the north, about a hundred people were evacuated on Sunday 19 November, including 31 premature babies.
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These 31 newborns were still in the building when the military offensive began. They were transported to a facility set up by the United Arab Emirates in Rafah, southern Gaza. They will receive” urgent care in the neonatal intensive care unit », the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated on his X account (formerly Twitter), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Second Mohammed Zaqoutdirector general of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, “ these children suffered a lot »and I suffered” significant after-effects “, he explained to the press. She affirms it eight of them died due to lack of treatment before the transfer, including two on Sunday morning.
A “desperate” situation at al-Shifa hospital
Since operations began on Wednesday 15 November, the WHO chief has described the hospital as a “ death zone » where is the situation “ desperate ” because of lack of water, electricity, medicines, food and medical equipment. If the hospital had evacuated most of its residents on the same day, 291 patients would still be there today, unable to move without medical assistance.
An operation carried out by the Israeli army because according to the latter the building hosts a Hamas hideout, installed in particular in a network of tunnels. Thus the army, which took control of the hospital complex in Gaza City, reported that it had discovered a tunnel, reportedly used by fighters of the Islamic movement.
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