Palestinian Red Crescent warns: The lives of medical staff and displaced people at Al-Amal Hospital are in danger due to the Israeli blockade  

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has warned that the lives of medical staff and displaced people at Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip are in danger as a result of Israel’s 11-day bombing of the hospital, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

The society said in a statement reported by WAFA today: The occupation forces continue for the eleventh consecutive day to siege Al Amal Hospital and bomb its vicinity, preventing the exit or entry of anyone into its buildings, including ambulance crews.

Frequent incursions into the hospital’s courtyards are also carried out and shots are fired directly at those in the buildings, threatening the lives of medical staff and displaced persons.

The society pointed out that there is a significant shortage of food for medical staff, patients and displaced people, which forced it to reduce meals to one per day to preserve the remaining food, in addition to an acute shortage of infant formula, medical supplies, medicines and fuel.

The society explained that the occupation forces shelled the hospital’s surroundings today, resulting in the injury of 13 displaced people and causing damage to the building, noting that the lives of seven patients and wounded are in danger if they are not transferred for treatment outside the hospital.

Amal Farhat