The Director of the Ministry of Health said Gaza strip Mounir Al-Barsh said that the Israeli occupation continues to intensively bomb the surroundings of the Indonesian hospital from all sides, pointing out that it issued a warning to evacuate the hospital within 4 hours, while 200 injured children and the elderly are still inside the hospital.
He explained in his interview with Al Jazeera that yesterday, Wednesday, about 450 wounded and displaced people were evacuated to the southern regions in coordination with Red CrossThe rest of the injured are expected to be evacuated during the day.
He pointed out that the occupation threatened the hospital more than once through written warnings and communications, and that it is currently following up on the process of evacuating the hospital in light of its policy, which it insists on violently, which consists of forcing all residents of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip to migrate to the south.
In this context, Al-Barsh believes that the occupation is deeply disturbed by the fact that most of the people of the North do not submit to this policy, as only 25% of the 1.2 million population of the North have been displaced, which is what prompts it to increase violence and abuse against them.
Regarding the discharge of 450 wounded people who were in the hospital yesterday, Wednesday, the health director described the scene as “very terrible,” as everyone wanted to escape from the difficult conditions controlling the hospital, so they competed to take their places on the buses, while the elderly and children who could not compete for seats remained. Exit.
He pointed out that they requested 4 buses and 10 other ambulances to transport those who remained in the hospital, who are 200 patients in addition to a limited medical and administrative staff, stressing that they are still under the siege of the occupation forces, which do not allow food, water and medicine to enter them, and target everyone who goes out by plane. The march.
In this context, he pointed out that many of those who tried to leave at the beginning of the hospital siege were targeted, and the bodies of many of them are still on the side of the road, noting that there are also dozens of bodies, in the hospital yard and its various departments, that the occupation did not allow to bury.