Israel orders evacuation of northern Gaza hospital; ‘next to impossible’ say medics | World News
Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety. Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics transport on a gurney a person who was injured in a reported strike on a Palestinian civilian vehicle by Israeli forces, after arriving for medical care at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on December 22, 2024.(AFP) The head of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Husam Abu Safiya, told Reuters via text message that obeying the order to shut down was “next to impossible” because there were not enough ambulances to get patients out. “We currently have nearly 400 civilians inside the hospital, including babies in the neonatal unit, whose lives depend on oxygen and incubators. We cannot evacuate these patients safely without assistance, equipment, and time,” said Abu Safiya. ALSO READ | ‘Children were bombed’: Pope Francis calls Israeli airstrikes on Gaza …




