Army claims operation was a success but WHO says patients were killed and over 100 remain in compound
Israeli forces announced on Monday their withdrawal from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza after a two-week raid, with Palestinians describing the extensive destruction left behind by the army and bodies scattered in the dirt of the complex.City’s main hospital before the war – was used to harbour Hamas fighters. The army described the operation as one of the most successful of the nearly six-month conflict and cited the killing of scores of militants including senior operatives.
According to a statement by the World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,in the late hours of Sunday, at least 21 individuals died during the military operation with more than 100 patients still remaining in the compound, at least 28 in critical condition. Video footage circulating online showed heavily damaged and charred buildings, mounds of dirt that had been churned up by bulldozers, and patients on stretchers in darkened corridors, the Associated Press reported.had established its main northern headquarters inside the hospital and blamed the Palestinian militants for the destruction, saying fighters had barricaded themselves inside the facility.
Netanyahu is entering the most precarious week for his coalition since the war began as a deadline imposed by the Israeli supreme court to end the exemption for ultra-Orthodox students from military conscription was reached on Monday. The issue divides the coalition between the rightwing religious and the secular parties who want to see conscription shared more equally among Jewish Israelis.
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