The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip after demolishing its southern wall.
The Ministry of Health has said in a statement that the Israeli army stormed the maternity building at the Nasser Medical Complex, as it continues a raid on southern Gaza’s largest health facility.
The ministry added that the military destroyed two ambulances inside the compound.
At first light on this morning, the IOF also forcibly relocated the families of the medical supplies and the remaining displaced individuals from the Nasser Medical Complex.
The Ministry went on to say that the Israeli occupation ordered the complex administration to transfer all patients—including those in critical care and the nursery—as well as six patients who were on respiration, to the former Nasser building.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health, Mai AlKaila, issued a warning earlier on Thursday, citing “an imminent humanitarian catastrophe, as a result of the Israeli orders to evacuate the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.”
She emphasized that the occupation forces stormed the courtyard of the complex and opened fire on its departments, resulting in the death of a citizen at dawn on Thursday and the injuries of several patients.
“This is a new crime being committed by the Israeli occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip,” Alkaila said in a statement.
She continued by saying that the terrible Israeli bombing left no safe place in the Strip, which has resulted in over 28,600 civilian deaths, roughly 69,000 injuries, and thousands more lost beneath the debris.
She explained that the displaced people took refuge in the Nasser Medical Complex to escape the brutal occupation aggression, and that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip.
The health minister went on to emphasize “the scope of the horrific humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the occupation’s ongoing aggression, the scarcity of food, drink, and medicine, and the spread of diseases.”
Of the 36 hospitals in Gaza, 14 are partially operational, with nine located in the south and six in the north.
Since October 7, the Israeli occupation army has waged a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which has left an enormous humanitarian catastrophe and a major health and environmental disaster.
The Israeli occupation destroyed the only supplies of fuel, electricity, water, and food for the people of the Gaza Strip at the start of the conflict by bombing bakeries, factories, stores, water stations, tanks, and other infrastructure.
The Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, as it exposes the civilians’ lives to extreme danger and causes them great suffering, which requires urgent and decisive international intervention to stop the aggression and protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
