{"id":46896,"date":"2023-11-12T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T12:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/business\/un-aid-chief-condemns-reprehensible-attacks-on-gaza-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T12:36:28","slug":"un-aid-chief-condemns-reprehensible-attacks-on-gaza-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/?p=46896","title":{"rendered":"UN aid chief condemns \u2018reprehensible\u2019 attacks on Gaza hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=9441f460-e066-438a-8d6c-f925a4073911\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>A top UN official has condemned attacks on hospitals in Gaza as \u201cunconscionable\u201d and \u201creprehensible\u201d, as Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in the streets around the besieged strip\u2019s largest medical facility. <\/p>\n<p>Martin Griffiths, the UN\u2019s humanitarian aid chief, said hospitals across Gaza had been left with \u201cno power, food or water\u201d and there had been shooting at patients and civilians as they sought to flee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unconscionable, reprehensible and must stop,\u201d he said in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNReliefChief\/status\/1723378681651909067\" data-trackable=\"link\">post<\/a> on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cThere can be no justification for acts of war in healthcare facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffiths\u2019 remarks reflect rising alarm over the dire conditions in Gaza\u2019s hospitals, particularly al-Shifa, the largest medical facility in the strip, where thousands of people had sought shelter from Israel\u2019s bombardment of the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian health official said al-Shifa had no electricity, except for its emergency department, after it ran out of fuel to power generators and no water, saying water tanks had been struck during the fighting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHospitals are being besieged, bombed, and their patients, medical staff and displaced people being killed in full view of the entire world,\u201d the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization said on Sunday that it had lost communication with its contacts in al-Shifa, amid \u201chorrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UN agency said al-Shifa had been hit \u201cmultiple times\u201d and was now \u201csurrounded by tanks\u201d. \u201cThere are reports that some people who fled the hospital have been shot at, wounded and even killed,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>However, those reports have been challenged by Israeli authorities. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\"  width=\"2194\" height=\"1462\"><\/source><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/https:\/\/d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net\/production\/f7b9ccfc-ce60-4a47-b7a1-ecf331b2b4fd.jpg\" alt=\"Al-Shifa hospital on Friday\" data-image-type=\"image\" width=\"2194\" height=\"1462\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption\"><span>Patients in al-Shifa on Friday. The World Health Organization said on Sunday that it had lost communication with its contacts in the hospital<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Khader Al Zanoun\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel\u2019s co-ordination and liaison administration to Gaza, called reports of a siege and strikes on al-Shifa \u201clies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven now, anyone who wants to leave can do so,\u201d he said in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1723364539939385819\" data-trackable=\"link\">post<\/a> on X. The eastern side of the facility remained open, he added. <\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Saturday that armed clashes had taken place between its troops and Hamas militants around al-Shifa, though they had not fired at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF says the medical complex sits atop Hamas command centres and accuses the organisation of operating from a dense network of tunnels under al-Shifa, using civilians in the facility as human shields \u2014 a claim Hamas denies.<\/p>\n<p>The battles in Gaza City are the latest stage in a ground offensive Israel launched more than two weeks ago with the aim of eliminating Hamas and toppling its rule over Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The war was triggered by Hamas\u2019s devastating rampage through southern Israel on October 7, in which its militants killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 240 hostages. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, more than 11,000 Gaza residents have been killed in Israel\u2019s bombardment of the strip, according to Palestinian health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s prime minister, said on Saturday that Israel would not cease military operations in Gaza until it achieved victory.<\/p>\n<p>He also rejected the idea that the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the Israel-occupied West Bank, could control Gaza after the war, putting himself on a collision course with the US, which is actively advocating the option of PA rule in the strip. <\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 20 of the 36 hospitals in Gaza had been forced to cease operating as a result of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Al Jazeera, Dr Mohamed Abu Silmeyeh, al-Shifa\u2019s director, said 37 premature infants had been taken off their incubators \u201cbecause there is no power\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are now lying on ordinary beds, we placed them ten to a bed in a normal room\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009and we are trying to preserve their lives for as many hours as we can,\u201d he said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Abu Silmeyeh said that despite Israel saying there was a safe corridor for people to leave the complex, it was not possible for anybody to do so. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the hospital\u2019s administrators had asked the Red Cross on Saturday to intercede with Israel and allow the premature infants to be moved to a safer part of the complex. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want these babies to be taken out because if they stay here more than 24 hours they will die,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army said it was ready to evacuate babies from al-Shifa, where Palestinian officials said two newborns died on Saturday after fuel to power its generators ran out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9441f460-e066-438a-8d6c-f925a4073911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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