Al-Shifa Complex stops working completely and patients face the risk of death

A medical source from inside Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza reported that medical services had completely stopped after the Israeli occupation army stormed the hospital at dawn on Wednesday. He warned that "hundreds of sick and wounded are at risk of death, as the wounds have begun to rot, which threatens the spread of epidemics."

A medical source from inside Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City, said on Wednesday that medical services had completely stopped after the Israeli occupation army stormed large parts of the hospital at dawn on Wednesday.

The source added to Anadolu, preferring not to publish his name for security reasons, that the occupation army is detaining the displaced inside the departments of the medical complex and preventing entry and exit from the hospital.

He warned that "hundreds of sick and wounded are at risk of death due to the cessation of services, as the wounds have begun to rot, which threatens the spread of epidemics."

He pointed out that "Israeli forces are stationed in the dialysis department, and are besieging the rest of the departments from outside the complex, amid a very tragic situation."

At dawn on Wednesday, Israeli occupation army forces stormed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, after besieging it for the sixth day in a row.

At dawn on the 40th day of the aggression against Gaza, the army announced the start of a military operation in a “certain part” of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City.

The Israeli occupation army's announcement came after a statement by the Ministry of Health in Gaza in which it said, "The army officially informed the administration of the medical complex that it will storm the place tonight."

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a press statement on Al Jazeera, “Dozens of soldiers entered the emergency department building in the Al-Shifa Complex, and occupation tanks entered the medical complex campus.”

He added, "The Israeli occupation forces are searching the basement of Al-Shifa Hospital."

Al-Qudra denounced the Israeli army’s shooting inside the hospital after storming it, saying: “Nothing calls for shooting inside Al-Shifa Hospital because there is no form of resistance there, and what the Israeli occupation is doing constitutes terrorism for doctors and patients.”

Not a single shot was fired

In the same context, the Director General of Gaza Hospitals, Dr. Muhammad Zaqout, confirmed that not a single bullet was fired from inside the Al-Shifa Complex during the storming.

Zaqout said in a press statement on Wednesday, “The occupation forces stormed the surgical and emergency buildings in the Shifa Complex and entered the emergency department, and are now searching the hospital’s basement.”

He pointed out that "the occupation army opened fire on those who left the corridor that it claimed was safe to exit the Shifa Complex," adding that "the occupation army believed that its soldiers entering the Shifa Complex would be a victory for it, but it did not find any evidence of the presence of resistance."

Warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe

As for the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Al-Kaila, she held Israel responsible for the lives of the medical staff, patients, and displaced people in the Al-Shifa Complex, and said, “The occupation forces are committing a new crime against humanity by besieging and bombing the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.”

The Minister of Health warned of "catastrophic consequences for patients and medical staff if the occupation army carries out a storming of the Shifa Medical Complex."

"war crime"

For his part, Director General of the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Al-Thawabta, confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex west of Gaza City is a “war crime.”

Al-Thawabta said in a press statement on Al Jazeera, “The occupation will fail to prove that Al-Shifa Hospital is the headquarters of the resistance leadership,” pointing out that he expects “the occupation will bring weapons into the hospital, arrange them in a specific way, and then photograph them.”

He added: "We sent appeals to all international organizations and the Red Cross a few days ago to rescue the wounded in the Shifa complex, but they refused to respond and aligned themselves with the goals of the occupation, and bear part of the responsibility for what is happening."

There are about 1,500 medical staff members, about 700 patients, 39 premature babies, and 7,000 displaced people in the Shifa Complex, according to a statement by the government media office in Gaza.

For days, the complex and its surroundings, as well as other hospitals in the Gaza Strip, have been continuously targeted by bombing by the occupation army, claiming that “there is a headquarters for Palestinian militants,” which the government in Gaza has repeatedly denied.

Israeli military analyst: The storming of "Al-Shifa" without the presence of prisoners harmed Tel Aviv's image internationally

A military analyst in the newspaper "Haaretz" said that Israel created the impression that Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza was the "heart of darkness," noting that "no kidnappers were found" according to the Israeli army's claim, and that this harmed Israel's image internationally.

The Israeli military analyst for the Hebrew newspaper "Haaretz", Yossi Melman, criticized the army after portraying the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City as the "Heart of Darkness", without finding any prisoners or Hamas fighters inside it.

Melman, who won the Sokolov Prize for Journalism in 2009, said in a post on his account on the X platform: “I have a bad feeling towards (Al-Shifa). Israel has created an unprecedented image and created the impression that Al-Shifa Hospital is the heart of darkness.”

He added: “At that time, neither the kidnappers nor the terrorists were found there, and now the army spokesman says that they entered Al-Shifa because it is a symbol of Hamas, and weapons, maps, and an operations room were also found there,” as he put it.

Melman continued: “This is not really impressive, and was it up to expectations, and equal to the damage to the international image” that Israel suffered as a result of the storming of the hospital?

Israeli Army Radio said on Wednesday that there were “no indications” of the presence of Israeli prisoners in Al-Shifa Hospital, even though the army claimed for weeks that they were there.

On Wednesday evening, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “Al-Shifa is a symbol of Hamas. No one in the movement’s leadership imagined that we would get there.”

Hagari continued: “We found uniforms of Hamas activists that were thrown on the hospital floor so that they could escape in civilian clothes.”

He claimed that "an operations headquarters, weapons and technological equipment were found in the MRI building."

On Wednesday, Hamas commented on what the Israeli army published, saying that it was a “poor theatrics.”

She added: "The Zionist occupation's claim that it found weapons and equipment in Al-Shifa Medical Complex is nothing but a continuation of the lies and cheap propaganda through which it tries to justify its crime aimed at destroying the health sector in Gaza."

At dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli army stormed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, after besieging it for days, as it contains civilians who were displaced from their homes as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing in the area.

For 41 days, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving 11,500 Palestinian martyrs, including 4,710 children and 3,160 women, in addition to 29,800 injured, 70% of whom are children and women, according to the latest official Palestinian statistics.

The Turkish Parliament approves the extension of the army’s duties in Azerbaijan

The Turkish Parliament approved a memorandum submitted by the Turkish Presidency to extend the work of Turkish forces in Azerbaijan, as they carry out peacekeeping missions after the Karabakh war.

On Wednesday, the Turkish Parliament approved the presidential memorandum regarding extending the tasks of the Armed Forces in Azerbaijan for an additional year.

The Presidency of the Republic transmitted a memorandum to the Presidency of Parliament, extending the tasks of the Turkish Armed Forces in Azerbaijan for a year.

Following the discussion, the General Assembly of Parliament approved the presidential memorandum regarding extending the missions of Turkish forces in Azerbaijan for an additional year, starting from November 17.

On November 17, 2020, the Turkish Parliament approved a presidential memorandum regarding sending forces to Azerbaijan, expiring on November 17, 2021.

Turkish forces participate in peacekeeping operations in the Karabakh region, as they are located next to Russian forces and carry out the tasks of monitoring the commitment of the various parties to the peace process, and a joint Russian-Turkish monitoring center was established for this purpose.

On September 27, 2020, the Azerbaijani army launched an operation to liberate its occupied territories in the Karabakh region, and after fierce battles that lasted 44 days, Russia announced on November 10 that Azerbaijan and Armenia had reached a ceasefire agreement, stipulating that Baku would regain control. On occupied provinces.