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Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the main hospital in Gaza now, stopped receiving the injured after the Israeli forces surrounded him. The medical staff said that the tanks were a few meters away, and that they were “closer to death than them to life.”
They added that the equipment, including the newborn nursery unit, has stopped working due to lack of fuel.
An American medical team from the Ghalaly Charitable Association, working in the hospital, said that snipers were shot on people inside the complex, and they treated a person with a bullet in the back.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army. However, the army said on Friday morning that an armored brigade was working in Khan Yunis to dismantle “terrorist infrastructure sites” and confiscate weapons. He had previously issued evacuation orders to the areas surrounding the hospital.
An eyewitness told the BBC that Israeli tanks accompanied by excavations and bulldozers advanced from the south of the cemetery near Nasser Hospital on Thursday.
He explained that the tanks fired shells and shots while storming an area that was previously agricultural lands, and was set in fire in several tents belonging to displaced families. Video footage posted on the Internet showed a column of black smoke rising from the area.
Al -Shahid added that Israeli aircraft march a four -fly fire also opened fire on tents in the Austrian towers and the informants to force the residents to evacuate them. Another video clip showed dozens of people running to take shelter in the sound of shooting.
The hospital’s emergency doctor, Saber Al -Asmar, told the “News Awar” program on the BBC that the medical staff had not received any contact from the Israeli army previously informing them of the operation or determining whether they need to evacuate the facility.
He added: “I stormed [القوات الإسرائيلية] The area, then I asked people, through the microphone, to leave immediately, without even taking any of their purposes from the hospital, so people started fleeing the fire and bombing. “
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The Israeli army said it was “achieving” in reports on “harm to civilians” while trying to obtain aid in Gaza, while the civil defense in the Strip announced the killing of 16 people, including ten waiting humanitarian aid.
In the details, the Israeli army said on Friday that it had “extracted lessons” and was investigating reports on “harm to civilians”, after the United Nations announced the killing of about 800 people while trying to obtain aid in Gaza since late May.
In a statement, the army stated that “in the wake of incidents during which damage was reported to civilians who reached aid distribution facilities, in -depth tests were conducted … and instructions were issued to the forces in the field after the lessons were extracted,” adding that the accidents are under review.
The Israeli army added that “the American Civil Organization (Gaza Humanitarian Corporation) is allowed to distribute aid to the residents of Gaza independently, and it works near the new distribution areas to ensure distribution along with the continued operational activities of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.”
He continued, “Within the framework of this effort, the Israeli army forces recently worked to reorganize the area by installing fences, setting signs, opening additional roads, and other measures.”
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“We have documented 798 people, including 615 in the vicinity of the centers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”, from the start of the Foundation until the work of the Foundation until the seventh of July, “said Ravenna Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, said at a press conference in Geneva.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing aid parcels on May 26, after more than two months of the comprehensive Israeli ban to enter aid despite warnings of the danger of starvation.
She added to reporters in Geneva that 183 other people were killed “most likely to aid caravans” run by the United Nations and other relief organizations.
“This means that about 800 people were killed while trying to get aid,” she continued, explaining that “the majority of injuries are shot.”
But the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which confirmed Thursday that it had been distributed so far “more than 69 million meals”, and denied the occurrence of fatal shooting incidents in the vicinity directly to the auxiliary distribution points it runs.
The United Nations Commission reported that it was based in its numbers on a group of sources, such as information from Gaza hospitals, cemeteries, families, Palestinian health authorities, NGOs, and their partners on the ground.
Shamdasani added that most of the injuries to the Palestinians in the vicinity of the aid distribution centers, which were recorded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since May 27, were injuries caused by shots.
She said: “We have influenced fear of terrible crimes, and the risk of more of them in places where people lined up to obtain basic supplies, such as food.”
10 of the awaits of aid in Gaza were killed
The civil defense in Gaza reported on Friday that the Israeli raids killed at least 16 people, including ten who were waiting for humanitarian aid.
The Director of Medical Supply in the Civil Defense, Muhammad al -Mughair, explained that the ten dead aids were killed by the Israeli army, near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Six other Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in the vicinity of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the civil defense, which previously reported the killing of seven people on Friday night.
A Palestinian, who spoke to Agence France Presse from southern Gaza, asking not to be identified, “The Israeli forces continue their attacks, causing tremendous destruction, with Israeli tanks stationed near the city of Khan Yunis.”
The eyewitness added: “The situation in the region is still very difficult with heavy fire, launching intermittent air strikes, artillery shelling, bulldozing operations and continuous destruction of the camps for the displaced and agricultural lands in the south, west and north of the Al -Maslakh area” to the south of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli army announces the dismantling of a “terrorist cell” in Khan Yunis
In the context, the Israeli army said in a statement that it had dismantled in recent days a “terrorist cell” in Khan Yunis, and destroyed infrastructure and export “weapons and military equipment.”
The statement added that the army was killed earlier this week as a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement named Fadl Abu Al -Atta in the Al -Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, in addition to an element of the movement.
According to the army, Abu Al -Atta coordinated “numerous attacks” against the Israeli forces and participated in the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.
