Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Patients forced out of Gaza’s European hospital after Israel's evacuation order

from PressTV

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says patients at the European hospital near Khan Yunis are being transferred to nearby medical centers following an Israeli evacuation order covering much of the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city.

The PRCS made the announcement on Tuesday, a day after the Israeli military ordered Palestinians in the eastern half of Khan Yunis and a large swath of Gaza’s south-eastern corner to leave.

The order suggested that the occupation troops are likely to launch a new ground assault in Khan Yunis.

Israeli forces fought for weeks in the southern Gaza city earlier this year but withdrew, claiming to have destroyed battalions of the Hamas resistance group there.

Jeremy Hickey, an anesthesiologist with the charity Fajr Scientific who was working at the European Hospital, told Al Jazeera TV news channel that staff were notified that the facility needed to evacuate...

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