ZIONIST FORCES THREATEN TO BOMB GAZA HOSPITAL
Tel Aviv, 26 Ramadan 1435/24 July 2014 (MINA) – Israel’s military has issued an evacuation warning to the main hospital in the Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv regime’s aerial and ground forces step up their attacks on civilian sites across the besieged coastal enclave.
The Israeli military ordered Palestinians in Gaza’s Shifa hospital to evacuate the building on Wednesday evening. This comes as Israeli warplanes and tanks bombed several hospitals across the besieged region over the past few days.
The third floor of the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah was hit by Israeli tank fire on Monday. Palestinian officials say at least five people were killed and dozens wounded in the incident in central Gaza, among them medical staff, Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting Thursday.
Also on Friday, a hospital in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip was struck by Israeli artillery shells.
Senior Palestinian officials have described the multiple attacks as a “brazen violation of international norms.”
Medical workers are now raising the alarm over a humanitarian crisis in Gaza where hospitals are running low on basic medical supplies.
According to figures provided by emergency services, the total number of people killed since the Israeli offensive on July 8 stands at nearly 655. More than 4,200 people have been injured in the attacks.
Fresh Israeli attacks have killed more than two dozen Palestinians, with almost half of them killed due to tank shelling in Khan Yunis. The victims include a journalist who died in an attack on his house in Gaza’s Shojaiya neighborhood. Israeli jets have also bombed a mosque and Gaza’s power plant.
A professor at Islamic University of Gaza says Israel’s ongoing attacks on Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip are ethnic cleansing of these people. Hani al-Basoos also says Gaza is facing a humanitarian crisis amid a shortage of basic supplies. (T/E01/IR)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
