"All of our teams are in extreme danger at the moment and are completely immobilised," the humanitarian organisation told Reuters yesterday, adding one of its staff was killed when Israeli tanks pushed back suddenly into areas around alAmal and Nasser hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Palestinians who fled the raid described days of heavy fighting, mass arrests and forced marches past dead bodies to the Associated Press.
"From time to time, the tank would fire a shell," Kareem Ayman Hathat, who lived about 100 metres from the hospital, told AP. "It was to terrorise us." Israel claims that the hospitals are used to harbour fighters while Hamas denies using the facilities for military ends and accuses Israel of war crimes.
On Saturday, Hamas-run media alleged that 19 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza City and several others wounded at a humanitarian aid distribution point, a claim Israel has denied. According to Hamas, the killings occurred while the victims were waiting for aid lorries at the Kuwait roundabout, where they were reportedly struck by tank fire and shells from the Israeli occupation army.
Footage from AFPTV showed wounded people arriving at al-Ahli hospital, some being transported by donkey cart. "There were very serious injuries, some of whom were injured by shrapnel. The reality is tragic, difficult and challenging," Mahmud Basal, a spokesperson for the civil defence department in Gaza, told Agence France-Presse.
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