At least 15 people were killed and 50 others wounded.
Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people.Footage from the scene showed at least a dozen bloodied casualties strewn across the ground near an ambulance.At least 15 people were killed and 50 others wounded, the Hamas-run health authorities said Friday.
A spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, who was at Al-Shifa Hospital, said that Israel was responsible for the attack. "When the ambulances moved towards the south, the occupation targeted the ambulances in multiple locations, including on the gate of Al-Shifa medical compound," he said.The ICRC confirmed to CNN it received a request to accompany the convoy prior to it leaving.
It is located in one of the most densely populated areas on earth, the Gaza Strip, which is being pounded and encircled by the Israeli military. More than 9100 people have been killed in Israeli attacks is the Strip since October 7, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, which drew from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Medical staff at Al-Shifa are exhausted, and low fuel stocks have plunged wards into darkness, cutting off basic functions like oxygen generation.
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