Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City is 'totally surrounded and bombardments are going on nearby', the hospital's director, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, said.
Heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas trapped thousands of people in Gaza's hospitals on Sunday, as medics and aid workers warned patients will die in the crippled facilities unless there is a pause in the battle.
Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the biggest in the territory, is "totally surrounded and bombardments are going on nearby", the hospital's director, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, said in a statement late on Saturday. "We can see actually the smoke around the hospital. They hit everything around the hospital and they hit the hospital many times," he said.
The Israeli military has denied strikes or a siege at Al-Shifa hospital, and has repeatedly accused Hamas of using medical facilities as command centres and hideouts.The Israeli army also said it would "provide the assistance needed" to help "babies in the paediatric department to get to a safer hospital" on Sunday, at the request of Al-Shifa staff.Twenty of Gaza's 36 hospitals are "no longer functioning", according to the UN's humanitarian agency.
Israel's campaign in response to wipe out Hamas has killed more than 11,000 people, also mostly civilians and thousands of them children, according to the latest figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.The families of Israeli hostages spoke of their agony at a rally in Tel Aviv Saturday.
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