{"id":275845,"date":"2023-11-18T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275845"},"modified":"2023-11-19T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T10:37:57","slug":"israeli-troops-order-evacuation-of-hospital-in-the-next-hour-over-loudspeakers-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275845","title":{"rendered":"Israeli troops order evacuation of hospital ‘in the next hour’ over loudspeakers – AFP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian \u2013 Nov 18, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israeli troops ordered the evacuation of al-Shifa hospital \u201cin the next hour\u201d over loudspeakers on Saturday, an AFP journalist at the scene reported, as troops combed the facility for Hamas hideouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Al-Shifa hospital \u2013 Gaza\u2019s biggest \u2013 has become the focus of the Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, now entering its seventh week after the October 7 attacks on southern Israel.<\/p>\n

Israel claims Hamas<\/a> operates a base underneath al-Shifa, a charge the militants deny. The United Nations estimated 2,300 patients, staff and displaced Palestinians were sheltering at Al-Shifa before Israeli troops moved in on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Hamas health ministry in Gaza<\/a> has announced dozens of deaths there as a result of power cuts caused by fuel shortages amid intense combat. Israel has made repeated calls for the hospital to be evacuated to the south, however medical professionals say the patients cannot be moved.<\/p>\n

The hospital director, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, told AFP Israeli troops instructed him to ensure \u201cthe evacuation of patients, wounded, the displaced and medical staff, and that they should move on foot towards the seafront\u201d.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Israel Denies ordering evacuation of al-shifa<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, the Israeli army spokesperson denied ordering the excuation of al-Shifa, saying the \u201cIDF responded to the request of the director of Shifa Hospital to allow Gazan citizens who were sheltering in the hospital and who wish to evacuate from Shifa Hospital towards the humanitarian crossing in the Gaza Strip via a secure axis\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Zaqout, the director-general of hospitals in Gaza, reiterated to Al Jazeera: \u201cI categorically deny these false allegations [from the Israeli army] \u2026 I am telling you we were forced to leave by gunpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patients, staff and war evacuees ‘leaving al-Shifa hospital’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Guardian \u2013 Nov 18, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Health officials say many patients, medical staff and those displaced by the ongoing war have left Gaza\u2019s largest hospital, which was taken over by Israeli forces earlier in the week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Palestinian officials and the Israeli military offered conflicting versions about what prompted the mass exodus from al-Shifa hospital, AP reported.<\/p>\n

Health officials say they received an evacuation order from the military on Saturday morning, while the military said it had offered safe passage to those hoping to leave.<\/p>\n

Before the departure, several thousand people, including medical patients in serious condition, were trapped in al-Shifa in dire conditions.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IDF claims the hospital was used as cover for a Hamas command center. Removing patients and staff from the scene means there are no eyewitnesses while the IDF constructs a mock command centre before inviting the media back to inspect it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":275847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275852,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275845\/revisions\/275852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}