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WHO statement on attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital and reported large-scale casualties 

WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.

The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced.

WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. Evacuation orders must be reversed. International humanitarian law must be abided by, which means health care must be actively protected and never targeted.

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அல் அஹ்லி அரபு மருத்துவமனை மீதான தாக்குதல், மற்றும் பெரிய அளவிலான உயிரிழப்புகள் குறித்து WHO அறிக்கை 

காசா பகுதியின் வடக்கில் அல் அஹ்லி அரபு மருத்துவமனை மீதான தாக்குதலை WHO வன்மையாகக் கண்டிக்கிறது. நோயாளிகள், சுகாதாரம் மற்றும் பராமரிப்பு வழங்குபவர்கள் மற்றும் உள்நாட்டில் இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்கள் தங்குமிடத்துடன் மருத்துவமனை செயல்பட்டு வந்தது. ஆரம்ப அறிக்கைகள் நூற்றுக்கணக்கான இறப்புகள் மற்றும் காயமடைந்தோரைக் குறி காட்டுகின்றன.

இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவத்தின் வெளியேற்ற உத்தரவுகளை எதிர்கொள்ளும் காசா பகுதியின் வடக்கில் உள்ள 20 மருத்துவமனைகளில் இதுவும் ஒன்றாகும். தற்போதைய பாதுகாப்பின்மை, பல நோயாளிகளின் ஆபத்தான நிலை மற்றும் ஆம்புலன்ஸ்கள், பணியாளர்கள், சுகாதார அமைப்பு படுக்கை திறன் மற்றும் இடம்பெயர்ந்தவர்களுக்கான மாற்று தங்குமிடம் ஆகியவற்றின் பற்றாக்குறை ஆகியவற்றைக் கருத்தில் கொண்டு வெளியேற்றுவதற்கான உத்தரவை செயல்படுத்துவது சாத்தியமானதல்ல. 

குடிமக்களின் உயிர்ப் பாதுகாப்பு மற்றும் மருத்துவ நிறுவனங்களின் பாதுகாப்புக்கு WHO அவசர அழைப்பு விடுக்கிறது. வெளியேற்ற உத்தரவுகளை திரும்பப் பெற வேண்டும். சர்வதேச மனிதாபிமானச் சட்டம் கடைபிடிக்கப்பட வேண்டும், அதாவது சுகாதாரப் பாதுகாப்பு தீவிரமாகப் பாதுகாக்கப்பட வேண்டும் அவை ஒருபோதும் இராணுவத் தாக்குதல் இலக்காகக் கூடாது.

இவ்வாறு உலக சுகாதார இஸ்தாபனத்தின் கண்டன அறிக்கையில் கோரப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Hundreds killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza hospital, Gaza health authorities say

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi October 17, 2023

Summary

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:

• Hundreds of Palestinians dead at Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital, crammed with patients and displaced people,health authorities in besieged enclave say
• Israel's national security adviser predicts United States will get 'involved' if Gaza war escalates to point where Iran and Hezbollah join in on behalf of Hamas

GAZA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed about 500 Palestinians at a Gaza City hospital crammed with patients and displaced people, health authorities in the besieged enclave said.

The strike was the bloodiest single incident in Gaza since Israel launched an unrelenting bombing campaign against the densely populated territory in retaliation for a deadly cross-border Hamas assault on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7.

It took place on the eve of a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to Israel to show support for the country in its war with Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

Arab countries, Iran and Turkey swiftly condemned the attack. The Palestinian prime minister called it "a horrific crime, genocide" and said countries backing Israel also bore responsibility.

Sources at the Gaza Ministry of Health told Reuters that around 500 Palestinians were killed in the air strike on Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital.

"No place is safe in Gaza anymore, not even U.N. facilities."

Hamas said the bombing mostly killed people left homeless by Israel bombardments, and that the dead included patients, women and children.

"There are scores of dismembered and crushed bodies, baths of blood," said Izzat El-Reshiq, a senior Hamas member.

Video obtained by Reuters showed several full ambulances arriving at another Gaza hospital carrying people injured at Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital. One man was staggering, bleeding heavily from the head. A boy was being carried on a stretcher.

The Israeli military said it did not have any details about the reported bombing, but was checking. It has previously accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as human shields.

In Washington, the Pentagon said it was aware of the reports about the hospital being hit but had no details. The Pentagon, which has sent five C-17 aircraft with military assistance to Israel so far, reiterated that there were no preconditions on the aid being provided and added: "We expect all democracies like Israel to uphold the law of war."

Earlier on Tuesday, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said an Israeli air strike had killed at least six people at one of its schools that has been functioning as a shelter for displaced people.

"This is outrageous and again it shows a flagrant disregard for the lives of civilians," UNRWA said in a social media post. "No place is safe in Gaza anymore, not even U.N. facilities."

Health authorities in Gaza say at least 3,000 people have been killed in Israel's 11-day bombardment since Hamas militants rampaged into Israeli towns and kibbutzes on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,300 people, mainly civilians.

Israel has flattened parts of heavily urbanised Gaza with air strikes, driven around half of its 2.3 million population from their homes and imposed a total blockade on the enclave, halting food, fuel and medical supplies.

Amid the death and destruction, the humanitarian crisis in the enclave worsened as Israeli troops and tanks massed on the border for an expected ground invasion.

Scores of trucks carrying vital supplies for Gaza headed towards the Rafah crossing in Egypt on Tuesday, the only access point to the coastal enclave outside Israeli control, but there was no clear indication that they would be able to enter.

Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Bassam Massoud and Nuha Sharaf in Gaza, Ari Rabinovitch, Dan Williams, Henriette Chacar, Dedi Hayun, Maayan Lubell, Emily Rose, James Mackenzie and John Davison in Jerusalem, Humeyra Pamuk in Tel Aviv, Parisa Hafezi in Dubai, Hatem Maher, Ahmed Tolba and Omar Abdel-Razek in Cairo, Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose, Rami Ayyub and Katharine Jackson in Washington, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations, Writing by Peter Graff and Angus Macswan; editing by Mark Heinrich

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

At least 500 killed in Israeli bombing on Gaza hospital: Health ministry

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 Press TV

At least 500 civilians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes on al-Ahli Baptist Hospital amid the regime's relentless aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the enclave says. 

On Tuesday, the health ministry said Israeli airstrikes on the central Gaza hospital compound killed hundreds of people, mainly women and children.

"Hundreds of victims are still under the rubble," it added.

Thousands of civilians were seeking medical treatment and shelter in the hospital from relentless Israeli airstrikes.

The attack is the deadliest Israeli airstrike in five wars fought since 2008, the Palestinian Civil Defense said.

“The massacre at al-Ahli Arab Hospital is unprecedented in our history. While we’ve witnessed tragedies in past wars and days, but what took place tonight is tantamount to genocide,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal said.

The media office of Hamas described the attack as a "war crime."

"The hospital was housing hundreds of sick and wounded, and people forcibly displaced from their homes" because of other strikes, a statement said.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) condemned the Israeli attack as genocide.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following the Israeli air strike.

Photos from al-Ahli Hospital showed fire engulfing the hospital halls, shattered glass and body parts scattered across the area.

This comes as the humanitarian situation is getting worse by the hour in Gaza, with hospitals facing a collapse.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of an imminent catastrophe in the territory.

The WHO’s director-general strongly condemned the deadly strike on al-Ahli Hospital.

In a post on social media platform X, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for the “immediate protection of civilians” and for the Israeli regime’s “evacuation orders to be reversed.”

Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and Jordan condemned the Israeli airstrike on al-Ahli al-Arab Hospital.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan'ani censured the attack as a brutal act of war crime and genocide.

"The Zionist regime... by committing this heinous and atrocious crime, once again revealed its savagery and inhumanity to the world and proved that it has no slightest adherence to the principles and rules of international law during times of war," he said. 

Several hospitals in Gaza City have become refuges for Palestinians hoping to be spared Israeli bombardments, which began on October 7.

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