World leaders in New York for United Nations General Assembly vote to recognise Palestinian state
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians pitched amidst damaged buildings in Khan Yunis. PIC/AFP
The Jordanian Field Hospital in the city’s southwestern neighbourhood of Tal al-Hawa received orders from the Israeli military to evacuate on Monday morning, according to a senior health official. The military has already ordered all Palestinians in Gaza City to head south, to the central and southern Gaza Strip. It has told aid workers in private messages that all humanitarian sites, except hospitals, must evacuate.
Dr Muneer al-Boush, director general of the Gaza Health Ministry, said that the hospital has at least 300 patients, as well as medical staff and family members of the patients. The order came as residents reported that troops were approaching the facility, with dozens of families trapped in their homes and shelters around the hospital.
Israeli forces showed no signs of relenting on their new ground offensive in Gaza City on Monday as world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and more countries prepared to join the surge of nations recognising a Palestinian state.
Hundreds of thousands have remained in the city, the territory’s largest and already in ruins from nearly two years of war and struggling with famine. The Israeli military ordered the evacuation on Monday of the Jordanian Hospital, a key health clinic, a Palestinian health official said.
The latest Israeli operation, which started last Tuesday, further escalates the conflict and likely pushes any ceasefire farther out of reach. The Israeli military, which says it wants to “destroy Hamas’s military infrastructure”, hasn’t given a timeline for the offensive, but there were indications it could take months.
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