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IDF evacuating babies, patients and staff from Gaza hosptial

The Israeli military has insisted there is 'no siege' on Shifa Hospital

November 12, 2023 16:49
SHifa Hospital
Patients and internally displaced people are pictured at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Heavy fighting was raging near Al-Shifa hospital, with Israel saying it had killed dozens of militants and destroyed tunnels that are key to Hamas's capacity to fight. Israel launched an offensive in Gaza after Hamas fighters poured across the heavily militarised border on October 7, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostages. (Photo by Khader Al Zanoun / AFP) (Photo by KHADER AL ZANOUN/AFP via Getty Images)
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(JNS) The IDF has said it is helping with the evacuation of babies, medical staff and patients from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

"There is no siege, I repeat no siege, on Shifa Hospital. The east side of the hospital is open for the safe passage of Gazans who wish to leave the hospital," said IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Saturday night.

"We're speaking directly and regularly with the hospital staff. The staff of Shifa Hospital has requested that tomorrow we will help the babies in the pediatric department to get to a safer hospital. We will provide the assistance needed," he continued.

Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesman, on Sunday tweeted new instructions for residents of the northern Gaza Strip to relocate to the safe zone south across the Wadi Gaza, and also included a self-evacuation guide from Shifa Hospital.