At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed and dozens were injured after an Israeli air strike with three missiles on a field hospital set up inside the school Khadija in Deir al Balah, in the center of the Gaza StripThe Hamas-controlled Gaza government said on Saturday.
«We condemn in the strongest terms the perpetration of this horrific massacre by the Israeli occupation against a field hospital that provides medical services to dozens of patients and wounded, all civilians,» the government of the enclave denounced in a statement.
Khadija school housed people displaced from other parts of the enclave.
The wounded are transferred Al-Aqsa Hospitallocated in this same area, where medical teams, with few resources, work tirelessly, as confirmed by a spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health to EFE.
«These ongoing massacres by the Israeli occupation come amid a collapsing healthcare system due to the destruction and burning of hospitals, with enormous pressure on medical personnel and what remains of operating rooms due to the shortage of medical supplies,» the enclave’s government said in a statement.
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Furthermore, the text regrets that the border crossing Rafaat the southern tip of the Strip, where the chronically ill and wounded are being sent abroad for treatment, and is demanding the entry of more fuel, essential for the functioning of hospitals.
«We call on the international community to stop the genocidal war and the flow of blood in the Gaza Strip,» he added.
This Saturday, the Army not only intensified its attacks in the center of the Strip, but also in the south, in the city of Jan Yuniswhere in the early morning he ordered the forced evacuation of the southern neighborhoods and asked civilians to move to the area of Mawasi whose perimeter is increasingly limited.
Israel claims that, according to its intelligence services, the Islamist group Hamas has installed «terrorist infrastructure» in the southern humanitarian zone of Mawasi.
According to the UN, these new evacuation orders affect 180,000 Gazans.
In nearly ten months of war, more than 39,000 Gazans have died, most of them women and children, more than 90,000 have been injured and an estimated 10,000 are still trapped under rubble.