One of the biggest human tragedies is unfolding in the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza City, which has been targeted by the Israeli army in the last 24 hours as a Hamas “operations center”.

At least 50,000 people have taken refuge in Al Shifa – among them 2,500 patients, seriously injured, operated on and newborns – but it is being bombed by Israel.

The representative of the Ministry of Health of Gaza stated that staff operations at the hospital complex were halted today because they ran out of fuel due to the Israeli embargo.

“As a result, newborns died inside an incubator, where 45 babies are locatedAshraf Al-Kindra, the health ministry spokesman in Hamas-controlled Gaza, told Reuters.

According to Anadolu and other Arab media, 39 babies died Al-Kindra also reported that two more patients died in the intensive care unitafter the oxygen masks stopped working.

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Yesterday, the International Committee of the Red Cross he underlined that the health system in the Palestinian enclave has reached a “point of no return” and warned that the destruction of hospitals in Gaza must stop because it endangers the lives of thousands of people.

Its general manager WHERE sounded the alarm again yesterday addressing the UN Security Council, stressing that half of the 36 hospitals in the Palestinian enclave are now “not functioning at all” and that “over 250 attacks” have been recorded

According to the Wall Street Journal, Al Shifa hospital authorities yesterday began evacuating the medical center following orders from the Israeli army, which has surrounded the compound where Hamas is believed to have built a major underground command center.

Today, the IDF announced that the army will now kill Hamas fighters who fire inside hospitals, effectively warning of civilian bloodshed.

The representative of the Israeli armed forces, Richard Hecht, admitted that these operations are of a “sensitive nature” and that “it would be easier if Hamas left the hospitals and showed us that clearly.”

Hecht, however, maintained that the Israeli army “takes all possible precautions to ensure that it does not attack people who are being given serum or are being treated for fractures.”