By Athena Papakosta

The president of the United States Joe Biden says Gaza’s largest hospital “must be protected” and calls for “less intrusive actions” by Israeli forces.

The statements of the spokesman of the US Department of State, Matthew Miller, who repeated the words of the National Security Adviser of the White House, Jake Sullivan, have also been preceded, that the US does not want to see armed conflicts in hospitals that endanger the lives of civilians. .

The United States continues to offer strong support to Israel but is slowly hardening its stance toward it as Washington grows increasingly uncomfortable with the extremely high death toll in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, stating a few 24 hours ago that “many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza” adding that “much more must be done to protect civilians and ensure that humanitarian aid reaches them”.

According to the World Health Organization, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Al Shifa Hospital it turns into a cemetery since, as he points out, in its perimeter “there are corpses that cannot be buried or taken to the morgue” since the conflicts rage around it.

Israel, however, insists that the policies infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, especially the health facilities are used by Hamas and announces that “Yafka” of the Palestinian Islamist organization was found in the basement of Radisi Children’s Hospital with Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli armed forces, adding that “explosive vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs and other weaponry” were found at this Hamas operations center. He added, in fact, that they found “indications that suggest that Hamas was holding hostages” in the hospital in question.

As the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, explained on Sunday, giving interviews to a series of American Media, “every civilian life that is lost is a tragedy”, but placing the blame on Hamas which, as he said, “is preventing civilians from leaving the business zones’. The argument “Hamas uses civilians as human shields” was repeated by the IDF spokesman, pointing out that “the war is against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza.”

The eyes of the international community remain firmly on the front lines, on hospitals, with calls to protect nursing facilities growing as calls for a ceasefire to allow trapped workers, patients and displaced people to flee the battlefield.

Hamas, for its part, with the Israeli military cordon tightening further and the Israeli armed forces now declaring that the Islamist Palestinian organization has lost control of Gaza City, says a group of mediators is ready to release up to 70 women and children who are being held hostage on the condition that a five-day ceasefire is declared which will allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Gaza Strip. But Israel insists that “there are no pauses” with the country’s prime minister visiting military bases in the south again and stressing that “we will go until total victory”.