Israeli soldiers on Saturday for the fourth consecutive day of their raid on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza issued an order over loudspeakers to evacuate it “in an hour”, an AFP reporter there said today.

Right now, according to the UN, 2,300 patients, medical staff and displaced persons are inside this hospital complex and the concerns of the international community about their fate have intensified.

Israel says Hamas, which is in power in Gaza, is using the hospital as a military base.

Meanwhile, Israel continues calls to evacuate the hospital heading south, but doctors and medical staff warn that many of the patients cannot be moved.

New warning from Israel to remove civilians from Khan Younes

At the same time, Israel issued a new warning to Palestinians in the southern city of Khan Younes to move away from the fire and approach humanitarian aid. It is yet another sign that the Israeli military plans to attack Hamas in southern Gaza after it surrenders. the north, Reuters comments.

“We are asking people to relocate. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want to see civilians caught in the crossfire,” Mark Regev, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told MSNBC on Friday.

Regev added that Israeli troops should advance into the city to drive Hamas fighters out of underground tunnels and warehouses.

“I’m sure they won’t have to move again” if they move west, he said, addressing the civilians. We are asking them to move to an area where we hope there will be tents and an open hospital.

Dozens dead from overnight attacks

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip continued throughout the night. Twenty-six people were killed when three residential buildings were struck in the central Gaza city of Khan Younes, the director of Nasser Hospital in that city said.

This airstrike, which took place in the Hamad district, also seriously injured 23 people, he told AFP.

At the same time, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, in an Israeli air strike on Al Gufa hospital at night, the director of the hospital was killed and several doctors were also injured. The Palestinian news agency, citing sources, reported that Israeli warplanes launched an air strike against the hospital Al Wafa and the nursing home in Al Zahra area.