About 8,000 people were evacuated from al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza yesterday, around which clashes are raging, but about 300 others remain there, including the elderly, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said today. Crescent (IFCR).

“The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is beyond catastrophic“, said the representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFCR), Tommaso Della Longa, at a press conference in Geneva.

“8,000 IDPs who had taken refuge in our Palestinian Red Crescent hospital in Khan Younis, Al-Amal, left the hospital yesterday (Monday)“, he said.

“There are still around 100 elderly and disabled people who have not been able to leave the hospital, 80 patients and 100 staff and volunteers. They continue to be inside,” he said.

The Gaza Strip is under siege and devastated after four months of war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas, a conflict sparked by the Islamist group’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, which killed at least 1,160 people. according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.

Israel’s response to Gaza has claimed the lives of 27,585 people, the vast majority civilians, according to Hamas’ health ministry.

Khan Younis, a key city in the southern part of the Palestinian enclave where, according to Israel, the heads of the Palestinian Islamist organization are located, has been reduced to almost ruins.

For more than two weeks, according to Della Longa, merciless clashes have been raging around the al-Amal hospital, while it “has been hit several times”, such as last Friday, as a result of which the head of the Youth Department lost her life and Palestinian Red Crescent Volunteers.

Al-Amal Hospital is one of the most important in the city, along with Nasser Medical Center, which is also at the center of conflicts.

“The Israeli occupation tightens its siege on the Nasser medical complex and constantly targets its perimetersaid Ashraf Al-Kindra, a spokesman for the Hamas Health Ministry.

According to him, 300 members of the medical staff, 450 wounded and 10,000 displaced are inside Nasser Hospital, where there are shortages of food, as well as medicines, mainly anesthetics.

In addition, he stated, the generators there should be stopped “within four days due to lack of fuel».