18 February 2024, 12:14 GMTUpdated 1 hour agoVideo caption, Watch: Within Nasser clinic as Israeli forces release raidThe Global Well being Group has mentioned Gaza’s Nasser clinic has ceased to serve as following an Israeli raid.Israel Protection Drive (IDF) troops entered the advanced on Thursday, pronouncing intelligence indicated hostages taken via Hamas have been being held there.The WHO mentioned it had now not been allowed to go into the web site to evaluate the location.Israel has been focusing its marketing campaign in opposition to Hamas within the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis and has indicated it is going to proceed south to Rafah.”Nasser clinic in Gaza isn’t practical anymore, after a week-long siege adopted via the continued raid,” head of the WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, posted on X, previously Twitter.”Each the day past and the day earlier than, the WHO group used to be now not authorized to go into the clinic to evaluate the prerequisites of the sufferers and significant scientific wishes, regardless of attaining the clinic compound to ship gas along companions,” he mentioned.”There are nonetheless about 200 sufferers within the clinic. A minimum of 20 wish to be urgently referred to different hospitals to obtain well being care; scientific referral is each affected person’s proper.”The Hamas-run well being ministry in Gaza says handiest 4 scientific workforce have been left within the clinic looking to handle the remainder sufferers.One supply within the clinic, who didn’t wish to be named, advised BBC Information that 11 sufferers had died because of interruptions within the provide of electrical energy and oxygen, and that a number of docs were arrested.The previous day, the Israeli army mentioned its troops were advised to stay the clinic operating and that meals and water were delivered. Requested in regards to the state of the clinic this morning, a military spokesman mentioned handiest that they have been checking.Combating has raged across the Nasser web site for weeks. Israel has again and again claimed Hamas is the usage of hospitals, in conjunction with colleges, as operational bases.The Israeli army says it has killed about 20 Hamas warring parties and seized a lot of guns within the house of the clinic. “Over the last day, dozens of terrorists have been eradicated and massive amounts of guns have been seized,” the IDF mentioned.A minimum of 1,200 other folks have been killed all over assaults in Israel via Hamas-led gunmen on 7 October ultimate 12 months.In reaction, Israel introduced an army marketing campaign within the Gaza Strip. Greater than 28,400 Palestinians, most commonly ladies and kids, had been killed and greater than 68,000 wounded because the conflict started, in step with the Hamas-run well being ministry.It added that a minimum of 127 Palestinians had been killed and 205 others injured prior to now 24 hours.”The development in the previous couple of days [is] now not truly very promising however, as I all the time repeat, we will be able to all the time stay constructive and can all the time stay pushing,” mentioned Sheik Mohammed, talking at a gathering of worldwide leaders on the Munich Safety Convention on Saturday.Israeli Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned he despatched negotiators following a request from US President Joe Biden, however added they didn’t go back for additional discussions as a result of Hamas’s calls for have been “delusional”.Hamas has blamed Israel for a loss of development in attaining a ceasefire deal.Mr Netanyahu has additionally reiterated the Israeli executive is continuous to push its floor invasion of Gaza additional south, taking within the house of Rafah, regardless of world force now not to take action with out first having a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians who fled there all over the early days of the conflict.Some 1.5 million persons are in Rafah, just about the border with Egypt, after being advised via Israeli forces to hunt protection there whilst Hamas goals have been attacked in northern, then central, Gaza.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday reiterated his opposition to any pressured displacement of Palestinians into Egypt’s Sinai wilderness. In a telephone name with French President Emmanuel Macron, each leaders agreed as an alternative at the “necessity of the swift development of a ceasefire”, in step with a abstract. Mr Sisi has lengthy maintained that the one resolution is an unbiased state for Palestinians.Video caption, Watch: Tel Aviv protesters name on Netanyahu to resignHowever, on Sunday, Mr Netanyahu introduced that his executive had unanimously voted to officially oppose what it referred to as the “unilateral reputation” of Palestinian statehood.He mentioned this type of settlement will have to be reached thru direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.”Israel rejects outright world dictates referring to an enduring accord with the Palestinians. An accord, will have to or not it’s reached, will handiest come thru direct negotiations between the edges, with out preconditions,” a central authority observation mentioned.
