Tens of thousands of people have crammed into the grounds of Gaza City’s main hospital.
Palestinians are struggling to flee from areas of Gaza targeted by the Israeli military while grappling with a water and medical supplies shortage ahead of an expected land offensive, a week after Hamas’ attack in Israel.
The Israeli military said “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians had already heeded the warning and headed south. It said Palestinians could travel within Gaza without being harmed along two main routes from 10am to 4pm local time BST.With special rabbinic approval, workers at a military base in central Israel continued with the task of identifying the bodies of the Israelis and foreign nationals who were killed, most of them civilians. Work is normally halted on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath.
Health ministry official Dr Medhat Abbas said: “People think this is the only safe space after their homes were destroyed and they were forced to flee.Families in cars, trucks and donkey carts packed with possessions crowded a main road heading away from Gaza City as Israeli air strikes continued to hammer the 25-mile long territory, where basic necessities like food, fuel and drinking water were running low because of a complete Israeli siege.
“The situation inside the hospital is miserable in every sense of the word,” he said. “The operating rooms don’t stop.” The Gaza health ministry said on Saturday that more than 2,200 people have been killed in the territory, including 724 children and 458 women.
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