Patients and staff have fled Gaza’s European Hospital in Khan Younis after the Israeli army ordered residents in nearby areas to evacuate, health officials say, despite the IDF insisting that those in the hospital do not need to leave and will not be targeted.
“The hospital staff and the patients decided to already evacuate themselves,” says World Health Official spokesperson Rik Peeperkorn, adding that just three patients remain. “We plea the European Gaza hospital will be spared, will be non-damaged.”
An Israeli defense official says that although evacuation orders had been issued for the area in which the hospital is located, staff and patients were told they could stay.
“We didn’t give them any order to evacuate. So patients and the medical teams can stay over there. It’s safe for them,” says Col. Elad Goren of COGAT, the Defense Ministry agency that coordinates with the Palestinians.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which had a medical team in the hospital, including surgeons, is moving its team and patients to a field hospital in Rafah-Mawasi, it says in a statement.
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