ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 64

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IDF publishes audio of officers telling Gaza hospital staff how to safely evacuate southward

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent.

People stand outside the emergency ward of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. (Khader Al Zanoun/AFP)
People stand outside the emergency ward of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. (Khader Al Zanoun/AFP)

The Israel Defense Forces publishes recordings of calls between a senior officer in the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and hospital staff at the Shifa, Rantisi, and Nasr hospitals in northern Gaza, instructing them how to safely evacuate toward the southern part of the Strip.

Palestinians have been able to leave the three hospitals, either by foot or in ambulances, after the IDF secured routes that lead to the Salah a-Din road, which serves as a humanitarian corridor for several hours during the day.

The IDF has accused Hamas of using Gaza’s hospitals for terror purposes, including situating its main headquarters under Shifa.

“Anyone who wishes to move from the hospital and toward the hospital, Al-Wehda Street, east of the hospital, is open,” says a senior officer in COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration, to an official at Shifa.

“There are no Israeli forces on the eastern side of the hospital,” the officer says.

 

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