Premature Babies Evacuated From Shifa Hospital In Gaza

November 19, 2023 7:02 am

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian health officials say at least 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital and will be transferred to Egypt. A U.N. team said earlier Sunday that 291 patients are left at Shifa Hospital including 32 babies in extremely critical condition after thousands of patients and displaced people left the day before. The Palestinian Red Crescent says the babies will be transferred to a hospital in the Egyptian border city of Rafah. Israel meanwhile signaled that it plans to expand its operations to southern Gaza, where it had told hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to seek refuge early in the war. Israel has long alleged that Hamas maintains a sprawling command post at Shifa, part of its wider accusation that the fighters use civilians as cover.