The Israel Army announced Thursday that it has begun to give “initial notices” to medical officials and humanitarian organizations to evacuate Ciudad de Gaza, within the framework of the expansion of the military offensive in the strip.
“As part of the preparations for the transfer of the population from the city of Gaza to the South for its protection, the CoGat coordination and linking direction-Israeli military authority in charge of the Palestinian territories-has made the first alerts to doctors and international organizations,” says a statement.
Israeli authorities have emphasized medical teams “that hospital infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip is adapting to host patients and injured, along with an increase in the entry of necessary medical equipment, according to the requests of international organizations.”
The Israel Defense Forces (FDI) have shared the recording of a call in which a COGAT member warned a health official “about the possibility of the army to enter the city of Gaza” and the previous “complete evacuation” of the town. “This requires that a plan to transfer medical equipment from north to the south be prepared,” he said.
“Thus, you can provide care to all patients in the south of the strip and prepare hospitals to receive patients who come from the north,” he said, according to the aforementioned recording, in which he emphasizes that “it is important that they receive this information from an official source.” In addition, he has indicated that he will provide “a place to be, be it a campaign hospital or any other hospital.”
After that, the Gazati Ministry of Health has rejected the request of the Israeli authorities to transfer resources of the health system of the city of Gaza to the south of the enclave, while it has highlighted the “importance of maintaining the provision of health services as a right guaranteed by all laws for all citizens, wherever they reside.”
Thus, he has expressed “his rejection to any measure that weakens what remains of the health system after the systematic destruction carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities.” “This measure would deprive more than one million people from their right to receive treatment and put the lives of residents, patients and injured,” he said through his Telegram channel.
Finally, the ministerial portfolio has called for “all international and UN institutions” work to protect what remains from the health system and provide all the necessary resources to save lives. “
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered on the eve to the IDF that “the deadlines” to take control of the latest terrorist bastions and guarantee the defeat of Hamas “in the Gaza Strip, the scene of an offensive that started in October 2023.
The Netanyahu government approved on August 8 the intensification of operations and in the last hours it has finished profile the concrete plans, which contemplate the call to ranks of tens of thousands of reservists. It also provides the massive displacement of the inhabitants of the city of Gaza.
