THE Big BIBI LIE - No HELP offered to Besieged Hospital

Bibi made false statements about not bombing around hospitals when photographs CLEARLY show bombing near hospitals and even directly adjacent to the hospital building!  Bibi also LIES about having offered adequate aid to help patients and staff and babies trapped at hospitals under siege!  After speaking to the press, staff at al-Shifa hospital confirm no offer of help came from Israel authorities.

Video NBC Broadcast | 12 Nov 2023 BIBI Lies LIVE about Hospital - 

In an interview with Meet the Press, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks about Israel's war with Hamas and says "it's too early to say" who will govern Gaza after the war during an interview.  [Israel drops off a token amount of fuel in an apparent photo-op move]

• Israel-Hamas war live updates: Deaths reported at Gaza’s largest hospital as WHO loses contact with it

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza had “refused” his country's offer of fuel last night. The hospital suspended operations because of a lack of fuel.

Updated Nov. 12, 2023, 10:21 PM PST | NBC News

What we know

• The World Health Organization said it lost communication with contacts at the embattled Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The facility has come under fire and appeared surrounded by Israeli forces.

• Multiple babies and five people in intensive care have died at the hospital, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that Al-Shifa hospital had "refused" an offer of fuel from his country. NBC News has not been able to verify that with hospital officials. [see BELOW--hospital officials say NO] Netanyahu also said there "could be" a deal to free hostages held by Hamas.

• Arab and Islamic leaders met for a summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday. They demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, unconditional delivery of humanitarian aid and international protection for Palestinians.

• GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie today visited Israel, where he visited a kibbutz that was destroyed Oct. 7 and met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and families of the hostages.

• More than 1.6 million people have been displaced in Gaza, and health officials there say more than 11,000 have been killed. Israel says 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, with 239 people still held hostage in Gaza.

• NBC News’ Keir Simmons, Raf Sanchez, Erin McLaughlin, Josh Lederman, Matt Bradley, Hala Gorani, Jay Gray and Chantal Da Silva are reporting from the region.

Sunday, November 12, 2023

7:40 PM

independent.co.uk

Israel claims it offered evacuations and fuel to besieged Gaza hospital

Josh Marcus | independent.co.uk |

Israeli officials said on Sunday they had offered fuel and evacuation assistance to Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, where operations were suspended Saturday amid dwindling fuel supplies and an alleged Israeli bombardment on the facility, the territory’s largest hospital. Health officials in Gaza deny receiving any assistance, while Israel denies besieging al-Shifa.

"We’ve called to evacuate all the patients from that hospital, and 100 or so have already been evacuated," Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN.

"There’s no reason why we can’t just take the patients out of there rather than letting Hamas use it."

The day before, IDF spokesman rear admiral Daniel Hagari said hospital staff was working with the Israeli military to evacuate out babies in the facility in desperate need of care.

“We’re speaking directly and regularly with the hospital staff,” he said. “The staff of Shifa Hospital has requested that tomorrow we will help the babies in the pediatric department to get to a safer hospital. We will provide the assistance needed.”

Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila, meanwhile, told Al Jazeera that the IDF is “not evacuating people from hospitals; instead they are forcibly evicting the wounded onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death”. A Gaza health ministry spokesperson told the broadcaster, “It is absolutely impossible to evacuate those wounded.”

Three babies in al-Shifa’s intensive care unit have already died amid the disruptions to care at the hospital, according to the Gaza ministry of health. Two died overnight between Friday and Saturday when generators shut down after a nearby shell strike, and a third died Saturday.

Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, a doctor at al-Shifa, told Reuters that medical staff, unable to incubate babies using normal equipment, have resorted to using a trickle of power to turn air conditioning systems to warm.

“We are expecting to lose more of them day by day,” he said

Both Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and the World Health Organisation said Sunday they had lost communications with their contacts inside al-Shifa.

“Over the past 48 hours, Al-Shifa Hospital – which is the largest medical complex in Gaza – has been reportedly attacked multiple times, leaving several people dead and many others injured.” the group wrote in statement. “The intensive care unit suffered damage from bombardment, while areas of the hospital where displaced people were sheltering have also been damaged. An intubated patient reportedly died when electricity was at one point cut.”

In a separate interview with NBC News, the Israeli leader described other alleged gestures of goodwill at al-Shifa, where thousands of Palestinians sheltered to escape fighting elsewhere in the densely occupied enclave.

“We offered actually, last night, to give them enough fuel to operate the hospital, operate the incubators and so on, because we have, obviously, no battle with patients or civilians at all,” he said. [PHOTOS INDICATE OTHERWISE--BOMBING AROUND AND ON HOSPITAL GROUNDS]

“They refused it,” he added.

The Israeli military said it placed 300 litres of fuel at the entrace to al-Shifa, but that Hamas blocked the delivery.

"The occupation’s claims of refusing to receive 300 litres of diesel fuel are lies and slander, and all departments are closed due to running out of fuel, except for the emergency department,” Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa, told Qatar’s Al Araby TV.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday morning it hadn’t confirmed any evacuations.

Those inside al-Shifa have said the hospital has been struck with Israeli gunfire and explosives. Israel denies targeting the hospital directly, which it alleges is being used in part as a Hamas command post. The militant group denies this.

“There are clashes between IDF troops and Hamas terrorist operatives around the hospital,” Colonel Moshe Tetro, an Israeli Defence Ministry official, said in a video statement on Saturday. “There is no shooting at the hospital and there is no siege.”

Palestinian officials have reportedly paused negotiations over releasing Israeli hostages because of the situation at al-Shifa, according to Reuters.

On Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said al-Quds Hospital, Gaza’s second largest, was “no longer operational” because it was out of power. The group also said Israeli tanks and military vehicles surrounded the facility on Saturday.

An estimated 500 patients are inside the hospital.

“The hospital was left alone under relentless bombardment, which threatened the lives of patients and health workers,” PRC spokeperson Nebal Farsakh said in a video statement.

Dr Fadel Naim of al-Ahli Hospital said in a post on X his facility is the only functioning hopsital left in northern Gaza.

“The injuries continue to pour into Al-Ahli Hospital, as it remains the ONLY functioning hospital receiving casualties from #Gaza and its north,” he wrote. “Till now, hundreds of injuries have arrived, overwhelming the hospital’s capacity!”

“Currently, we are about to perform a surgery on a 20-year-old woman, five months pregnant, who was injured by shrapnel from a missile in her abdomen,” he wrote in another post. “Due to the absence of an obstetrician at the hospital, a general surgeon will conduct the operation.”

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he believed Israel’s claims that Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes, but said he hopes that fighting doesn’t occur at medical facilities.

“There is plenty of open source information to indicate that Hamas uses lots of different civilian institutions, including hospitals, to store weapons, for command and control, to house its fighters,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl.

“That being said, Jon, we do not want to see a firefight in a hospital where innocent people, helpless people, people seeking medical care, are caught in the crossfire,” he said.

The Biden administration official added the US has an “active” dialogue with Israel about protecting civilian lives.

In the last 36 days, 137 attacks against health infrastructure in Gaza have occured, killing 521 people, including 16 health workers, according to the WHO.

Striking hospitals during war is against international law, though there are exceptions for facilities being used to carry out acts “harmful to the enemy”.

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Premature babies die as Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital loses power amid alleged IDF attacks

Israel denies bombarding major Gaza hospital — with a large neonatal care facility — that doubles as a refugee shelter

Josh Marcus San Francisco | The Independent UK

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Gaza’s largest hospital suspends operations under siege

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At least two babies have died in Gaza’s largest hospital as a result of downed electricity, as Israel continues to allegedly bombard the al-Shifa hospital, multiple sources said on Saturday.

"As a result of the lack of electricity, we can report that the neonatal intensive care unit has stopped working. Two premature infants have died, and there is a real risk to the lives of 37 other premature infants,” Physicians for Human Rights Israel said in a statement, describing the al-Shifa hospital as “besieged.”

“The picture we are now seeing at Shifa is no longer of a humanitarian catastrophe – it is a collective death sentence,” the Israeli’s doctors group added.

Dr Mohammed Obeid, a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) surgeon working out of the hospital, shared a smiliar account, according to a recording released by the aid group.

“We have two neonate patients who died actually because the incubator is not working because there is no electricity,” he said. “We can see the smoke around the hospital. They hit everything around the hospital. And they hit the hospital many times.”

Israel denied targeting the hospital, but said it’s engaged in fighting with Hamas in the area.

“There are clashes between IDF troops and Hamas terrorist operatives around the hospital,” Colonel Moshe Tetro, an Israeli Defence Ministry official, said in a video statement on Saturday. “There is no shooting at the hospital and there is no siege.”

Dr Obeid said that gunshots into the hospital had left patients with serious wounds, including a gash in the neck and a shot to the abdomen. An estimated 600 inpatients and 37 to 40 premature babies are in the hospital in desperate need of care, he added in the recording.

to be military targets because of international law and norms of war.

The IDF has accused Hamas of using al-Shifa as a command centre, which the group has denied.

“I personally spoke with the director of the hospital,” Col Tetro added. “I told him several times, we can coordinate for anyone who wants to leave the hospital safely.”

The hospital director offered a different account of the situation, telling Al Jazeera that Israel is targeting people inside the hospital, where operations have been suspended.

“We are minutes away from imminent death,” Muhammad Abu Salmiya told the outlet.

“One member of a medical crew who tried to reach the incubator to lend a helping hand to the babies born inside was shot and killed,” he said. “We lost a baby in the incubator, we also lost a young man in the intensive care unit.”

The Gaza health ministry has described the hospital as under “bombardment.”

An AFP live camera feed near the hospital compound captured gunfire and explosions throughout Saturday.

The situation at al-Shifa is the latest in a series of alleged intentional strikes on Gaza hospitals, as the IDF continued its advance into the territory throughout the weekend.

Airstrikes directly hit or landed near four hospitals and a school on Friday, according to Palestinian officials, including al-Shifa hospital, according to Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesperson at the Gaza health ministry.

Multiple bombardments struck al-Shifa on Friday, Dr Adnan Albursh, an orthopedic surgeon at the compound, told NBC News.

"Every time, every minute, we hear bombing around us,” he said. “They bombed the gate, the main gate of the hospital."

Speaking with the broadcaster, Israel blamed one of the explosions at al-Shifa on an errant strike from Palestinian militants, without providing evidence, while Hamas said IDF strikes were responsible, also without providing evidence.

Hospitals in the north of Gaza have turned into “a graveyard,” according to Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza.

“Some of the patients started to die because of the lack of electricity for the ventilators. There aren’t enough doctors to treat everyone,” he told The Washington Post. “They are planning to bury patients in Shifa hospital because there is no space, there is no way to go out, ambulances cannot move anymore.”

He added that strikes on another hospital, the al-Nasr pediatric care facility, forced medical workers to leave babies in incubators behind.

“The medical staff evacuated because of the shelling on the pediatric hospital, and they couldn’t save the babies to take them out, so they left five babies alone in the intensive care on the machines and the ventilators,” he said. “That’s the situation: leaving babies now alone on the ventilators.”

Israeli army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht told an evening briefing yesterday that the army “does not fire on hospitals”.

“If we see Hamas terrorists firing from hospitals we’ll do what we need to do. We’re aware of the sensitivity [of hospitals], but again, if we see Hamas terrorists, we’ll kill them,” he said.

Israeli forces have surrounded multiple hospitals in Gaza City, according to verified videos analysed by the Post.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society told the paper that patients at another hospital, al-Quds, also could not evacuate because of heavy fighting.

On Saturday, the IDF said it killed Ahmed Siam, a Hamas company commander it accused of holding civilians “hostage” in Gaza’s al-Rantisi hospital, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Israel has urged civilians to flee northern Gaza to escape their ground assault, and has opened brief windows for civilians to use highways as humanitarian corridors to move further south.

Humanitarian officials have said the evacuation orders have given civilians impossibly little time, and Israel has allegedly struck buildings and a border crossing in the south of Gaza where civilians have taken shelter.

Thousands of Palestinian civilians are fleeing northern Gaza a day amid the intensifying Israel-Hamas war, in what critics of the conflict have compared to a second “Nakba.”

The Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, is the name Palestinians give to the violent displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages during the fighting surrounding the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948, which resulted in the permanent displacement of more than half the Palestinian population, according to the UN.

“For many Palestinians, this exodus is reminiscent of the original displacement of more than 700,000 people from their towns and villages in 1948,” Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.

Over 70 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3m person population have left their homes since the war began a month ago, according to the Associated Press.

Around 700,000 people are living in roughly 150 UN buildings in the Gaza Strip, nearly 50 of which have been damaged in the fighting, including by Israeli air strikes.

Many of those fleeing northern Gaza now are descendants of those originally expelled during the fighting in 1948, which broke out amid the UN partition of British-controlled Palestine calling for the creation of two states. An estimated 70 per cent of current Gaza Strip residents are considered refugees.

From <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-alshifa-hospital-israel-hamas-b2445799.html>

Heavy fighting rages near main Gaza hospital and people trapped inside say they cannot flee

Najib Jobain And Samy Magdy

Associated Press

Published: November 12, 2023 at 12:59 AM

Updated: November 12, 2023 at 10:35 PM

From <https://www.ksat.com/news/world/2023/11/12/heavy-fighting-rages-near-main-gaza-hospital-as-netanyahu-dismisses-calls-for-cease-fire/>

11 Nov 2023 |Today’s key developments in the Israel-Gaza war

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By Washington Post Staff

Here are the biggest news items from the Israel-Gaza war on Nov. 11.

Israeli forces closed in on hospitals near the front lines of their advance in Gaza City on Friday, forcing their evacuation, while others came under bombardment overnight, according to videos verified by The Washington Post. Doctors Without Borders urged the protection of hospitals and called on “the Israeli government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system.”

Desperate conditions at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza City, continued to worsen Saturday, with Doctors Without Borders saying it has no food, water or electricity. The group reported that several patients, including two premature infants, died without power for generators and incubators.

The Israel Defense Forces said it would allow the transfer of babies from al-Shifa to a “safer” medical facility Sunday. The hospital has been under siege in recent days. Israeli forces claim that a headquarters for Hamas militants is below the medical complex. The director of the Gaza Health Ministry said moving the infants is not an option.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied growing international calls for a cease-fire, saying in a televised address Saturday that Israel would continue its war against Hamas “with all our force.” A cease-fire would only happen with the release of the 239 hostages held by militants in Gaza, he said.

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah said Saturday his Lebanese Shiite militia would to continue pressuring Israel’s northern border, and he cited an “upgrade” to operations in the area.

Israeli leaders warned Hezbollah fighters to stay out of the war. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a Saturday news conference that “Hezbollah is playing with fire.” He warned that Beirut residents could find themselves in a “situation” similar to that in Gaza if Hezbollah stepped into the conflict.

The death toll in Gaza surpassed 11,000, with at least 27,490 wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry said it would not be able to accurately update its tally Saturday. Israel’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, lowered its death toll report, saying that at least 1,200 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. An estimated 5,400 people have been wounded.

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Smotrich to oversee war economic council; says ‘we failed’ to protect south

Finance minister says he has ordered authorities to revisit priorities of budget allocations; Tax Authority offering small grants to those displaced internally

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Sharon Wrobel 15 October 2023 | Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-to-oversee-war-economic-council-says-we-failed-to-protect-south/

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head up a new council to oversee economic activity during the Israel-Gaza war, his ministry announced on Sunday along with the Prime Minister’s Office.

The statement said the committee would oversee all civilian economic matters. It is slated to hold its first meeting at noon on Monday in Jerusalem.

Based on a government decision, the committee is authorized to discuss war-related civilian issues including, but not limited to, the economic impact on private companies and the public sector, the rehabilitation of Gaza border communities and ensuring continued functionality of civilian services.

The successor to a panel originally created in June to tackle Israel’s soaring cost of living and chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Ministerial Committee for Social and Economic Affairs will now fall under Smotrich’s purview.

Ministers Gideon Sa’ar and Chili Tropper of National Unity, Yoav Kisch of Likud and Uriel Buso and Yaakov Margi of Shas will be granted seats on the committee, and Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton of National Unity will be an observer. 

...At a press conference on Sunday, Smotrich said he has instructed government authorities to change the order of priorities in terms of budget allocation.

“All the budgets that have not yet been paid and committed are being examined, including the coalition budgets. Some of the funds have already been diverted,” said Smotrich.

he finance minister said he was pained by Israel’s enormous security failures leading up to and during the Hamas attack, adding: “I take responsibility for what has happened and what will happen. We have to admit with pain and with a bowed head — we failed. The country’s leadership and the security system failed to maintain the security of our people.”

Asked by a reporter if he might resign over such failures, Smotrich said: “There will be enough time for soul-searching, and perhaps score-settling.” He said among matters that would need looking into would be the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2005 Gaza Disengagement.

Also on Sunday, Israel’s Tax Authority opened up applications for an estimated NIS 80 million ($20 million) of monetary assistance grants for residents of Gaza border communities who were evacuated or chose to leave in the period of time since Hamas launched its mass assault on October 7.

...Tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced internally since the war began with Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught against southern Israel, in which 1,500-2,000 terrorists burst across the border and killed over 1,300 Israelis, most of them civilians.

The evacuation of Sderot — a city of some 30,000 on the Gaza border — is almost completed. Residents of communities less than 4 kilometers from the Gaza border have also been evacuated, and evacuations are ongoing in communities 4-7 kilometers from the Gaza border.

Along the northern border, many residents have also chosen to leave towns that have come under rocket and mortar fire from both Syria and Lebanon. The local council of Metula, near the border with Lebanon, advised its close to 2,000 residents to relocate.

The IDF said Sunday that it was “isolating the area” up to 4 kilometers from the Lebanon border, instructing non-residents not to enter, and telling any residents still living in communities up to 2 kilometers from the Lebanon border to remain close to bomb shelters until further notice.

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