Martin Griffiths, the UN’s chief of humanitarian affairs, has been reacting to the reports of what is happening at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
“I’m appalled by reports of military raids in Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza,” Griffiths posted to X (formerly Twitter).
“The protection of newborns, patients, medical staff and all civilians must override all other concerns. Hospitals are not battlegrounds.”
As we’ve been report, a journalist inside the hospital has told the BBC that the IDF has been questioning people in the facility and is now ordering men to assemble in the hospital courtyard.
Israel’s military says it is carrying out a “targeted operation” at the hospital. It accuses Hamas of running a command centre under the hospital, which Hamas denies.