The fighting at the hospital comes as Israel faces growing international pressure. (document)
Fighting inside hospitals – U.S. President Joe Biden again told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that he should not take military action in Rafah without a credible and enforceable plan to protect Palestinian civilians, the White House said action.
Thursday’s call between the two leaders was the second time in less than a week that Biden warned Netanyahu not to enter the southern Gaza Strip without a plan to ensure the safety of the roughly 1 million people who have taken refuge there.
They also discussed ongoing hostage negotiations, with Biden pledging to continue working around the clock to help free hostages held captive by Hamas for 132 days, according to a transcript of the call read by the White House.
Israeli forces said Thursday they attacked Gaza’s largest functioning hospital, an incursion that casts new light on the fate of hundreds of patients and medical staff and many displaced Palestinians who have sought refuge there to escape the war. alarm.
The fighting at the hospital comes as Israel faces growing international pressure to show restraint after vowing to launch an offensive into Rafah, the last relatively safe place in Gaza.
Earlier this month, Biden said Israel’s military response in Gaza was “excessive” and expressed serious concern about rising civilian deaths in the Palestinian enclave.
The war began on October 7 when Iran-backed Hamas militants entered Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 253 hostages, according to Israeli statistics.
Israel’s air and ground offensive has devastated the small and crowded Gaza Strip, killing 28,663 people, mostly civilians, and forcing almost all of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents to leave their homes, according to health authorities.
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