18 November 2023 at 09:58 IDF to news: Denies that they asked for evacuation The Israeli Defense Forces IDF writes to news via its press service that they have “accepted the hospital director at Al Shifa’s request to evacuate along the safe route”. Hospital director Muhammad Abu Salmiya has told AFP that he was called by the IDF and “instructed to evacuate the patients, the injured and health personnel and that they should move on foot towards the sea”. According to AFP and Al Jazeera, this message must have been repeated over the hospital’s loudspeaker system, with a time limit of one hour for the evacuation. Several hundred people are a little before 10 about to leave the hospital, AFP reports, citing Palestinian health authorities. Children born prematurely are among the patients who cannot leave the hospital, and the numbers vary from 120 to 450, reports the AFP news agency. The IDF now denies to news that they have requested any evacuation of health personnel, patients or the injured. – Medical personnel will remain inside the hospital to care for patients who cannot be evacuated, the IDF writes.
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