LATEST: At least 129 are said to have been killed in several Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Israeli airstrikes are said to have hit the Al Fakhoora school, which belongs to the UN organization UNRWA. Al Jazeera reports. The UN has confirmed that one of the schools in northern Gaza, which was used as a shelter, was hit on Saturday. Many women and children will be among the dead. The UN school is located in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza say at least 50 have been killed in the attack. An Al Jazeera journalist initially reported that around 200 had been killed, but Al Jazeera has not repeated this information. – Getting gruesome pictures The head of the UN aid organization for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, says they get gruesome pictures of many people who have been killed and injured at a school the organization runs in the north of the Gaza Strip. Photo: Said Khatib / AFP UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini writes on X that they receive horrific photos and recordings of many people who have been killed and injured at an UNRWA school in the north of the Gaza Strip. – These attacks cannot become common, they must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait any longer, he writes on social media. Tamara Alrifai, spokesperson for UNRWA, tells Al Jazeera: – I am still waiting for reports directly from my colleagues in Gaza, but what we are seeing is another one of these terrible events, where civilians, people who sought shelter in a protected UN building , pays the price. It is not the first attack on the school. Two weeks ago, 15 people were killed and 54 injured. Israel has reportedly asked hospitals to evacuate the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, the Al Shifa hospital, has reportedly been told to evacuate in one hour, Palestinian health authorities report. Israel denies having given this message. Hundreds are now leaving the hospital on foot, according to the AFP news agency. Picture of Al Shifa Hospital on November 8. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters 450 patients have been evacuated, while 120 remain in the hospital because they are too injured to move, Munir al-Barsh, head of Gaza’s health authorities, told Al Jazeera. Five doctors and some nurses are also back at the hospital. It has also been reported that premature babies are still in the hospital. Doctor Ala Abu Salem (left) at Al Shifa Hospital was one of those who fled south. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil Pictures taken by a local TV team that news collaborates with show a stream of people who have been fleeing south from Gaza City throughout the day. Some carried white flags. Among the many who fled are patients, relatives and people who had sought refuge at the hospital. Doctor Ala Abu Salem was one of them. – We evacuated the hospital after coordination with the Israelis. A large group of refugees and the sick have managed to get out. But there is still a group of doctors together with injured patients that it is difficult to get out, he says to news. A truck with a white flag full of people who fled south from Gaza City today. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil Critical situation – Many of those who are in a critical condition, including newborns and kidney patients, will die within a short time if they are not evacuated, hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera. This photo was taken by a local TV team that news collaborates with and shows people who fled south from Gaza City. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil The figures on the number of evacuees have varied throughout the day, and it was reported earlier today that 450 patients remained in the hospital. Al Shifa is the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, and is located in Gaza City. The message to evacuate within an hour should have come over the loudspeaker, reports an AFP journalist who is at the hospital. Israel is said to have also called the hospital director, instructing him to move injured, patients, internally displaced persons and staff on foot towards the coast, AFP and Al Jazeera report. Israel denies that they requested 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”. – Following a request from the director of Al Shifa hospital, the IDF has agreed to extend and assist the evacuation work, the IDF’s press channel replies. 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” The IDF now denies to news that they have requested any evacuation of patients or injured. – At no time did the IDF order the evacuation of patients or medical teams, but suggested that any request for medical evacuation would be facilitated by the IDF. Medical personnel will remain at the hospital to support patients who are unable to evacuate. Overnight (Friday), the IDF provided additional food, water and humanitarian aid to the hospital, the IDF writes. Can’t get in touch with staff A doctor at the hospital tells Al Jazeera that it is impossible to evacuate in such a short time, as there are many thousands of people in the hospital. Over 300 of them will be patients. Most of them are in a critical condition, according to Al Jazeera. Lindis Hurum in Doctors Without Borders. Photo: Emma-Marie B. Whittaker / news Doctors Without Borders has 300 Palestinian employees and 15 international aid workers inside Gaza. General secretary Lindis Hurum says they have not been in contact with colleagues at the hospital since Tuesday. – This must end. It is a humanitarian disaster with dimensions we have never seen, she says to news. – It is not possible to evacuate such a large hospital in an hour. It is impossible to evacuate seriously injured people while fighting is going on right outside, says Hurum. Admitted to hospital Israel has admitted to hospital this week. This has caused strong reactions. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have published several videos from inside the hospital, with what they believe is evidence of military activity at the hospital. So far, it has not been proven that the hospital is a military headquarters, as the IDF believes. Hamas and doctors at the hospital also reject the claims. The director of the hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, says 22 patients died in the hospital on Friday night due to a lack of electricity. Lack of fuel, medicine and equipment has made conditions almost impossible in several of Gaza’s hospitals. Earlier in the war there had been attacks against the Al Shifa hospital. Several killed in southern Gaza On Friday, Israel urged people to move west from the city, out of the fighting areas. This is seen as a sign that the Israeli military is planning to attack Hamas in the south of Gaza, after having defeated the group in the north. – We ask people to move. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want civilians to be caught in the crossfire, Mark Regev, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers, told MSNBC. This could force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled south from Israel’s attack on Gaza City to find new places to stay. A woman holds a baby at a building in Khan Younis that was hit by airstrikes on Saturday night. Photo: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / Reuters IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said late Friday that the military would continue its offensive “in all places where Hamas is, and that is south of the strip.” On the night of Saturday, at least 26 people were killed, and several wounded, in Israeli bombardment against Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, claims a director at the hospital in Khan Younis. Many of them must be children, according to a news agency. A few kilometers away, in Deir al-Balah, another six Palestinians were killed when a house was bombed from the air, according to Gaza health authorities. In another attack, 15 people were killed near a shelter west of Khan Younis, according to witnesses and doctors who the news agency Reuters has spoken to. Khan Younis has over 400,000 inhabitants. When these have to flee together with those who have made it there, the humanitarian crisis worsens. Israel accuses Hamas of hiding fighters and weapons in homes and other civilian buildings, which Hamas denies. Israeli attack on factory in Lebanon Israel has also attacked targets on Lebanese territory, reports a Lebanese news agency. An aluminum factory 15 kilometers from the border has been hit. The factory caught fire after being hit in an Israeli drone attack, writes the Lebanese state news agency NNA. According to the mayor of the village of Kfour, two civilians were taken to hospital.
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