Gaza says 2,300 civilians remain in Al Shifa Hospital Without electricity, water and food
The Gaza Health Ministry has said that at least 2,300 civilians remain in Al Shifa Hospital.
The World Health Organisation has the following figures: between 600 and 650 hospitalised people, between 200 and 500 health workers and approximately 1,500 refugees remain at Shifa, according to NEWSru.co.il.
Fighting continues around the hospital.
The medical facility, located in Gaza City, is without electricity, water and food. WHO estimates that the lives of thousands of people are at risk. WHO therefore calls for an immediate ceasefire and the protection of civilians.
Earlier, the Gaza Health Ministry reported that the Al Shifa Hospital had run out of fuel. According to the report, all babies in the premature infant ward could die within the next 48 hours due to the shutdown of the generators used to run the incubators.
Meanwhile, Ahmad al-Qahlout, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip's Jabaliya neighbourhood, said in an interview with Al Jazeera TV that the main generator ran out of fuel and the hospital stopped working.
He said that in addition to patients, some 5,000 refugees are using the building as a shelter.
Al-Qahlout says none of those in the hospital can evacuate to the south of the Strip because of the ongoing fighting.
According to sources in Gaza, during the night of November 12 to 13, the Israel Defense Forces continued to operate in the Gaza Strip. During the night.
The sources said the intensity of the fighting was lower this night than on previous nights.
Sources in Gaza reported that IDF artillery struck targets north of Gaza City.
It was reported that the IDF struck the home of the Abu Kamil family in the Daraj neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip, there were killed and wounded.
There were also reports of fighting near the Al-Razali junction in Sheikh Radwan, in the north of the Strip.
The most reported situation from Gaza was the plight of Kamal Aduan Hospital in Jabaliya and Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. It was alleged that fighting was ongoing around the hospitals, but no details were published.
At the same time, the Palestinian radical movement Hamas reportedly planned to continue its offensive against Israeli citizens from the Gaza Strip all the way to the West Bank. This is reported by The Washington Post with reference to intelligence information and maps indicating such plans of militants.
As reported, Hamas hoped that the scale of the attack would force Israel to respond with a "stunning" response that would spark a conflict that would engulf the entire Middle East.
Moreover, the first group of 70 Russians evacuated from the Gaza Strip will leave for Moscow on the morning of 13 November, said the head of the operation, advisor to the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Daniil Martynov upon his arrival at the operational headquarters in Cairo.
"Tomorrow at 10:00 we leave for Cairo airport where a plane to Moscow is waiting for us," he said. According to him, "all 70, the first 70 people reached" the operational headquarters "safe and sound.
Martynov added that the Russian Emergencies Ministry's task force will be in Egypt until all Russians who have expressed a desire to leave Gaza are evacuated. "We will be here for as long as it takes to evacuate everyone. We will leave only when an extreme compatriot or one who turned to us for help will be taken out and put on a plane," he said.
Martynov stressed that the Emergencies Ministry's task force "is ready to evacuate all Russian citizens and those seeking help - about 1,000 people - in a few days."