Palestine | Hours of terror lived during Israeli raid in Gazan hospital
Huda Hegazi, teleSUR correspondent in the Gaza Strip, reports on the recent Israeli raid to a hospital in the area, as the health system is under risk of collapse due to the constant raids. teleSUR
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00:00Hours of terror were lived on Friday in the martyrs of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza
00:06Strip when Israeli tanks raided the area.
00:08Our correspondent Huda Hegazi with the details.
00:11Yesterday, we lived one of the most terrifying nights here inside the martyrs of Al-Aqsa
00:18Hospital in a governorate of Deir al-Bala in the center of the Gaza Strip.
00:29At approximately three o'clock in the morning eyewitnesses informed us that the military
00:33mechanisms had begun to move in and were right at the entrance of this governorate, which
00:37is literally one kilometer away from the hospital.
00:46Immediately after this warning we started to hear how the tanks were approaching and
00:50even how the artillery shells started to be launched by these tanks of the Israeli occupation
00:55army.
00:56Right away the situation was turned upside down.
01:06Not only in this hospital but in almost all the area, the sick, the patients that were
01:10inside this hospital were getting ready to leave the buildings in a disconsolate way
01:14without knowing where to go.
01:25Even we, the media, did not know where to go.
01:28We did not even know what we should do, whether to stay inside this hospital or on the other
01:32hand leave, because our lives were also in grave danger.
01:43And after two hours of continuous fear, hearing continuously the artillery shells fired by
01:48the tanks and how the tanks proceeded to advance until they were very close to us.
02:00After these two terrifying hours there was a partial withdrawal of the Israeli mechanisms
02:04that are now being positioned in an area called the mills, which is located approximately
02:15two kilometers from this hospital.
02:18Therefore we can say that this hospital is no longer a safe area.
02:28Even the Gazans, the evacuees, do not feel that this hospital is a safe area because
02:33they fear that at any time the Israeli army can raid this hospital and the scenario that
02:38the Gazans saw in the Al-Shifa Hospital, in the Kamal Adwan Hospital and even in the Nasser
02:50Hospital in the Governorate of Conjunis could be repeated in this hospital.
03:03At this moment we are prepared for any scenario and literally the Gazatais fear that the occupation
03:09army will enter this hospital and we could say that in that case the only remaining active
03:13hospital in the center of the Gaza Strip would be out of service.
03:17And this would collapse the health system in this coastal enclave.