Israel orders the closure and evacuation of one of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety.
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00:00Israel orders the closure and evacuation of one of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals,
00:06forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety.
00:10Kamal Adwan Hospital head Husam Abu Safiya says obeying the shutdown is next to impossible
00:15due to the lack of ambulances to get the nearly 400 patients out safely.
00:19He also says the hospital is under heavy bombardment and direct targeting of the fuel tanks, which
00:24can cause civilian mass casualties.
00:26The Israeli military has yet to comment on Abu Safiya's remarks.
00:31Israel says its operation around the three communities on the northern edge of Gaza is
00:35targeting Hamas militants.
00:36Meantime, on Saturday, December 21, Pope Francis again condemned Israel's airstrikes in Gaza.
00:42Francis opened his annual Christmas address saying,
00:45Yesterday, children were bombed.
00:47This is cruelty.
00:48This is not war.
00:50In book excerpts published in November, the pontiff said some international experts said
00:54that what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.
00:58Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli criticized Francis' comments, saying
01:03the pope's remarks amounted to a trivialization of the term genocide.