31 premature babies in "extremely critical condition" were safely transferred from Gaza s main hospital to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severe infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations.
Five years ago, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, scrawled a note on a document that he knew Egyptian intermediaries would hand to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu s refusal to stop the war unless Hamas is eliminated has earned him the ire of Israeli Jews, and 94% of the population believes his government is partially to blame for the events of October 7.
A United Nations team reported that 291 patients were left at Gaza s largest hospital after Israeli troops evacuated others. The hospital, which is also overwhelmed, has been described as a death zone by the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization has described Shifa Hospital as a death zone, with patients and health staff pleading for evacuation.