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Palestinian Red Crescent says Israel asks it to immediately evacuate al-Quds hospital
The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday it has received warnings from Israeli authorities to immediately evacuate al-Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip, as it is “going to be bombarded”.
“Since this morning, there has been raids 50 meters away from the hospital,” it added in a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter.
Israel would allow a dramatic increase in aid to Gaza in the coming days, an official said on Sunday, as he called on Palestinian civilians to head to what he described as a “humanitarian” zone in the south of the territory (see earlier post at 05.14).
“In the coming week we were planning to increase dramatically the amount of assistance” headed for Gaza from Egypt, said Col Elad Goren of Cogat, the Israeli Defence Ministry agency that coordinates with the Palestinians.
“We have marked a humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip in the Khan Younis area … we still recommend that the civilian population that evacuated will go to this zone,” he told journalists during an online briefing, according to Reuters.
Goren did not say whether the humanitarian zone was new or an existing area.
On Friday, the UN said basic services in Gaza had crumbled, leaving people exposed to major outbreaks of disease as the streets overflowed with sewage, and food, water and medicine ran out.
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