Tel Aviv — The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry has launched harrowing new footage of what it says are circumstances inside Al-Shifa hospital. Israeli forces are persevering with to pummel northern Gaza in what the IDF says is an effort to wipe out the Islamist militant group as soon as and for all. 

In a seven-minute graphic video posted on the ministry’s Facebook web page, an unnamed physician is seen describing his environment as wounded and injured persons are strewn throughout the hospital ground. 

“The department is completely full of wounded and injured,” the unnamed physician says within the video. 

“They are on the ground taking their last breaths due to the collapse of the health system, due to the lack of medicines due to the occupation besieging the hospitals,” the person says because the digital camera focuses on seemingly lifeless our bodies mendacity on the ground. 

Young kids are additionally seen bandaged and on hospital gurneys. The narrator claims that numerous the injured “are children.” 

“Serious cases are present here without treatment at all. There are no treatments. This is what the condition of people looks like. They are crying for their children. They are crying for their children without any treatment,” the person says.

Fierce combating has raged in northern Gaza within the aftermath of Hamas militants’ bloody incursion into Israel on Oct. 7, which Israel says killed 1,200 individuals with about 240 hostages seized, within the worst terrorist assault in Israel’s historical past. 

Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, advised CBS News Friday that the demise toll from the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas militants has been revised to 1,200, down from the beforehand reported approximation of at the least 1,400. Haitat mentioned that the opposite 200 individuals killed had been “probably terrorists.”   

Israel’s subsequent war on the Islamist militant group has left greater than 11,000 individuals useless within the closely bombarded Gaza Strip from Israeli strikes up to now month, the Hamas-controlled Gaza well being ministry mentioned Friday, based on Reuters. 

Israel has agreed to daily humanitarian pauses in its offensive in northern Gaza, the White House and Israeli authorities introduced on Thursday. 

“Israel is allowing safe passage through humanitarian corridors from the northern Gaza strip to the south,” the Israeli prime minister’s workplace advised CBS News on Thursday. 

The Israeli military has repeatedly accused Hamas militants of utilizing hospitals — notably Al-Shifa — to coordinate their warfare effort and says underground tunnels are current beneath the hospital as hideouts for Hamas commanders. Israel had reported heavy combating on Thursday close to the hospital, saying it had killed dozens of militants and destroyed some tunnels. 

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry mentioned Friday that Israeli tanks had encircled two different kids’s hospitals in northern Gaza and claimed to CBS News {that a} maternity hospital housing displaced individuals at Al-Shifa hospital complicated had been straight focused by Israeli forces. 

A World Health Organization spokesperson additionally mentioned the hospital had been “coming under bombardment.”

“If there is a hell on earth today, its name is Northern Gaza. People who remain there, the corners of their existence is death, depravation, despair, displacement and literally darkness,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris mentioned Friday. 

“What do you tell your children in such a situation, it’s almost unimaginable. That the fireworks they see in the sky are out to kill them, ’cause that’s what it looks like,” she mentioned. 

The IDF’s worldwide spokesperson, Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, denied these expenses in a press briefing on Friday. 

“The IDF does not fire on hospitals … we are aware of the sensitivity of the hospitals and I am aware of the dynamic at the hospitals,” Hecht advised reporters. “We are aware that Hamas are operating within the hospitals … We are not dropping bombs on Al-Shifa.”

“It would be easier for Hamas to leave the hospitals, and if they made it visual to us,” Hecht mentioned.