Dr. Ghassan Al-Suwaiti, a Jordanian plastic surgeon and burn specialist, performs an operation in December at Jordan’s discipline hospital in Khan Younis.

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Dr. Ghassan Al-Suwaiti, a Jordanian plastic surgeon and burn specialist, performs an operation in December at Jordan’s discipline hospital in Khan Younis.

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AMMAN, Jordan — The Jordanian navy says Israeli forces intentionally focused its latest discipline hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, blocking the doorway to the advanced with a tank and capturing on the hospital and bunkers the place workers had been sheltering.

Israel denied that it shelled the sphere hospital in Khan Younis, saying it was engaged in a gunfight with Hamas fighters close by.

“This action was not a consequence of a clash with resistance factions,” the Jordanian armed forces mentioned in a press release Friday. It mentioned it “strongly asserts that the deliberate targeting of the Jordanian Field Hospital was part of Israel’s consistent approach to targeting hospitals in Gaza.”

Jordan mentioned it was the fourth deliberate concentrating on of its discipline hospitals in Gaza for the reason that battle started in October.

The kingdom, which signed a peace settlement with neighboring Israel in 1994, established its first discipline hospital in Gaza greater than a decade in the past. In November, it arrange a second hospital in Khan Younis, after its Gaza City facility was broken and 7 medics injured in what it mentioned was an Israeli airstrike.

According to the Jordanian navy, Israeli forces knew the situation of the hospital and knew that workers had been sheltering in an adjoining concrete constructing. Video footage launched by Jordan’s armed forces confirmed the constructing with bullet holes within the concrete partitions, shattered home windows and bloodstains on a mattress.

It mentioned considered one of its injured medics was evacuated by air for remedy whereas a affected person on the hospital sustained shrapnel accidents. Jordan mentioned the hospital incurred substantial harm — a declare denied by Israel.

“Despite ongoing coordination with the Israeli side with emphasis on refraining from targeting Jordanian hospitals, Israeli forces persist in deliberately targeting Jordanian medical facilities on a consistent basis,” the Jordanian navy mentioned. It famous that concentrating on medical services violates worldwide treaties, together with the Geneva Convention.

The Khan Younis discipline hospital has handled between 400 and 1,000 instances a day because it was arrange in November, based on navy officers.

Israeli bombardment has broken or destroyed lots of Gaza’s hospitals and medical clinics.

Fighting has now drawn nearer to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the most important hospital nonetheless working in Gaza. Israel has accused Hamas of launching a munition out of the Nasser advanced, which is positioned just a few hundred yards from the Jordanian discipline hospital. A launched Israeli hostage mentioned she and different hostages had been held within the hospital, which Hamas denied.

On Thursday, the help group Medical Aid for Palestinians mentioned its compound housing emergency medical workers working close to the Nasser Hospital was severely broken in a missile strike. Several staff members had been injured, and the workers was compelled to evacuate, the group mentioned.

The World Health Organization mentioned two weeks ago that there had been greater than 300 assaults on well being care services in Gaza for the reason that begin of the conflict in October, leaving fewer than half of its hospitals even partly useful whereas overwhelmed with injured civilians.