Palestine Red Crescent helps Khan Younis’ Al-Amal Hospital resume partial operations

By Mohammed Majed

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) resumed Thursday partial operations at the Al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

The medical facility had been out of service for over a month following an Israeli army raid amid its ongoing war on the enclave.

Medical staff at Al-Amal Hospital resumed work in some departments for the first time in over a month since the Israeli incursion of Khan Younis, an Anadolu correspondent reported.

“The baby Muhammad Luay al-Raqab is the first birth case after the reopening of the maternity ward at the PRCS Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis,” the non-governmental organization said on X.

On March 24, Israeli forces stormed Al-Amal Hospital amid heavy gunfire and carried out excavations in the surrounding area, according to a Palestinian Red Crescent statement at the time.

In the same month, the society announced the complete shutdown of the hospital after Israeli troops forced medical teams to evacuate the hospital and closed its entrances with earth mounds. The invading forces later withdrew from the city on April 7.

Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on Gaza since the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion, which killed around 1,200 people.

Tel Aviv, in comparison, has killed nearly 34,600 Palestinians and wounded 77,700 others amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities in the Palestinian territory.

More than six months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins, pushing 85% of the enclave’s population into internal displacement besides a crippling blockade on food, clean water, and medicine, according to the UN.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which has ordered Tel Aviv to ensure its forces do not commit acts of genocide and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala