The Israeli military says its special forces are still in the Nasser hospital in Gaza and they are carrying out a mission against Hamas there.
Israel started a mission on Thursday that it said was careful and not too big. The army says it has arrested many people they think are involved in terrorism.
Hamas said the claim was not true.
The WHO said the facility urgently needs fuel to keep providing life-saving services.
The hospital in Khan Younis had a power outage and couldn’t give oxygen, so five people died, the health ministry said.
These deaths have not been confirmed by another source.
Nasser is the main hospital in southern Gaza. It is one of the few hospitals still open and there has been a lot of fighting between the IDF and Hamas there for days.
On Wednesday, the Israeli army told lots of people who had been staying there to go away.
Tarik Jasarevic, who works for the WHO, said that there are now reports that the orthopaedic unit has been damaged.
“He said it’s harder to give quick medical help. There are still very sick patients at the hospital. ”
“The more the hospital gets worse, the more people die. ”
Nahed Abu-Teima, the director of Nasser hospital, said to the media that the situation inside the hospital is really bad and very risky.
Pictures confirmed by the media showed doctors and nurses quickly moving patients on beds through a hallway that was full of smoke or dust.
“Nasser Hospital is surrounded and we have no water or food,” said Raed Abed, a man who was injured and forced to leave the hospital. He told the Associated Press.
“Trash is everywhere, and there is sewage overflowing in the emergency room. ”
The IDF thinks that Hamas has been using hospitals and other places where civilians go for protection while doing military activities.
“We can’t let Hamas go free, we need to make sure they are found and stopped,” said Lt Col Peter Lerner, spokesperson for IDF, in an interview with the media.
He said the military worked very hard to move people from the hospital to keep them safe and denied targeting civilians.
The IDF caught 20 Hamas members at the hospital who were involved in the 7 October attacks on Israel.
It also reported that it found weapons, like grenades, at the building.
The army is also looking for Israeli hostages’ bodies that might be hidden in the hospital based on information from intelligence.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that Israeli tanks were attacking the nearby Al-Amal hospital and causing a lot of damage to two nursing rooms.
They posted on social media that no one had been injured.
There have been a lot of fights near the hospital lately. The PRCS was “raided” last week because 8,000 people had to leave.
On Friday, they said that two doctors who were taken by the police were let go, but 12 other staff members were still in jail.
Israel started to attack after groups of Hamas fighters crossed into Israel on 7 October. They killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 253 others as hostages to Gaza.
The health ministry in charge of Hamas says that over 28,700 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel’s attack.
Israel is being told to be more careful by other countries, but talks to stop the fighting haven’t worked yet.
A top Palestinian official involved in the talks about stopping the fighting said to the BBC that the two sides still disagree on many of the ideas for how to make peace.
Top leaders from the US, Israel, Egypt, and Qatar are in Cairo this week to try to make a deal.
The official said the main problem is the disagreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about what happens after the war ends. The US wants the Palestinian Authority to be stronger, but Israel doesn’t want one government to control both the West Bank and Gaza.
Another argument is about Israel’s goal of completely eliminating Hamas, which the US believes will be hard to do in the near future.
The US is trying to make both sides agree to stop fighting for a long time, so they don’t start fighting again.