Patients flee Al-Aqsa Hospital following Israel’s evacuation order

Patients and displaced people have been fleeing Al-Aqsa Hospital after the Israeli army ordered people to evacuate from areas near the hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip.

News Center- The Israeli army keeps issuing evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip, displacing Palestinians multiple times.

Avichay Adraee, the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesperson, told Deir Al Balah residents to evacuate West in a Sunday post on X. Following the evacuation order, patients and displaced people began to flee Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Patients and injured fleeing the hospital

At a press conference, Dr. Iyad al-Jabri, an administrator at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, said that the patients and injured began to flee the hospital in panic and fear following the evacuation order and called on the international organizations to take an immediate action for the protection of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the only hospital still functioning in central Gaza.

The Gaza’s health ministry also issued a statement demanding the protection of the patients and healthcare workers at the hospital.