Hamas suspends hostage negotiations over Israel's attacks on Gaza's Al Shifa hospital

Hamas has suspended negotiations on the Israeli hostages captured on October 7 due to the siege by the Israeli Army on the Al Shifa hospital, located in Gaza City, a Palestinian source close to the talks confirmed to Reuters. the kidnapped

Moments before, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assured in an interview with the American network NBC that “there could be” an exchange for the release of the hostages held by the Palestinian militias in Gaza.

“I think that the less I say about it, the more I will increase the chances of it materializing,” said Netanyahu, who stressed that any agreement will be “the result of military pressure” from Israeli forces.. “If there is a possibility of an agreement, we will talk about it when it is there. We will announce it if it is achieved,” he said.

Hospital under siege

This Sunday, the press office of the government of the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has once again denounced that Israeli troops are keeping this hospital, Gaza's main medical center, under siege, where it has indicated that there are “stacked corpses.”

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 40 displaced people taking refuge in the hospital were attacked by Israeli forces as they tried to evacuate the complex.. However, the Israeli Army indicated this Sunday that its troops are allowing the evacuation of civilians from the Al Shifa, Rantisi and Nasser hospitals.

The World Health Organization (WHO), for its part, lost communication with Al Shifa staff this Sunday.. “We assume that our contacts have joined tens of thousands of displaced people who had sought refuge on the hospital grounds and are fleeing the area,” they said.

The director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called the situation at this hospital “deeply worrying and terrifying.”

According to the latest reports received by WHO, the hospital was surrounded by tanks and staff reported a lack of clean water and the risk that the last remaining critical functions, including ICUs, ventilators and incubators, would stop working. soon due to lack of fuel, which would immediately endanger the lives of the patients.