We begin with the Israel Hamas war and the Gaza
hospitals now finding themselves on the front lines.
The World Health Organization says it has verified more than
250 attacks on hospitals, ambulances,
clinics and patients in Gaza since the war started.
Israeli officials say Hamas has operational bases under some hospitals.
Yeah, the healthcare system in Gaza is near collapsed on
its knees,
is how the head of the World Health Organization describes
it.
And AB CS Matt Gutman is in Tel Aviv with
the latest.
Good morning Matt
Gio. Good morning. I just got off the phone with
a surgeon at Gaza's main hospital.
He says they are down to 1 operating room.
They are just treating life critical patients.
He says because there is no fuel,
generators have failed, incubators have failed and at least one
infant is died.
That is Israel continues to encircle those hospitals.
We got off the phone also with an Israeli commander
in the field who says they've spotted Hamas operatives inside
the hospitals masquerading as patients and using patients,
they say as human Shields.
This morning, Gaza's main hospitals in the crosshairs.
This series of explosions rattling the Indonesian hospital in Gaza,
people scrambling for cover.
A reporter live on air ducking the anchor,
urging him to run for shelter.
Today, Israel saying it has evacuated the Rantisi
Children's Hospital in Gaza. And at the city's main hospital,
Al Shifa. The severely wounded are crammed in the quarters.
They're now only treating life threatening wounds.
Earlier Friday, after an explosion at the hospital grounds,
this girl screaming, why? God,
why Israel? Saying that explosion was caused by a failed
Palestinian rocket launch inside doctors jostling with refugees for space
amid the cries from the wounded.
We spoke to one of the doctors there overnight who
said the system has collapsed.
Currently we're working in with not more than
15% capacity of the nurses and doctors in the hospital.
So what we run the ship hospital now is,
is with the only basic things we do,
only the life threatening surgery,
military spokesman Peter Lerner said.
Israel is focusing on the hospitals because that's where Hamas
is.
They have positioned all of their capabilities in,
around and beneath hospitals. But there are thousands of patients
who are wounded,
some of them very severely,
who cannot be moved, they can be moved.
There are ambulance services that are up and running.
It's a matter of deciding to move them.
Israel has been urging Gazans to flee southward,
opening humanitarian quarters now choked with refugees.
The Israeli military says more than
150,000 have fled in just the past two days,
most of them on foot,
the elderly on donkey carts,
this mother dragging her toddlers in their car seats,
and the US with increasingly vocal criticism of Israel's conduct
of its war against Hamas.
Far too many Palestinians have been killed,
far too many have suffered.
More than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed,
according to the Hamas run health ministry and Israeli officials
reporting over 1200 deaths.
And there are nearly 240 hostages that are still being
held in Gaza overnight.
Israel's military spokesman called the negotiations for their release complex.
And over the past five weeks,
the families of the protesters have kept up this constant
presence.
Here, right outside Israel's military headquarters,
you can see the banners of the other side.
And they've managed to change the narrative and the strategic
goals of the state of Israel,
which first said that destroying Hamas was the first and
last priority.
Now freeing those hostages is among the top priorities,
which an important reminder of those still missing.
Matt Gutman, thank you.