by Hamas led the October 7 attacks on southern Israel that Israelis say killed about 1,200 people. The Israeli military response has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to Gaza health officials.
On Monday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said it had resumed emergency and rescue services in Gaza City in the northern strip, more than two months after the Israeli ground offensive forced it to suspend operations and close your hospital.
Weeks of intense airstrikes and the Israeli ground offensive had essentially isolated the north. The resumption of services is possible now because the Israeli military is withdrawing forces from areas around some hospitals in northern Gaza while focusing its attention on the south, said Red Crescent spokesman Nebal Farsakh.
Nearly a dozen members of the rescue team arrived at Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, which is run by the Red Crescent and was a center of operations for the group before it ran out of fuel and closed on November 12. Ms. Farsakh said they were “shocked by the massive destruction” they found and determined they could not work there.
“The hospital is completely burned from the outside and inside all the equipment was completely destroyed,” he said.
On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said at a news conference that the intensive phase of ground maneuvers in northern Gaza had ended and that forces there were now dealing with “pockets of resistance.”
The report was contributed by Eric Schmitt, Stephen’s Castle, Vivian Nereim, Hiba Yazbek, Isabel Kershner, Adam Rasgon, Stanley Reed and Jenny Gross.
