Directors and representatives of government and private hospitals in the Gaza Strip affirmed their commitment to fulfilling their health and humanitarian mission towards our people despite all the threats and warnings they receive, stressing, “We will not abandon our patients and wounded, no matter the circumstances.”

They pointed out during a press conference they held today, Wednesday, regarding the Israeli occupation’s threats to them to evacuate the hospitals, that “what happened with the Ahli Baptist Hospital is a massacre and a premeditated crime, and we warn the world that the occupier will continue with his threats if there is no one to restrain him.”

They added: "After demolishing homes on top of their residents and targeting the displaced to the south, ambulances, mosques and churches, the occupation today dares, with all brutality and in an unprecedented manner in the world, to target hospitals."

They pointed out that all hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received threatening messages from the Israeli occupation requiring evacuation, stressing that this order, in addition to being in violation of all international norms and laws, is operationally impossible to implement.

They explained that deliberately sending threatening messages repeatedly to health facilities means that the Israeli occupation is thirsty to shed more blood and inflict more massacres and victims.

They stressed that the hospitals of the Gaza Strip are no longer a place only for the sick, but rather have become a place of refuge for innocent and defenseless displaced civilians who are stranded and cannot find a safe place in the entire Gaza Strip.