The Palestine Red Crescent Society issued a statement confirming that Israeli tanks are

 besieging the "Al-Ahli Baptist" Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. "The Red Crescent

 ambulance crews are unable to move to reach the injured and wounded,"the association

 said.

Edited by| Christian Megan

Humanity  section -  CJ journalist

Gaza conflict news section  

Gaza Strip- November,16,2023

The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that Israeli tanks are besieging the "Al-Ahli Arab

 Baptist" Hospital located in northern Gaza, amid violent clashes in its vicinity.

"The Red Crescent ambulance crews are unable to move to reach the injured and

 wounded," the association said in a statement via its account on the X platform.

It is noteworthy that the Baptist Hospital is the only one that remained operating in Gaza

 City, following the Israeli army's siege of the Shifa Medical Complex and its storming at

 dawn on Wednesday, November 15.

Palestinian television had earlier reported that the Baptist Hospital had received about 100

 dead since yesterday evening as a result of Israeli shelling.

The Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was hit by an Israeli raid on October 17, killing more than 470

 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The ministry reported on the evening of Wednesday, November 15, that 25 hospitals in the

 Gaza Strip were out of service, in addition to 52 health centers, as a result of Israeli shelling.

In the context, the commissioner-general of the relief and Works Agency for Palestine

 refugees (UNRWA) announced that communications were "completely cut off "again with

 the Gaza Strip.

During a press conference in Geneva after he briefed the UN member states on the situation

 in Gaza, Philippe Lazzarini said, "I think there is a deliberate attempt to stifle our operations

 and paralyze UNRWA operations," referring to the complete blockade imposed by Israel on

 the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack on October 7.

"Gaza is once again suffering from a complete communications blackout ... This is due to the

 lack of fuel".