Gaza: Khan Younis battle threatens biggest hospital still working [View all]

Source: Reuters

Gaza: Khan Younis battle threatens biggest hospital still working

By Bassam Masoud, Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams
January 19, 2024 4:21 AM EST Updated 6 hours ago

GAZA/DOHA/JERUSALEM, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Israeli forces advanced into the southern Gaza Strip's main city on Thursday, pounding areas near the enclave's biggest functioning hospital, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau vowed "many more months" of fighting until total victory is achieved.

The heaviest battle of the year was under way in Khan Younis, sheltering hundreds of thousands of people who fled the north earlier in the war, now in its fourth month.

Residents described heavy fighting and intense bombardment in the north and east of the city and, for the first time, in the west, where they said tanks had advanced to carry out a raid before withdrawing.

Khan Younis residents said on Thursday the fighting had come within a whisker of Nasser Hospital, the biggest hospital still working in the enclave. It has been receiving hundreds of wounded patients a day, crammed into wards and treated on the floors since the fighting shifted to the south last month.

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