イスラエルが「死刑執行」宣告の訴えも　数千人退避のガザ最大病院

【パレスチナ自治区ＡＦＰ＝時事】パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区最大のシファ病院は現在、数千人の民間人にとって安全な避難先となっている。しかし、イスラエル軍の攻撃が激化、病院のすぐ外まで戦闘は迫っており、逃げ場のない状況に置かれている。（写真は、患者と避難してきた人々。パレスチナ自治区ガザ市のシファ病院で）
　ガザ市から退避して来たアハマド・シャワさん（１８）は、一歩でも外に出れば爆弾の破片でずたずたにされると恐れている。「とても危険だ」と訴えた。
　病院の廊下は避難民であふれ返っている。負傷者も次から次へと担ぎ込まれる。
　ムハンマド・アブ・サルミヤ院長によると、夜間に繰り返し攻撃にさらされ、数時間にわたり停電となった。
　ＮＧＯ「人権のための医師団・イスラエルは医師の話として、未熟児２人が攻撃により死亡したとしている。
　病院を離れることを恐れる人は多い。
　国境なき医師団（ＭＳＦ）の医師らは、病院から出ようとして撃たれた人々を見たと語る。
　病院の地下に家族と共に避難している看護師は「私たちはここで殺されようとしている。何とかしてほしい」と訴えた。
　イスラエル軍は病院への攻撃はないとしているが、周辺でイスラム組織ハマスの戦闘員と交戦していることを認めた。
　イスラエルは、ハマスがガザの複数の病院の地下にトンネルや防空壕（ごう）を造り、民間人を人間の盾にしていると非難。ハマス側はこれを否定している。
　国連の人権問題調整室（ＯＣＨＡ）は、１０日のイスラエル軍によるガザ市およびガザ北部の病院周辺での激しい空爆により、「幾つかの病院が直撃を受けた」としている。
　ＯＣＨＡによると、ガザの３６病院のうち約２０か所がもはや機能してない。
　シファ病院の外科責任者、マルワン・アブ・サダさんは慈善団体「パレスチナ人のための医療援助」に対し、病院周辺では至る所で銃爆撃があったと話した。攻撃の音は途切れることがなかったと言う。
　「誰もシファ病院に来られないし、出て行くこともできない」
　ＭＳＦは「シファ病院内の民間人は、イスラエル軍に死刑執行を宣告されたようなものだ」と例えた。
　国際赤十字委員会のロベルト・マルディーニ事務局長は、「病院に閉じ込められた患者や職員が直面している過酷な状況は終わらせなければならない」「病院と患者、職員、医療を守る必要がある」と強調した。
　戦闘は激しさを増しているが、院内の医師らはとどまる意向だ。
　「私たちが去ることはできない。私を含む外科医がいなければ、誰が患者の面倒を見るのか」と、ＭＳＦのモハメド・オベイド医師は語った。「手術後、歩けない状態の患者も多く、彼らは避難できない」
　院長の決意も固い。「どんな犠牲を払ってでもわれわれはここから出て行かない」【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/11/14-17:43）

Thousands of displaced Palestinians looked to Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, as a safe haven, but with Israeli strikes intensifying and the fighting reaching the gates of the compound, there seems nowhere for them to escape.
Ahmed al-Shawa, who sought refuge in the hospital, said he was afraid he would be cut down by shrapnel, if he stepped outside.
The situation is very, very dangerous, the 18-year-old from Gaza City said as the sound of explosions echoed in the background.
Crowds of people have crammed into the corridors of Al-Shifa to escape the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, adding to the overwhelming number of war casualties at the hospital.
The facility was hit repeatedly overnight in a new round of strikes that knocked out the power for several hours, its director said.
The outage had resulted in the death of two premature babies, the NGO Physicians for Human Rights Israel said, citing doctors inside the hospital.
Many of the displaced were afraid to leave the hospital, with medics including from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saying they saw people being shot at as they attempted to flee the hospital.
We are being killed here, please do something, a nurse from MSF pleaded from inside the hospital's basement, where he and his family were sheltering.
The shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear, MSF cited the nurse as saying in a text message.
The Israeli military said there is no shooting at the hospital but acknowledged troops were engaged in clashes with Hamas militants around the complex.
- 'Shooting everywhere' -
Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after Hamas fighters poured across the heavily militarised border on October 7, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostages, according to Israeli officials.
Vowing to destroy the militant group, Israel retaliated with relentless bombardments and a ground campaign that the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip says has killed more than 11,000 people, mostly civilians and many of them children.
Israel accuses Hamas of operating from tunnels and bunkers located beneath hospitals in Gaza, using civilians as a shield. Hamas denies the charge.
The United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) said Israeli bombardments around hospitals in Gaza City and the north of the Palestinian territory intensified on Friday, with several being directly hit.
Some 20 out of 36 hospitals throughout Gaza are no longer functioning, according to OCHA.
Outside Al-Shifa, there was shooting and bombardment everywhere, said the hospital's head of surgery, Marwan Abu Sada.
You can hear it at every second, he was quoted as saying by the group Medical Aid For Palestinians.
No one can get out from the Al-Shifa hospital. No one can come to the Al-Shifa hospital.
- 'Unbearably desperate' -
MSF denounced the intense battles around the facility as the death warrant of civilians currently trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military.
The unbearably desperate situation for patients (and) staff trapped inside must stop, said Robert Mardini, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Hospitals, patients, staff (and) health care must be protected.
Despite the intense fighting, doctors inside the complex said they intended to stay put.
We cannot leave. If I am not here or the other surgeon, who will take care of the patients? said MSF doctor Mohammed Obeid.
There are a lot of patients already operated on and they cannot walk. They cannot evacuate, MSF quoted Obeid as saying.
We need an ambulance to move them, we don't have ambulances to evacuate all of these patients.
Al-Shifa director Mohammad Abu Salmiya, too, expressed his resolve to stay: We will not leave here, whatever the cost.
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