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After four failed attempts to pass a resolution, the UN Security Council has reached an agreement to call for "urgent and wide" humanitarian pauses in hostilities between Israel and Hamas for a "sufficient number of days". The resolution, which is binding, also includes the release of hostages by the Islamist militia, and aims to increase the entry of humanitarian aid and medical supplies into the Strip. Israeli forces stormed Gaza's largest hospital, Al Shifa, which had been under a two-day siege. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the raid "totally unacceptable" and stressed that "hospitals are not battlefields." "Even if medical facilities are used for military purposes, the principles of distinction, precaution and proportionality must always be applied" under international humanitarian law, he added. The hospital has run out of food, water and electricity. Some 650 patients, including 36 premature babies, cannot be evacuated, and thousands of civilians displaced from their homes by the fighting are sheltering nearby.
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Images of Al Shifa Hospital after the Israeli assault
Medics look at the damage to the smoke-filled wards inside Al Shifa hospital after the Israeli assault on the center. Photo: REUTERS
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