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At the scene of Israeli hospital hit by Iran strike

Lucy Williamson

Middle East correspondent

ReportingReporting from Beersheba
Reuters, Smoke Waves through Soroka Medical Center after Iran strikeReuters

When we arrived, black smoke was still fluctuating from the middle of the Soroka Medical Center. A few hours after Iran’s attack on the building.

Bendered metal shrapnel pieces – some of the missiles – in and around the hospital complex 200 m (656ft) are dispersed in an area.

Vehicles carrying medical staff covered the road outside – an emergency response would be worse for a situation where many of them were afraid.

A minister flow to express their anger in the strike as a minister flows, the crowds of soldiers, police and rescue teams grinded around the hospital entrances.

Alon Uzi wandered outside the hospital entrance with two bags of goods.

When the attack took place, he said he was being treated in the emergency room and they had no time to reach the shelter.

Im I was lying in bed and heard a big explosion, dedi he said. “And there was an explosion before doing something, and part of the ceiling fell and I was covered with white dust.

“There was no time to get out of bed. I was just getting ready and then I heard a whistling sound.”

In the emergency procurement area, the air carried the thong of chemicals mixed with dust. As the emergency teams passed to the surgical wards shot, the patients were evacuated on stretchers from the depths of the building.

Medical personnel, local media, the patients there have recently moved to the hospital’s underground emergency shelters, he said. According to the Israeli Ministry of Health, seventy people were injured.

The man who interviewed outside the Israeli Hospital
Reuters health personnel carrying a patient on a stretcher in Soroka Medical Center. Reuters

Professor Asher Bashiri, Director of Motherhood Ward, said he could see his field of influence from his office.

“It looks amazing,” he said to me. “The upper part of the building cracked and fire was coming in the first hours. Everything was broken.”

He said that they carried all patients to a more protected area when the war started.

“We were very lucky,” he said. “It could have been much worse. But we’re still living in an incredible situation. It’s not over – I don’t know what to happen tomorrow.

Hospital Director Shlomi Codish said that the northern surgery building was shot and several wards were destroyed by giving great damage to the entire hospital.

“We expect that we will transfer more than 200 patients to other medical centers in the next few hours,” he said. “We are trying to minimize the number of people, we do not know whether the buildings will collapse or the wards will collapse.”

Among the flow of ministers visiting the site today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party was the Minister of Culture Miki Zohar.

“All people need to know what we’ve met – a regime trying to kill innocent people,” he said. “When you deal with evil, this is a different war. Believe me, we will not stop until you win. We will answer and this will be very strong.”

Mr. Zohar was asked about Israel’s history of bombing hospitals in Gaza – his army Hamas said it was used as military control centers.

“We keep innocent people in Gaza as safe as possible,” he said. He continued: “We urge them to evacuate them before bombing. This is the big difference between Iran and the United States.”

At the BBC scene at the Israeli Hospital shot by the Iranian missile

Culture Minister Miki Zohar was among the ministers who visited the site to express today’s anger from the Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“All people need to know what we’ve met – a regime trying to kill innocent people,” he said. “When you deal with evil, this is a different war. Believe me, we will not stop until you win. We will answer and this will be very strong.”

Mr. Zohar was asked about Israel’s history of bombing hospitals in Gaza – his army Hamas said it was used as military control centers.

“We keep innocent people in Gaza as safe as possible,” he said. He continued: “We urge them to evacuate them before bombing. This is the big difference between Iran and the United States.”

EPA A Van parked outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and this was completely destroyed. EPA

Israel’s army attacked several hospitals in Gaza, where Hamas claimed to have used it as military control centers

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz accused Iran of the top leader of “the most serious kind of war crimes” and said it would be held responsible.

Netanyahu accused Iran of deliberately accusing civilians and promised that Israel would be “full price of the oppressors in Tehran”.

The Iranian media said that the targeted center is in GAV-YAM Technology Park, which is lower than 3km (1.86 miles).

One day after Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender”, he was one of the half dozen sites hit by Iranian missiles on Thursday morning.

It reminds us that both sides have the capacity to increase this conflict by using different weapons or selecting different targets.

While the US President scanns the decision to enter the war with Israel, he demands that Iran to submit to an agreement that ends a nuclear enrichment in order to prevent the path of a nuclear weapon.

On Wednesday, Israel said that he had sent 40 fighter aircraft to targets in Iran, including an inactive nuclear reactor in Arak and a nuclear development building in Natanz and dozens of missiles and radar in Natanz.

After almost a week of daily attacks from both sides, this war is balanced on the edge of a much wider conflict.

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