Calls For Patients In Gaza Hospital To Be Evacuated

PALESTINIAN authorities have proposed a Red Cross-supervised evacuation of a hospital beset by fighting in Gaza.

It came as health officials warned that the only way to save three dozen newborns trapped in the hospital would be to call a ceasefire and transport them out of the besieged territory.

After days of battles with Palestinian militants, Israeli forces have encircled Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced people are trapped with dwindling supplies and without electricity to run incubators and other equipment.