The EU has condemned Hamas for using “hospitals and civilians as human shields” in Gaza, while also urging Israel to show “maximum restraint” to protect civilians from the war it is waging.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said this in a statement.
The appeal went out as Gaza’s largest medical facility, Al-Shifa hospital, was being targeted for repeated strikes.
Hamas health officials said one of them destroyed its cardiac ward on Sunday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said another facility, Al-Quds hospital, was knocked out of service because of a lack of generator fuel.
Israel denies deliberately targeting hospitals. It accuses Hamas of using the facilities, or tunnels under them, as hideouts, which the Islamist militant group denies.
