According to officials at Al-Shifa, the facility, which houses thousands of Palestinians, has run out of energy. However, Mr Herzog stated that "everything is operating" at the hospital. In an interview with india Herald, he also said that a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was discovered on the body of a Hamas combatant in northern Gaza.

Mr Herzog stated that a copy translated into Arabic was discovered "just a few days ago" in a children's room that had been "converted into a Hamas military operation base."

The Nazi leader's anti-Semitic manifesto was published for the first time in 1925.

The discovery of a duplicate of it in northern Gaza, according to Mr Herzog, demonstrated that certain Hamas members "learned again and again Adolf Hitler's ideology of hating the Jews."

The World health Organisation (WHO) had previously said that it had lost contact with its contacts at Al-Shifa, where workers and patients were besieged by violence outside.

Later, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus stated that contact had been restored but warned of "dire" circumstances inside. He reiterated pleas for a cease-fire and stated that the hospital had been without power and water for three days.

According to doctors and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, a scarcity of fuel means patients cannot be operated on and incubators for preterm newborns cannot work. However, the president refuted this.

"We deny this at all, there is a lot of spin by Hamas... but there's electricity in Shifa, everything is operating," stated Mr. Herzog.

Israel claims that Hamas has a base beneath the hospital facility, which Hamas denies.

On Saturday, surgeon Marwan Abu Saada told the BBC that the hospital had run out of water, food, and electricity.

He claimed that gunshots and bombardments could be heard "every second" in the hospital.

Following a request from the hospital management, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced israel will assist in the evacuation of newborns from Al-Shifa. Two preterm newborns died, according to a physicians' association, on Saturday.

When asked about mounting calls for a ceasefire, particularly from France's President Macron, Mr Herzog defended Israel's right to defend itself following the 7 october assault.

"We of course listen to our allies, but first and foremost, we defend ourselves," he went on to say.

He admitted that civilians had died in Gaza, but blamed Hamas for many of the disasters.

Mr Herzog stated that Israel's activities in Gaza were conducted "in accordance with the rules of international humanitarian law," with israel informing civilians via phone calls and text messages and asking them to leave from northern Gaza and "go down [to southern Gaza]."

"We give them humanitarian pauses so that they can go down [south]," said Mr. Herzog.

According to the Hamas-run health ministry, more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the conflict began. According to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), more than 1.5 million Palestinians are also displaced.

Following Hamas's horrific 7 october raid, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 others were kidnapped from southern israel, israel began an invasion in the Gaza Strip.

Fighting has been strong in the northern portion of the 41km (25 miles) long and 10km broad enclave, but bombs have also struck Rafah and Khan Younis in the south.
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SIBY JEYYA

13/11/2023 07:56 AM