They’re really doing all they can to minimize civilians

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GAZA/CAIRO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis on Saturday and pounded the length of the enclave, after the United States wielded its U.N. Security Council veto to shield its ally from a demand for a ceasefire.

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Israeli forces had killed at least 7,000 Hamas militants so far, without saying how that estimate was reached, and military chief Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi told soldiers “we need to press harder”.

An ambulance worker in Gaza City’s Shejaiya district told Reuters that emergency crews were often unable to respond to calls from the wounded and that their teams came under Israeli fire, asking that his name not be printed for fear of reprisals.

Jaffa Medical Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, said it had stopped operating on Friday due to extensive damage when Israel bombed a mosque nearby.

Asked for comment on Palestinian accounts of attacks on medical facilities, a spokesperson for the Israeli military said it followed international law and takes “feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Washington’s veto at the United Nations on Friday to reject a vote by 13 of the Security Council’s 15 members backing a humanitarian ceasefire resolution, saying: “Israel will continue our just war to eliminate Hamas.”

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