A hearth has damaged out at considered one of northern Gaza’s solely functioning hospitals, whereas medics and sufferers have been pressured to go away by Israeli forces, who raided the hospital on Friday morning, based on employees members.
Kamal Adwan hospital and the encompassing space has been underneath elevated assault this week, based on the hospital’s director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who mentioned 5 medical employees had been killed in a strike on Thursday.
Abu Safiya mentioned he was threatened with arrest by Israeli forces, who ordered employees to go away and sufferers to be transferred to the Indonesian hospital, together with these in vital care who depend on oxygen to outlive.
“The occupation military is burning all of the working departments within the hospital whereas we’re nonetheless there. The military evacuated your complete medical employees and the displaced folks and arrested quite a few the medical employees. There are a lot of accidents among the many medical employees,” Abu Safiya posted on Instagram. He added that a lot of the hospital constructing and gear was broken.
“We presently don’t know what is going to occur to us, the sufferers are being forcibly evacuated to the Indonesian hospital. They lower the oxygen from them, there are sufferers who [could] die at any second,” mentioned a member of the medical employees in a voice message shared by Abu Safiya.
Unverified video footage from the hospital’s neighborhood confirmed a gaggle of males of their underwear strolling previous Israeli troops.
Kamal Adwan hospital has been working underneath siege since October, when Israeli forces started a 3rd navy operation within the Jabaliya refugee camp that concerned the mass demolition of buildings and infrastructure.
Over the previous week, Abu Safiya has described an intensified siege of the hospital, sharing movies of quadcopter drones dropping explosives within the neighborhood.
He mentioned a strike on a close-by constructing killed 50 folks on Thursday – amongst them two paramedics, a paediatrician, a lab technician and a hospital upkeep employee.
Israel’s navy, the Israel Protection Forces, mentioned it’s analyzing the declare that 5 medical employees had been killed however mentioned it disputed the variety of reported casualties within the space.
“The IDF operates towards terrorists and terrorist infrastructure within the space of Jabaliya and continued its operations over the past day. The IDF is unaware of strikes within the space of the Kamal Adwan hospital,” they mentioned.
The Israeli navy mentioned in an announcement that Kasmal Adwan hospital served as a Hamas terrorist stronghold and that it had made efforts to mitigate hurt to civilians and had “facilitated the safe evacuation of civilians, sufferers and medical personnel previous to the operation”.
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