Over the weekend, the Israeli Army besieged the Kamal Adwan hospital, one of the last operating ones in northern Gaza, detaining dozens of doctors. A military statement released Monday says that “soldiers have captured approximately 100 terrorists from the center, including some who tried to escape during the evacuation of civilians.”
“After the arrest and expulsion of all medical staff in Kamal Adwan, only one pediatrician has remained in the hospital among all specialties,” the Gaza Ministry of Health stated this Monday, which has requested all those with knowledge in surgery to join the hospital.
Health authorities stated on Friday that there were 600 people in the hospital, including doctors, patients and companions. “Two children died in the ICU when the generators stopped. Three ambulances and transport vehicles were destroyed, as well as the solar energy panel. “The occupation forces are searching the hospital and shooting inside several departments, increasing the state of panic and anxiety.”
The Army has indicated that the operation occurred after obtaining intelligence information that indicated that “terrorists had hidden in the hospital in Jabalia” and that the military coordinated with the hospital to protect patients and guarantee electricity and supplies. of oxygen. “Inside the hospital they found weapons, terrorist funds and intelligence documents,” the Army maintains.
The Israel Defense Forces have also released video of an interrogation of an ambulance driver who tells his interrogator that Hamas was present at the hospital.
“The smell of death has spread through the hospital,” Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals at the Gaza Ministry of Health, told Al Jazeera on Saturday. The center’s doctors, according to the Qatari network, then reported that at least 44 of the hospital’s 70 doctors had been detained. 14 of them were later released, including the center’s director.
“A critical shortage of medical supplies, compounded by very limited access, is depriving the population of life-saving care,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the WHO, wrote in X.
A nurse testified that soldiers surrounded the hospital on Saturday morning. “They evacuated everyone who was taking refuge here. They separated the men from the women and made two lines. “It was very humiliating for our men as their clothes were taken away,” he told Al Jazeera.
According to the medical center spokesperson, this weekend’s siege is the 14th attack against the hospital so far in the offensive. The UN special rapporteur on health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, on Friday used the concept of “medicide” to refer to Israel’s attacks on the health system in Gaza.
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