Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital Under Israeli Attacks Once Again
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli occupation forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, once again on Friday morning. They forced patients and the wounded to leave, while also arresting several displaced people and medical staff.
What Happened?
Local sources reported that in the early hours of the morning, the Israeli forces surrounded the hospital with tanks from all sides. They used two civilian prisoners as human shields by sending them to order the patients and those in the hospital to leave.
جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يقتحم مستشفى كمال عدوان
— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) December 6, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces have arrested a number of young men and instructed others to head to west Gaza City via Salah al-Din Street.
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan, confirmed that the Israeli forces arrested a number of displaced people and medics while forcing other medics to leave the hospital and head towards the Indonesian Hospital.
The Indonesian delegation was also forced to leave the hospital and head towards the Indonesian Hospital, according to journalists.
قوات الاحتلال تجبر الوفد الطبي الإندونيسي الخروج من شمال غزة pic.twitter.com/NEhn7FIGIB
— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) December 6, 2024
Abu Safiya added that there is a large number of martyrs and critically injured people due to the Israeli attacks on the hospital and its vicinity, with the bodies of the martyrs still lying in the hospital courtyards.
Multiple Palestinians have been killed or injured after Israeli occupation forces bombarded several homes in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/An4OZ3HW2i
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 6, 2024
Repeated Attacks
Just before the Israeli raid, it was quite violent and bloody in the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan Hospital and inside the health facility where the Israeli military was deploying quadcopters and attack drones to drop grenades on people, patients, the injured, and civilians inside the hospital, killing and injuring many.
A drone strike on Thursday killed a 16-year-old boy in a wheelchair and wounded at least 12 other people, including medical staff.
قوات الاحتلال تستهدف مستشفى كمال عدوان شمال قطاع غزة بالقصف، ما أسفر عن وقوع شهداء وجرحى من المرضى والطواقم الطبية، نتيجة القصف والاقتحام الذي نفذته قوات الاحتلال على المستشفى. pic.twitter.com/g6VfqHeP46
— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) December 6, 2024
Shortly before the Israeli raid, Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan, described the horrific conditions inside the hospital and the gruesome injuries they were receiving inside the hospital that were caused by the attacks of the Israeli quadcopters and drones in the past hours.
The hospital was running out of any meaningful medical care, given the hardship and the fact the past 60-plus days have been very strict in terms of what can enter the northern part of Gaza as there is a complete siege, military siege, on the area with no humanitarian aid – medical supplies, water, or life-sustaining resources – available to people there because of the ongoing deliberate prevention by the Israeli military.
