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Kamal Adwan is under siege – Two children die, scores are kidnapped, including hospital director

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Kamal Adwan is under siege – Two children die, scores are kidnapped, including hospital director

Kamal Adwan is under siege – Two children die, scores are kidnapped, including hospital director
The latest photo of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, before he was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces during their siege and bombardment of the hospital. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle staff

A photo has been shared on social media that is believed to be the last taken of Dr. Abu Safiya and what appear to be two other health workers before he was kidnapped by Israeli forces.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has called for urgent intervention at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, where 600 Palestinians, including medical staff, are trapped and two children died after generators were switched off as Israeli forces continued to shut down of the generators. raid the facility.

“Two children died in intensive care after switching off the hospital generators and attacking the oxygen station,” the Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday evening.

According to the ministry, there are 195 patients, with 70 medical staff, and displaced families in the hospital. At the same time the World Health Organization said Four people have been injured, including three health workers, by Israeli forces.

Israeli forces “ransacked the hospital and shot at several departments, increasing fear and sadness,” the ministry said.

Last photo of Dr. Abu Safiya

At the same time, 44 health workers have been arrested, the WHO said. Among them is the hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

A photo has been shared on social media that is believed to be the last taken of Dr. Abu Safiya and what appears to be a female doctor and another health worker before he was kidnapped by Israeli forces. Journalist Abed Al-Zuwaidi and his father are also reportedly among those arrested. Dozens of male detainees were forced to strip down to their underwear, the ministry said earlier.

The Health Ministry said three ambulances and one transport vehicle were destroyed by Israeli forces, hampering relief and transport operations. The solar power system has also been destroyed, exacerbating the crisis.

“These circumstances urgently require humanitarian organizations to intervene to ensure the safety of all and meet essential needs,” the ministry said.

Contact Verloren

The head of the WHO, Tedros Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X that the organization managed to contact hospital staff on Friday evening after previously losing contact.

He said the “siege and attacks on health workers occurred just hours after the WHO-led mission, which delivered essential supplies to keep the facility operational and took critical patients to Al-Shifa Hospital.”

He called for a ceasefire and demanded that hospitals, health workers and patients “be given protection.”

No access to water and food

The attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes as Israeli forces continue to lay siege to northern Gaza for nearly three weeks, completely cutting off access to food, water and medicine.

Residential buildings and shelters have been bombed and hundreds of families have been bombed forced had to be evicted from their homes by Israeli forces and ordered to leave the north for areas elsewhere in Gaza that had already been destroyed during the years-long military assault on the enclave.

Nearly 43,000 dead

Ignoring a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel faces international condemnation amid its ongoing brutal offensive on Gaza.

Israel is currently on trial at the International Court of Justice for genocide against the Palestinians and has been waging a devastating war against Gaza since October 7.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 42,847 Palestinians have been killed and 100,544 injured during Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza that began on October 7, 2023.

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In addition, at least 11,000 people are missing, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes across the Strip.

Israel says 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis had been killed by “friendly fire” that day.

Ongoing genocide

Palestinian and international organizations say the majority of the dead and injured are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in acute famine, especially in northern Gaza, resulting in the deaths of many Palestinians, especially children.

Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forced displacement of nearly two million people from across the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of those displaced forced into the densely populated southern city of Rafah, near the border with Egypt – in what is Palestine’s largest city become. mass exodus since the Nakba of 1948.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in an ongoing search for safety.

(The Palestine Chronicle)