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Kamal Adwan under siege: two children die and dozens kidnapped, including the hospital director

Kamal Adwan under siege: two children die and dozens kidnapped, including the hospital director

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Kamal Adwan under siege: two children die and dozens kidnapped, including the hospital director
The last photo of Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, before being kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces during the siege and bombing of the hospital. (Photo: via social networks)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

A photograph reported to be the last one taken of Dr. Abu Safiya and what appear to be two other health workers, before they were abducted by Israeli forces, has been shared on social media.

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 inside and two children have died after generators were turned off while forces Israelis continued RAID the installation.

“Two children have been martyred in the intensive care unit following the shutdown of the hospital’s generators and the attack on the oxygen station,” the Health Ministry said in a statement late Friday.

According to the ministry, there are 195 patients, 70 medical staff and families displaced within the hospital. At the same time, the World Health Organization saying Israeli forces have injured four people, including three health workers.

Israeli forces “are searching the hospital and shooting inside several departments, increasing fear and distress,” the ministry said.

Last photo of Dr. Abu Safiya

At the same time, 44 healthcare workers have been detained, the WHO said. Among them is the director of the hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

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

The Health Ministry said Israeli forces had destroyed three ambulances and one transport vehicle, hampering relief and transportation operations. The solar-powered electrical system has also been destroyed, exacerbating the crisis.

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

Lost contact

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that the organization managed to contact hospital staff on Friday night after losing all contact earlier.

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

Calling for a ceasefire, he demanded that hospitals, health workers and patients “be protected.”

No access to water or food

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

Residential buildings and shelters have been bombed and hundreds of families forced Israeli forces expelled them from their homes and ordered them to leave the north for other areas of Gaza, already destroyed during the year-long military assault on the enclave.

Nearly 43,000 dead

Ignoring a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continuing brutal offensive against Gaza.

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

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

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

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

Genocide in progress

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

The Israeli war has caused acute famine, mainly in northern Gaza, resulting in the deaths of many Palestinians, mostly children.

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

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south toward central Gaza in a constant search for safety.

(The Palestinian Chronicle)

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