10/25/2024–|Last updated: 10/25/202405:10 PM (Mecca time)
The Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the loss of contact with the staff of Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was stormed by the Israeli army today, Friday, and detained patients, medical personnel, and displaced persons inside, in light of the genocide that northern Gaza has been subjected to for 21 days.
Ghebreyesus said that the Health Organization has lost contact with the staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital since this morning, and described what is happening in the hospital as a very disturbing development, because the site is crowded with about 200 patients suffering from horrific injuries, and there are hundreds of people who have sought protection there.
The WHO director stressed that access to hospitals throughout Gaza “has become incredibly more difficult and puts our staff at risk.”
Before losing contact with him, Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Tel Aviv Tribune that a number of hospital medical staff were injured as a result of the Israeli bombing.
Abu Safiya added that the hospital was waiting for medical aid to arrive, but instead tanks arrived.
Appeals to the free people of the world
For its part, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip appealed to the “free people of the world” to use all means to save Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The ministry said in a statement, “We do not understand how the world allows itself to stand by and watch the most horrific genocide and the most widespread systematic process of destroying the health system and killing and arresting patients and medical staff without doing anything.”
Hamas also considered the Israeli army’s storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital a “war crime with American support.”
The movement said in a statement, “The occupation army storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia project, imposing a siege on it, arresting the sick, wounded, medical staff, and displaced families, and taking them to an unknown destination is a war crime and a flagrant violation of international laws.”
She added, “The Zionist occupation government continues to commit a war of genocide in the northern Gaza Strip, not caring about any repercussions, in light of the full support and protection provided by the American administration to it.”
She pointed out that “the massacres and criminal bombardment taking place in northern Gaza, focused on homes and the blowing up of residential squares on the heads of their residents, which led to the martyrdom of dozens of innocent people – most of them children and women – is a Zionist continuation of the ethnic cleansing campaign.”
The movement called on the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries to “assume their responsibilities towards protecting our people and not be satisfied with statements of condemnation, and to take action to stop the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing they are being subjected to.”
Hamas held the international community and its institutions “politically and morally responsible for the continuation of these crimes and the collapse of values resulting from the continued violations of international laws.”
Investigation and persecution
In turn, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory confirmed that the Israeli occupation bears responsibility for the lives of dozens of children, patients, wounded, and members of the medical staff it detains after storming Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The Observatory said in a statement that it received information that the occupation forces separated men from women and children, and began subjecting all those over the age of 13 to interrogation and torture – including medical personnel – and assaulting them.
#image For a moment, the occupation army arrested dozens of citizens from Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, forced them to take off their clothes, and gathered them in a large square before taking them to an unknown destination. #Tel Aviv Tribune pic.twitter.com/uMEAxBFkVE
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) October 25, 2024
He pointed out that 15 patients in the intensive care room – including children – are at risk of death after the Israeli army bombed the hospital’s oxygen station, and there is preliminary information about the death of a number of children due to lack of oxygen.
The Euro-Mediterranean Monitor called on the United Nations and international organizations to assume their responsibilities and oblige the Israeli occupation to release and protect medical staff, the sick and the wounded, and to ensure the resumption of the work of the hospital, ambulance crews and civil defense, to save what can be saved of the lives of thousands of Palestinians there.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory warned that the conditions in northern Gaza are catastrophic in an unprecedented manner, as homes are being bombed and burned, and there are no ambulance or civil defense crews to assist in rescue.
The Israeli incursion and bombing of various areas of the North Gaza Governorate continues, coinciding with the army’s continued efforts to empty the area of its residents through evacuation and forced displacement.
On October 5, the Israeli army began unprecedented bombing operations on the camp and town of Jabalia and large areas in the northern Gaza Strip, before announcing the next day the start of its invasion under the pretext of “preventing the Hamas movement from regaining its power in the region,” while the Palestinians say that Israel wants In occupying the region and displacing its residents.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza that has left more than 143,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded – most of them children and women – and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
