Gaza- In an organized crime, Israel is getting rid of the last lifeline for about 20,000 Palestinians besieged in the northern governorate of the Gaza Strip, by storming Kamal Adwan Hospital and setting it on fire, devouring its vital departments, from operations and surgery to maintenance and laboratories, and remaining burning amid the complete absence of all means of extinguishing the fire to save lives. The remaining buildings.
Although this is the third storming of the hospital during the aggression against Gaza, this burning is the first, in a scene that brings back to the memory of Gazans the black image of the Shifa Medical Complex, which was burned by the occupation army 9 months ago on March 18, 2024.
Details of the crime
A private source told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that fire belts and artillery and air bombardment began around two o’clock in the morning around the hospital’s vicinity, before Israeli vehicles advanced and completely besieged it. He explained, “When the vehicles arrived, the officer called the hospital director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, and asked him to evacuate the hospital.” Except for the wounded who cannot walk.” These orders were followed by a direct threat to Abu Safiya with arrest for “inciting against Israel,” as they described it.
The hospital was housing more than 80 patients and 350 medical personnel and companions, and private sources confirmed to Tel Aviv Tribune Net that the occupation soldiers evacuated a number of the wounded to the Indonesian hospital, which is already out of service, and they also cut off oxygen for a large number of them, which put their lives in severe danger.
Amal, one of the eyewitnesses who arrived at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, told Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “The occupation soldiers ordered us to go to an area opposite Al Fakhoura School, then they separated the men after stripping them of their clothes, and forced them to sit in two large holes in preparation for interrogation.”
She added, “As for us, they ordered us to take off the hijab, but we refused. Then they ordered us to remove our clothes, and they rained insults on us and beat us before forcing us to move to the west of Gaza City.” Amal left all of her bags after walking a long distance on the rugged, destroyed roads, between the tanks, and said, “I cannot cross… Scenes of children and patients crying and begging the soldiers for water to no avail.”
Until the moment of preparing the report, the number of arrivals from “Kamal Adwan” and its surroundings did not exceed the fingers of two hands, in a crime committed in secret, away from the eyes of the world, and in light of the scarcity of information and the loss of communication with those who were in the hospital and the surrounding areas, and many of them were led to an unknown fate, This represents a war on the last facilities of life in the northern Gaza Strip, to force those in it to displace and make it an area unsuitable for human living, and to kill everything that helps those steadfast there to survive.
New geography
Since October 5, Israeli forces have launched a large-scale ground operation for the third time in Jabalia, then gradually extended it to include the cities of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, and imposed a complete siege on every governorate north of the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune Net monitored testimonies from survivors who were recently displaced to Gaza City, describing the conditions of the besieged north and the horrors they experienced.
Journalist Moaz Al-Kahlot is trying to comprehend the details of the new geography during his exodus from the northern Gaza Strip, after an 80-day steadfastness in the face of death and destruction. The features of the road became blurry for the camp resident. He looked left and right, trying in vain to recall the features of the neighborhoods and streets in which he had lived for many years.
Moaz says with a sigh, “I stood at the entrance to the neighborhood that embraced me for decades, but I did not recognize anything from the traces of 400 houses, and I did not distinguish a single stone among them,” and he added, “Everything was covered in ash, no colors, no life, and the smell of gunpowder mixed with the scent of death.” Which is widespread in the air, while the ground is filled with corpses scattered in an indescribable scene.”
While Moaz lowered his head to preserve what remained of his memory, which had been distorted by the occupation, he was surprised by the Israeli flag flying on a flagpole at the entrance to the checkpoint. He describes that moment, saying, “Feelings of brokenness, oppression, and anger swept through me until they reached the marrow of my soul.”
Moaz’s motivation for staying in Jabalia was to “convey the truth to the world,” he says, as he defied fear and threats, but in the end he was forced to leave. He says, “The price of my stay was my nerves and my health, and it would have cost me my life and the life of my family if I stayed a little longer.”
The most difficult days of his life were those he spent trying to secure water and food for his family, amidst endless fear and destruction that not only engulfed homes, but also affected streets, infrastructure, sewage pipes, and electricity poles, and changed the features of shops, facilities, hospitals, and even schools.” There is no longer a place where a person can find shade,” he said.
Exit from heaven
From her small tent in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, where she was displaced from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Manar Al-Kilani speaks to Al-Jazeera Net as she recalls her memories of the home she left, and says, “I cannot believe that I will not sit again in the garden of my house, which I used to see as a paradise in which I could rest after the day.” Long work in Gaza, now everything has become a memory.” When asked about the reason for her refusal to be displaced, Manar’s constant answer is, “Can any of you bear to leave Paradise?”
But Manar describes a harsh experience that she lived for 66 days in Beit Lahia, and recalls the morning of displacement with painful details. She says, “We wanted to die in our homes, but the quadcopters surprised us with an urgent call over the loudspeakers. They asked us to evacuate the Beit Lahia schools within just five minutes.”
She describes those difficult moments by saying, “We remained in our places, looking at each other in terrible silence. I was turning to my brothers and wondering: Should we leave them here alone or risk passing through the Israeli checkpoint?” But the confusion did not last long; shells began to fall around us, forcing us to flee in a flash. “It cannot be forgotten.”
“At the Israeli checkpoint, the pain was beyond description,” Manar says. “The worst thing I saw was the mothers’ looks at their young children as they stripped them of their clothes during the search, and the young men’s looks at their children as they tried to reassure them despite the fear,” and she added that one of the soldiers was screaming madly: “ I’m crazy!” he shoots randomly, “while we were trying to protect our children’s heads and trembling bodies.”
This ordeal was not the last thing Manar faced. After a few days of displacement, she received the news of her fiancé’s martyrdom. She said in a voice overflowing with sadness, “He was trying to save those trapped under the rubble in Izbet Beit Hanoun when he was martyred. I could not believe that I had lost him, but he left trying to save others.” “.
It is not a ground operation
The Israeli army forces completely neutralized the work of the Civil Defense, Ambulance and Emergency Service, when they targeted their only point of work in the Al-Fakhoura area, arrested 5 of its workers, and forced the rest to flee.
In an interview with Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal, he described what is happening in the north of the region as “ethnic cleansing and the drying up of the Palestinian presence,” refusing to call it a “ground operation.” Basal pointed to the tragic situation that the residents are suffering from, explaining that dealing with the bodies of the martyrs has become Almost impossible under the current circumstances.
He said, “No one can bury the martyrs, so their bodies remain dumped in the streets, vulnerable to being mauled by stray dogs,” adding bitterly, “Even the dogs became satiated from the large number of corpses they fed on.”
Basal added that the remaining population faces a deadly danger, stressing that “everyone who moves will be killed and eradicated.” He pointed out that there are only about 20,000 citizens still in the north of the region, warning that “if the world does not move to save them, their lives will be lost and they will face the same fate.” same”.
As for the government media office, it revealed in a special statement to Tel Aviv Tribune Net the outcome of 80 days of systematic aggression against the northern Gaza Strip governorate, noting that the number of victims exceeded 4,800 martyrs and missing persons, in addition to more than 12,500 injured, and more than 1,900 detainees.
In this context, Ismail Al-Thawabta, Director General of the Government Information Office, stated that the Israeli occupation continues to commit “the most heinous crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing” against unarmed civilians, targeting all necessities of life. He explained that the attacks affected humans and stone alike, with comprehensive destruction of infrastructure. Infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, homes and vital facilities.
Al-Thawabta added, “What is happening is a disgrace on the international community, which stands unable to take real and tangible steps to stop these ongoing massacres,” stressing that the occupation will not succeed in achieving its goals in this war, most notably the forced displacement plan against the Palestinian people, and that “the occupation “He will not escape punishment for his ongoing crimes against humanity.”