The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, Hossam Abu Safiya, announced on Tuesday that the entire health system in the region had collapsed, and that those wounded in Israeli raids who arrived at the hospital were dying due to lack of resources.
Abu Safiya told the Anatolia correspondent: There are international delegations present in the southern Gaza Strip or abroad. We want the whole world to put pressure on Israel urgently so that these delegations and medical teams, especially surgical ones, arrive in northern Gaza with medical supplies before it is too late.
He added that the health system is completely collapsed in northern Gaza, and any of the wounded who reach the hospital die, in light of the difficult reality that the health sector is going through.
He called for the necessity of bringing in ambulances and fuel, after the Israeli army destroyed several vehicles and put them out of service, noting that there are no ambulances in the northern Gaza Strip.
He continued: There is no means of transporting the injured, and the wounded who reach us either come themselves or are transported by citizens, and during this journey their blood runs out and they die.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital stressed that Israel is waging a war of purification and extermination in northern Gaza against the people and the health system.
He pointed out that there is only one doctor left in Kamal Adwan Hospital and he cannot provide any surgical service to the injured.
He added: We have a case of a child who needs to explore the abdomen to stop the bleeding, and this requires a surgeon who is not available. There are children whose bones have come out of their bodies and they need orthopedic surgery, and there are brain injuries that need neurologists.
Abu Safiya described the situation as catastrophic in every sense of the word, and the wounded were dying in the streets because they were not transferred to hospitals and the lack of medical supplies and personnel.
He pointed out that there are more than 150 wounded people in Kamal Adwan Hospital and we cannot provide them with anything but first aid, warning that a wounded person will be lost every hour due to the lack of doctors and medical personnel.
Earlier Tuesday, Israeli aircraft targeted a house for the Abu Nasr family in the Beit Lahia project area, which consisted of several floors and was inhabited by 200 people.
The government media office in Gaza said, in a statement, that the occupation army committed a terrible massacre by bombing a residential building in Beit Lahia, in which more than 200 civilians were martyred, including 93 people, more than 40 missing, and dozens injured.
The office added that the occupation army knew that the residential building contained dozens of displaced civilians, and that the majority of them were children and women who had been displaced from their civilian neighborhoods.