10/26/2024–|Last updated: 10/26/202401:25 PM (Mecca time)
Today, Saturday, the occupation forces arrested all medical personnel at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to a number of wounded and sick residents in the hospital that they stormed yesterday.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza stated in a statement that the occupation detained the women in one of the rooms inside the hospital without water or food. The Ministry appealed to international and international institutions and concerned parties to intervene urgently to protect patients and medical personnel working there.
Yesterday, Friday, the government media office in Gaza announced the interruption of communications with medical teams inside Kamal Adwan Hospital following the Israeli army’s storming of it.
The World Health Organization also announced that it had lost contact with this hospital, which was stormed by the Israeli army and arrested hundreds of patients, wounded, displaced people, and medical personnel, according to the Ministry of Health.
It is noteworthy that the occupation forces, after repeated bombardment the day before yesterday, Thursday, on Kamal Adwan Hospital, which houses approximately 600 people, including children, patients, and members of medical staff, stormed the health institution yesterday and forced everyone to gather in its courtyard.
This comes at a time when the health authorities in the Gaza Strip announced yesterday the death of two infants inside the intensive care department of Kamal Adwan Hospital after its generators stopped and the oxygen station was targeted by the occupation forces.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service in Gaza announced on Saturday that it was unable to reach distress calls from citizens in the northern Gaza Strip. Their homes were bombed and burned due to its work being forcibly interrupted by attacks by the Israeli occupation army.
The agency said in a statement today, “We are unable to respond to many calls and appeals that we receive from homes that were subjected to Israeli bombing and burning in the town of Jabalia al-Nazla” in the northern Gaza Strip, adding that the civil defense is completely forcibly disabled due to the ongoing Israeli targeting and aggression in the northern Gaza Strip.
Last Wednesday, the Civil Defense announced that the Israeli army had suspended its services, targeted its crews, and threatened workers with direct targeting if they went to use their vehicles in ambulance and rescue operations.
The Israeli incursion and bombing of various areas of the North Gaza Governorate continues, coinciding with the continued efforts of the occupation army to empty the area of its residents through evacuation and forced displacement.
On October 5, the Israeli occupation army began unprecedented bombardment of the camp and town of Jabalia and large areas in the northern Gaza Strip, before invading it the next day under the pretext of preventing the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas from regaining its power in the region, while the Palestinians say that Israel wants to Occupying the region and displacing its residents.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza that left more than 143,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst… Humanitarian disasters in the world.
Tel Aviv continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.