Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, described the current situation at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip as “tragic.”
Ghebreyesus explained in a post on the “X” platform on Monday that 14 people were injured during the past 48 hours at Kamal Adwan Hospital as a result of an intense attack by the Israeli army.
He confirmed that the hospital director, Doctor Hossam Abu Safiya, and some doctors were among those injured in the Israeli attacks.
He added, “This situation is very tragic, and there are still many injured people in the hospital and intensive care rooms,” calling for…Immediately stop attacks on the hospital and provide safe passage for the humanitarian mission so that medical teams can be deployed and supplies provided to the remaining patients.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, was injured on Saturday evening, in an Israeli drone attack on the hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
On October 5, the occupation army began a ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, under the pretext of “preventing the Hamas movement from regaining its power in the region,” while Palestinians say that Israel wants to occupy the northern Gaza Strip and turn it into a buffer zone after displacing its residents.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza that has left more than 149,000 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.