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Trapped medical staff injured at Gaza’s besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital as Israeli soldiers open fire
Three members of the medical staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have sustained injuries, ranging from mild to moderate, according to the head of nursing, Palestinian media reports.
Reports of injuries follow after Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli soldiers opened fire inside the hospital, which has been placed under an Israeli military siege for weeks.
Medical workers remains inside the hospital with sick and injured patients, the hospital’s head of nursing said, while evacuation orders by the Israeli military had forced some of their companions, as well as displaced women and children sheltering at the facility, to leave.
Israeli forces arrest all male medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital
The Israeli siege of northern Gaza is now in its 22nd day. It has also been targeting Kamal Adwan Hospital.
This is what the Palestinian Health Ministry said:
- At the moment, Israeli forces have arrested all male medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in addition to a number of wounded and sick inside the hospital. They detained women in one of the rooms inside the hospital without water or food.
- We appeal to all international institutions and concerned authorities to intervene urgently to protect patients and medical staff working at the hospital.
Everything outside Gaza is ‘a distraction’ to the situation inside
Everything that happens outside Gaza serves as distraction from the situation on the ground, particularly in the northern part of the Strip and the Jabalia refugee camp. The most heartbreaking part of this all is that hospitals are no longer sacred spaces for healing. They have been transformed into military sites by the Israeli army.
Among the 600 people trapped inside the hospitals, 200 – including wounded patients and those in the ICU – currently have no access to medical care.
On top of that, we’ve seen a video of the mass arrest of people, where the Israeli military separated men from women, the female medical staff from the male medical staff. The male medical staff were ordered to strip to their underwear, blindfolded, handcuffed and taken to unknown areas for interrogation.
Everybody else is locked inside rooms with no access to food or water supplies for the second day.
Gaza’s civil defence unable to respond to emergency calls amid ongoing Israeli offensive
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said it has been unable to respond to emergency calls from residents in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, as the region continues to endure a 22-day-long siege.
“We are unable to respond to numerous pleas for help from homes that have been targeted and burned by Israeli bombardment in Jabalia and Jabalia Nazla in northern Gaza,” it said in a statement.
“Civil Defense operations have been completely halted due to ongoing Israeli targeting and aggression in northern Gaza.”
A displaced Palestinian girl on the border of Jabalia refugee camp
Death toll rises in Gaza
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 42,924 Palestinians have been killed and 100,833 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since last year.
