Newborn babies wounded as Israel attacks Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
Eid Sabbah, the director of nursing at Kamal Adwan Hospital, said Israel’s attack on the facility wounded newborn babies and forced the evacuation of its nursery.
“The children’s ward with the incubators was hit by Israeli warplanes and quad-copter drones. The upper floors were damaged and some of the children and newborn babies were injured,” he told Al Jazeera by telephone. “Journalists, nurses and other medical staff were also injured,” he said.
“The nurses took the children to the lower floors but those floors don’t have the equipment needed to cater to the newborns who need incubators and intensive care. Those children and newborns came under direct fire. One child was forced to have emergency surgery. The staff were shocked by this new attack because we had already come under fire just the day before.”
The hospital – which continues to receive people wounded in Israel’s intensified attacks on northern Gaza – has called for urgent international intervention and the establishment of a humanitarian passage for the delivery of medical supplies.
“There are 125 patients in the hospital, including children and the wounded. The incubator had eight babies and the Intensive Care Unit has seven newborns and children who all need to be on a ventilator,” he told Al Jazeera.
But Israel’s attack damaged the upper floors, where the children’s ward was located, forcing staff to move the babies and children to the lower floors, which do not have the same equipment. “So they [the babies and children] are direct victims of these attacks,” Sabbah said.
He noted that Israeli forces have detained dozens of the hospital’s staff, including surgeons, neurologists and paediatricians, during last week’s raid. “The hospital is extremely understaffed as a result. There are four doctors and 50 volunteers, medical workers and nurses. They can’t cope with the huge influx of wounded people and there are no supplies,” he said.
“Israeli forces have destroyed warehouses and the pharmacy storing supplies and many of the facilities in the hospital have been destroyed.”
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Civilians rushed to the scene to dig for survivors, using their bare hands.
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A mother of one of the people killed said they were burned in the attack while they were sleeping.
