Israeli forces enter Kamal Adwan Hospital, tell staff, patients to evacuate towards tanks
Dr Eid Sabbah, director of nursing at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al Jazeera earlier about the latest attack by Israeli forces on the medical facility on Friday that killed about 30 people.
“Since the beginning of this attack and since the beginning of this aggression, the hospital of Kamal Adwan in northern Gaza has been under attack from the Israeli military,” Dr Sabbah told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview.
“What happened this morning is that Israeli tanks were approaching in a very fast manner, as close as 50 metres to the hospital. People that we didn’t know were sent inside the hospital wearing different uniforms and equipped with weapons and speakers,” Sabbah said.
“They sent a message to [hospital director] Dr Hussam Abu Safia and his colleagues, and the occupation forces asked them to evacuate the hospital, including patients and medical staff. They asked them to evacuate towards the tanks,” he said.
“Shortly after they demanded the evacuation of all patients and the injured, this operation led to the killing of 30 people inside the hospital including four staff members. They were targeted and killed.”
Victims of an Israeli attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip are treated at the medical complex on Friday
Footage shows moment Israeli forces fire on ambulance outside Gaza hospital
As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has carried out several deadly attacks over the past day as it has laid siege to the Kamal Adwan Hospital and the surrounding area in northern Gaza.
One such attack – caught on video in a clip authenticated by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit – involved Israeli forces opening fire on a Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance.
At least 29 people have been killed in the assault so far. We will bring you updates when we have them.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades targets Netzarim Corridor with rocket fire: Monitors
The Palestinian armed group, one of several smaller factions fighting alongside Hamas in Gaza, launched rockets on Friday at Israeli forces operating along the military access road, war monitors report.
The Netzarim Corridor, built by the Israeli military to cut the Gaza Strip in two and allow for rapid deployment of forces, has been under near-daily attacks from Palestinian resistance fighters in the war-torn Strip.
US-based defence think tanks, the Critical Threats Project (CTP) and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), also said that Israeli forces were engaged in demolishing civilian infrastructure in northern Gaza’s besieged Jabalia refugee camp and the town of Beit Lahiya on Friday.
We reported earlier that huge explosions had been heard in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Jabalia refugee camp in what was believed to be Israeli demolitions of Palestinian-owned buildings.
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