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Doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital under direct attack: Director

A video posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows Dr Hossam Abu Safia, the director of the hospital in North Gaza, speaking about the ongoing Israeli army siege.

He said Israeli snipers, positioned around the hospital, have fired directly at staff in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

Abu Safia added that the army targeted the hospital’s power generators a short while ago, causing a power outage.

He appealed for international protection for his staff and demanded that they be spared from direct and indirect attacks by the Israeli army.

Kamal Adwan Hospital has been under a state of siege by the Israeli army for weeks as it carries out what experts have told Al Jazeera is an ethnic cleansing operation in the northern Strip.


Israeli forces deploy explosive-laden robots around Kamal Adwan hospital

We’ve been covering Israel’s weeks-long assault on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Beit Lahiya, where staff have reported sniper attacks on the facility’s intensive care unit.

An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in Gaza is now reporting that Israeli forces have sent in three explosive-laden robots to the area around the hospital.

The Gaza-based Al-Aqsa TV also said Israeli quadcopter drones have dropped more than 10 bombs on the hospital in recent hours, causing a fire to break out on the facility’s third floor.