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Gaza Health Ministry identifies Kamal Adwan Hospital staff killed in Israeli attack
We reported earlier that as many as 50 people have been reported killed in an Israeli air strike on a building near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
Five members of staff from the hospital were also killed in the attack, according the hospital’s director and Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
The medical staff have been identified as Dr Ahmed Samour, a paediatrician, and Israa Abu Zaida, a laboratory technician, both of whom were killed in the blast while trying to return to their homes from the hospital, according to a statement from the ministry and the hospital.
Health technologist Fares al-Houdali was also killed while trying to rescue the injured following the attack. And two paramedics, Abdul Majeed Abu al-Aish and Maher al-Ajrami, were killed near the hospital, and “their bodies are still in the street”, according to the statement.
Palestinians gather following an Israeli attack on the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surrounding buildings in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, on December 25
Israeli military sends Kamal Adwan Hospital stark evacuation warning, communication lost
This morning, Israel pushed deeper into the area surrounding Kamal Adwan Hospital. Israeli armoured tanks advanced deeper under heavy cover from quadcopter machineguns.
Explosive devices had already been planted in the vicinity of the hospital. Four were set off near the northern gate, at the back entrance, causing damage to the compound and sparking fires in some of the buildings around it.
Israeli officers called on loudspeakers to the director of the hospital and for the injured and the patients to come out of the hospital within 15 minutes. This happened at about 7:15am [05:15 GMT].
We haven’t had any communication from the hospital since, as it seems that all communication means have been disconnected in preparation most likely for the storming of the hospital.
Kamal Adwan patients leave hospital, gather in courtyard of besieged facility: Report
We are receiving reports that Israel’s military has forced dozens of sick and injured patient to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital. About 75 patients are now in the courtyard of the facility, which has been under sustained attack for weeks, and many have no protection from the cold weather in Gaza, a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza wrote on social media.
Israeli military storms Kamal Adwan Hospital
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reports that the Israeli military has raided the hospital in northern Gaza.
Gaza’s health director says contact lost with Kamal Adwan Hospital
The director of the Gaza Health Ministry has told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have stormed the northern Gaza hospital and forced out 350 people, including all the patients and staff who were there at that moment. He said contact with the hospital was lost and the ambulances that went there did not return to deliver any news of what is going on.
The director added the Israeli army burned down part of the hospital yesterday.
A view of destruction following the Israeli attack on the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surrounding buildings in Beit Lahya, Gaza, Wednesday
‘End of humanity’ in northern Gaza as Kamal Adwan Hospital evacuated: Doctor
American doctor Mimi Syed, an emergency physician currently on her second medical mission inside Gaza, has told Al Jazeera that the Israeli military’s order to evacuate the Kamal Adwan Hospital spells the “end of humanity” in northern Gaza, as no health facility will now be operating in the area.
About 75 patients are estimated to be at the facility. Their conditions and whereabouts are unknown as all communications have been severed since the military issued the forcible evacuation threat earlier today.
Syed said patients require treatment and often electrical appliances that cannot be operated outside the hospital. “I can totally imagine deaths taking place as a result of that,” she said. The doctor added that any surviving patients would likely arrive at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, where she is operating.
She said the health system in these medical facilities has already collapsed as there is not enough food, water or electricity available. “I can’t imagine another influx of patients coming into a health system that is already broken,” she said.
