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Medical sources claim staff members killed in Kamal Adwan Hospital fire
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least five staff members at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza were burned alive after Israeli forces set fire to several different parts of the medical facility.
The Israeli military released a statement on Friday saying that they are conducting the operation in and around the hospital in northern Gaza because they claim that Hamas is using it as a stronghold and that fighters are also using the hospital for military activities.
The Israeli army often uses these claims about hospitals, but they have never proved them.
Most notable was the raid on al-Shifa Hospital back in 2023 when the military said Hamas was using al-Shifa as a command and control centre, claims that to this day have still never been proven.
Now, Kamal Adwan was the last functioning Hospital in northern Gaza, but again, it was barely functioning because of the siege that was put forward by Israeli forces – a siege on food, water, and all other sorts of medical supplies.
Israel using remote-controlled APCs to deliver explosives in assaults on Gaza
Witnesses inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital reported this week that Israel was using “robots” to attack the medical facility which had resulted in huge explosions that caused casualties among patients and medical staff.
Israeli media organisation Ynet now reports that remotely-controlled armoured vehicles (APC) packed with explosives are a new tactic developed by the Israeli military to clear areas in Gaza they believe have been booby-trapped with explosives.
A video shared with Al Jazeera earlier this week showed the moment an APC deposited a box marked “danger” outside the hospital, which later exploded injuring patients and staff in a hail of shrapnel.
Ynet said the new tactic involves packing old Israeli M-113 APCs with explosives, which are then driven by remote control to a location. The explosives are then detonated to clear the way for infantry to advance.
The news site said Israelis had felt the shockwaves from the “earth-shaking” blasts as far away as Tel Aviv.
Israeli officer denies soldiers stormed, set fire to Gaza hospital: Report
Israeli army Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said a preliminary investigation found “no connection” between Israel’s military activity and “a small fire” that broke out in the Kamal Adwan Hospital, The Times of Israel reports.
Shoshani told the Israeli news outlet that reports of Israeli soldiers setting fire to the hospital were “unsubstantiated”.
Witness accounts collected by Al Jazeera and other media outlets contradict these claims, while the UN’s World Health Organization said reports indicate that “key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid”.
Shoshani claimed that Israeli forces had “facilitated the secure evacuation of civilians, patients and medical personnel prior to the operation” against the hospital, which has been under regular and deadly attack by Israel’s military for weeks.
Palestinians displaced from Kamal Adwan Hospital suffered beatings, cold
Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting that about 400 people including medical staff, patients and the displaced were released after being detained by the Israeli military during the storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
Some arrived in the Jabalia an-Nazla area of northern Gaza on foot. They said they were beaten with rifle butts and left out in the cold for long hours, including those who were injured and the elderly.
Medical staff said direct bombing hit the archive, sterilisation and maintenance departments, igniting a fire that quickly spread to the patients’ wards, operating rooms and laboratory.
Some attempted to extinguish the flames using water from the dialysis machine, which was mixed with chlorine, and suffered burns to their hands and faces.
The fate of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, is still unknown.
