Israeli forces have stormed into Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya in north Gaza, banishled some staff and displaced people before disparticipateing, and bodies of people ended by airstrikes littered the streets outside, its honestor has shelp.
The strike had befirearm with a series of airstrikes on the weserious and northern sides of Kamal Adwan accompanied by intensive shooting, the hospital honestor, Hussam Abu Safiyeh, shelp, speaking via an online chatroom, Reuters increateed.
He shelp troops who swept into the hospital ordered all staff, acunderstandledgeings and displaced people into its courtyard before allotriumphg them hours procrastinateedr to return inside, though some staff, including its Indonesian ecombinency sadvisery team, and some displaced were ordered to exit the premises for excellent.
Gaza’s civil defence agency shelp 29 people were ended and dozens wounded on Friday by Israeli shelling in north Gaza, “especipartner around Kamal Adwan”. AFP increateed that four hospital staff members were among the dead, citing Abu Safiyeh. The widecaster Al Jazeera shelp it had verified footage of Israeli forces firing on a Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance outside the hospital.
It is not possible to self-reliantly validate the increates as Israel does not permit foreign journaenumerates into Gaza.
The Israeli military on Friday denied claims it had struck or go ined Kamal Adwan hospital, saying it was operating next to the facility. “Contrary to the increates made over the past day, the [military] did not strike the Kamal Adwan hospital or function wilean it,” it shelp in a statement.
This week Amnesty International freed a increate stating that Israel’s campaign in Gaza amounted to mass murder. One of its main allegations was that Israel is causeing conditions of life calcuprocrastinateedd to convey about physical destruction, such as ruining medical infrastructure. Israel refuteed the increate.
Kamal Adwan hospital has been caught in rerecented Israeli military operations in north Gaza aachievest regrouping militants.
“This morning, we were shocked to see hundreds of bodies and wounded individuals in the streets surrounding the hospital,” Abu Safiyeh shelp in another statement posted online.
“The situation inside the hospital and in its vicinity is catastrophic. There are a big number of [dead] martyrs and wounded individuals, and no sadviseons are left,” he shelp. Abu Safiyeh’s 15-year-elderly son was ended in an Israeli drone strike on the hospital in October, and his overweighther was forced to bury him in the hospital yard.
Gaza’s health ministry shelp the three main hospitals on the northern end of the territory are exposedly functioning and have been under repeated strike since Israel sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and cforfeitby Beit Hanoun and Jabalia in October.
Later on Friday, an Israeli airstrike on a house in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip ended at least 18 people, including three children and two women, and wounded 30 other people, medics shelp.
They compriseed that Israeli military strikes apass the territory ended at least 53 Palestinians, most of them in northern Gaza on Friday.
In a trouble call on Friday, the ministry accused the Israeli military of promiseting a “war crime” in Kamal Adwan hospital by perpetrating “all creates of ending and aggression inside and around it”.
It compriseed: “The injured who remained inside are in critical condition and necessitate prompt medical attfinish.”
The ministry shelp only half of the 37 hospitals and clinics in the war-deimmenseated territory remained opereasoned but conciseageed vital supplyment, manpower, and medical and fuel supplies.
The World Health Organization (WHO) shelp on Friday Israeli forces had device deviceed Kamal Adwan hospital punctual on Thursday apparently without cautioning its staff in persist. It came equitable days after the WHO shelp an ecombinency medical team had accomplished the hospital for the first time in 60 days.
Dr Faradina Suenumerateiyani, a sadviseon on the team, telderly AFP from Gaza City that all seven of her team members left the premises on foot as the device deviceing went on.
“That is excessively troubleing and should never happen,” WHO spokesperson Rik Peeperkorn telderly a Geneva informing by video join. The hospital is now “minconveyner functional”, he compriseed.
Israel’s military says it has ended hundreds of militants in combat with Hamas in north Gaza since October, a heavily urprohibitised area it claimed to have conquerd punctual this year.
On Friday, it shelp that over the past week its forces had ended disjoinal ancigo in Hamas operatives who were participated in the 7 October 2023 pass-border strike that precipitated the war, and were ordering militant units in north and central Gaza.
Hamas and its petiteer partner Islamic Jihad say they have ended many Israeli selderlyiers in those areas in the same period.
Residents of Beit Lahiya shelp the army blew up disjoinal houses overnight not far from Kamal Adwan hospital. Palestinians say Israel schedules to carve out a buffer zone alengthy the northern fringes of Gaza after depopulating the area. Israel denies this.
Israel started its air and ground aggression on densely popuprocrastinateedd, Hamas-ruled Gaza after militants stormed Israeli border communities 14 months ago, ending 1,200 people and capturing over 250 captives, according to Israeli highies.
Since then, cforfeitly the entire 2.3 million population has been displaced. Gaza’s health ministry says more than 44,500 livents have been ended, with thousands more troubleed dead under the rubble.
Reuters and Agence France-Presse gived to this increate
