GAZA CITY, Palestine ) – Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza was under siege from all sides by Israeli forces, with terrified civilians trapped inside. The siege led to a dire situation at the hospital.
The director-general of the Health Ministry in Gaza, who described the horrific situation at the hospital, saying, “Patients, injured, and those who took shelter in the hospital are gripped with fear; overwhelmed by horror.”
There is a footage from Kamal Adwan, showing bodies swaddled in white, lined up in rows in a courtyard of the medical compound. Witnesses said anyone attempting to leave was being shot at by Israeli snipers.
Al-Bursh feared a massacre inside Kamal Adwan Hospital, as happened in [al-Shifa Hospital] and the [Indonesian Hospital]”,
Meanwhile, overnight, injured people continued to stream into the hospital amid ongoing bombardment, their heads and faces covered in dust. The hundreds of evacuees taking shelter there were shown resting or being treated on the floor by medics with extremely limited resources.
One man at the medical facility told , “What do they want from us? They have already killed us. Our families and friends are dead.”
Another man explained that he moved to the hospital hoping to find safety from the Israeli air strikes, but his words were abruptly interrupted by the loud bang of an explosion that could be heard very close by.
A woman screamed, her hands shaking and her voice imbued with desperation, “We wished we were not left behind.”
Since the truce ended, Israeli forces resumed their attacks across Gaza with a renewed intensity in the north, while also expanding their operations to the south.
The situation at the Kamal Adwan Hospital echoed the events that unfolded at the al-Shifa Hospital, the biggest of the Strip, where people seeking shelter, patients in critical conditions, and doctors were ordered, some at gunpoint, to evacuate after several days of siege. Israel denied doing so.
Al-Bursh said, “The hospital is under attack by Israeli forces with the aim of evacuating all those inside the hospital. We, the medical staff, are holding our ground. We are standing by our patients and the wounded.”
