Israeli raid empties the last hospital in Nordgaza and arrested director

Israeli raid empties the last hospital in Nordgaza and arrested director

northern Gaza's last remaining large hospital is out of operation after an attack of Israeli troops, since the building was badly damaged and the patients and doctors had to be evacuated. According to the United Nations, around 75,000 Palestinians who live in the north of the Gaza Strip are in danger.

attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital

On Friday, Israeli forces carried out an attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. The prominent director of the hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, arrested, under the accusation of being a suspected "Hamas terrorist". The attack has led to the hospital that the hospital is "empty" of patients according to the World Health Organization (WHO), some of them in critical condition.

accommodation of critical cases

patients who were in critical condition were transferred to the Indonesian hospital, which is also out of function. Some other patients were moved to the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The WHO plans to send a mission to the Indonesian hospital in order to transport the evacuated patients to the south of Gazas for further treatment.

consequences of the destruction

Mohammed Salha, director of the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, which hardly works due to recent air raids and is hardly damaged, informed that the Kamal Adwan Hospital was "completely out of operation". In addition, his own hospital has little fuel and is overcrowded with patients, despite limited resources. "We only have a surgeon who only operates in life -threatening cases," said Salha.

Approval for patient transport

Salha further explained that his hospital was dependent on the approval of the Israeli military in order to be able to move further south from the north of Gazas. The attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital took place in several parts of the northern Gaza as part of renewed Israeli air and soil surgery, which aims at a reconcilable Hamas presence in the region. These attacks have transformed the streets into rubble, killed entire families and greatly reduced the supply of food, water and medical supplies.

blow against Israeli military claims

The Israeli defense forces (IDF) announced at the weekend that they had arrested at least 240 "Hamas and Islamic jihad terrorists" around the hospital and claimed that the facility was used as a "terrorist center" by Hamas. On Monday, the military announced that the troops had "identified and switched off several terrorists in the area at night". After the arrest of Dr. Abu Safiya claimed the Israeli military that the hospital was used as a “command post” by Hamas without providing evidence.

international incomprehension

The arrest of Abu Safiya met with outrage among Palestinians, the United Nations and Human Rights. Amnesty International described him as "the voice of the devastated health sector in Gaza" and added that Israel has arrested hundreds of Palestinian health personnel from Gaza without charges or procedures since the beginning of the war. In an explanation on X Wies Amnesty that "health workers are exposed to torture and other abuse and are kept in isolated custody".

auxiliary measures in times of crisis

While the Nordgaza hospitals are out of operation, help only achieves a small number of hundreds of thousand Palestinians who are trapped in the region. Since October 6, 2023, when the concentrated operations of Israel began in the north, according to the United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian matters (OCHA), 5,565 truck charges have been found in the Gaza strips.

permits and missing relief goods

Since December 1st, the Israeli authorities have rejected 48 out of 52 UN inquiries for the coordination of humanitarian aid in northern Gaza. Ocha reported that the "four approved movements all met with obstacles". On December 26, Ocha announced that 27 trucks with relief goods came to Gaza on this day, while there are no records of further aid deliveries after December 26th.

extreme emergencies and tragic losses

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza - food shortages, lack of accommodations and medication - is still tightened by a sudden slump in the cold. Gaza's Ministry of Health announced that a 20 day old newborn died due to the cold, the fifth death in the past week. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a surgeon in Gaza, said on X that hypothermia, malnutrition and injuries represent the main causes of deaths. "In Gaza, this means that people die of hypothermia at higher temperatures, starve faster and succumb to less serious injuries," he wrote.

Report by CNNS ABEER Salman, Irene Nasser, Jomana Karadsheh, Tarq al Hilou and Hira Humayun.