A photo has been shared on social media which is reported to be the last taken of Dr Abu Safiya and what appears to be two other health workers, before being abducted by Israeli forces.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has called for urgent intervention at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza where 600 Palestinians, including medical staff, are trapped inside and two children have died after the generators were shut down as Israeli forces continued to raid the facility.
“Two children have been martyred in the intensive care unit following the shutdown of the hospital generators and the targeting of the oxygen station,” the Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday night.
Israel’s attack on Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza:
⭕️Two children died after Israel attacked life-saving equipment and its main oxygen station
⭕️Male patients, health workers and displaced people were stripped and taken away
⭕️Several ambulances were damaged and health… pic.twitter.com/zja7QaVhqK— In Context (@incontextmedia) October 26, 2024
There are 195 patients, with 70 medical staff, as well as displaced families inside the hospital, according to the ministry. At the same time, the World Health Organization said four people have been injured, including three health workers, by Israeli forces.
Israeli forces “are searching the hospital and firing within various departments, increasing fear and distress,” the ministry said.
Last Picture of Dr Abu Safiya
At the same time, 44 health workers have been detained, the WHO said. Among them is the hospital’s director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
A photo has been shared on social media which is reported to be the last taken of Dr Abu Safiya and what appears to be a female doctor and another health worker, before being abducted by Israeli forces. The journalist, Abed Al-Zuwaidi and his father are also reported to be among those detained. Scores of male detainees were forced to strip to their underwear, the ministry earlier said.
A picture of Palestinian Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, during the ongoing Israeli siege on northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/UBKV57EHPQ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 26, 2024
The Health Ministry said three ambulances and one transport vehicle had been destroyed by Israeli forces, hampering relief and transport operations. The solar-powered electricity system has also been destroyed, exacerbating the crisis.
“These conditions urgently require humanitarian organizations to intervene to ensure everyone’s safety and provide essential needs,” the Ministry said.
Contact Lost
The WHO chief, Tedros Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X that the organization managed to get in touch with hospital staff on Friday night after losing all contact earlier.
Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern #Gaza is still under siege, but we managed to get in touch with the staff. Three health workers and another employee have been injured, 44 health workers have been detained and four ambulances damaged. Around 600 patients, health workers and…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) October 25, 2024
He said the “siege and attacks on health workers occurred just hours after the WHO-led mission which delivered essential supplies to keep the facility operational and took critical patients to Al-Shifa Hospital.”
Calling for a ceasefire, he demanded that hospitals, health workers and patients “be protected.”
No Access to Water, Food
The raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes as Israeli forces continue to besiege northern Gaza for almost three weeks with access to food, water and medicines completely cut off.
Residential buildings and shelters have been bombed and hundreds of families forced out of their homes by Israeli forces and ordered to leave the north for areas elsewhere in Gaza, already destroyed in the year-long military assault on the enclave.
Israel is committing some of the worst massacres in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October of 2023.
Yet, if you were to receive your news from Western corporate media, you would probably think that the most significant development of late was a drone strike on Israeli PM… pic.twitter.com/7x1YIimh2c
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) October 24, 2024
Close to 43,000 Killed
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza.
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 42,847 Palestinians have been killed, and 100,544 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.
Israeli War Disrespects International Law – UN Slams Siege of Northern Gaza
Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
Ongoing Genocide
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
⚡️BREAKING:
“We’re a few hours away from the death of all these people”
“instead of receiving aid we received tank shells”
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal
Adwan Hospital speaks from within the ICU where the injured and medical staff are huddled after having been… pic.twitter.com/zRLFp4cKe1— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) October 24, 2024
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
