Israeli forces detain medics, patients after violent raid on Gaza hospital

Israeli forces person withdrawn from Kamal Adwan Hospital aft detaining dozens of medics and immoderate patients, and causing wide harm to 1 of the past functioning hospitals successful bluish Gaza, the Health Ministry successful the besieged enclave has said.

The aesculapian installation is successful disarray aft it was raided and shelled amid Israel’s three-week violative successful the north, with a apical Gaza Health Ministry authoritative urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to evacuate the wounded from the infirmary considered a lifeline for radical successful bluish Gaza.

“The odor of decease has dispersed astir the hospital,” Marwan al-Hams, manager of tract hospitals astatine Gaza’s Health Ministry, told Al Jazeera, adding that the Israeli forces destroyed the hospital’s aesculapian supplies during their raid to forestall the medics from redeeming the wounded.

More than 600 people, including patients and those accompanying them were housed successful the infirmary earlier it was raided connected Friday.

Medics said connected Saturday that astatine slightest 44 retired of the hospital’s 70-member squad had been detained by the army. Later, it was reported that 14 of those detained, including the hospital’s manager Hussam Abu Safia, were released.

“A captious shortage of aesculapian supplies, compounded by severely constricted access, are depriving radical of life-saving care,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, posted connected X connected Saturday.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting from Deir el-Balah successful cardinal Gaza said that the Israeli forces caused wide harm to the pharmaceutical warehouse and the ICU.

“Everyone knows that Kamal Adwan Hospital is considered a aesculapian lifeline for the two-thirds of Palestinians successful bluish Gaza.”

‘Shooting from each directions’

Outside the hospital, hundreds of spent slug cartridges littered the floor. Footage shared by the Health Ministry revealed harm to buildings and vandalised wards.

Nurse Mayssoun Alian said Israeli forces surrounded the infirmary successful the greeting “and determination was shooting from each directions.

“They evacuated each those who were sheltering here. They separated the men from women and made 2 queues. It was precise humiliating for our men since they were stripped of their clothes,” she told Al Jazeera.

There was chaos wrong the infirmary with patients lying connected the floor, including successful the hallways, according to footage accessed by Al Jazeera.

A diligent and witnesser successful the infirmary told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces archetypal shelled the courtyard astatine astir 5am (03:00 GMT) connected Friday.

“Thirty minutes later, bulldozers destroyed everything, including the tents lodging the displaced,” helium said. “They destroyed the hospital’s pharmacy and riddled the infirmary with bullets. They started calling for Dr Hussam implicit the loudspeakers.”

At slightest 2 children died wrong the intensive attraction portion erstwhile Israeli forces destroyed the generators and oxygen presumption connected Friday, medics said.

‘Medicide’

Kamal Adwan Hospital spokesperson Hisham Sakani told Al Jazeera that the latest battle marks the 14th clip that the infirmary has travel nether Israeli fire.

Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals since it launched the devastating warfare connected October 7, 2023. More than 42,000 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli forces and ample parts of Gaza laic successful ruins. At slightest 17 retired of 35 hospitals crossed the Strip are partially functioning.

On Friday, the UN peculiar rapporteur connected wellness utilized a caller word – medicide – to picture the wide and systematic attacks by Israel connected healthcare workers and facilities.

Gaza’s Health Ministry stated that each detained aesculapian unit were held by the Israeli subject without entree to nutrient oregon water. According to the ministry, 3 nurses were injured, and 3 ambulances were destroyed.

Among those taken was Mohamed Obeid, caput of the orthopaedics section astatine Al-Awda Hospital nearby, though his existent determination remains unknown, according to the hospital.

Footage shared connected societal media connected Saturday showed infirmary manager Abu Safia, mourning the nonaccomplishment of his insignificant son, who was killed during the two-day Israeli assault.

An Israeli subject spokesperson declined to remark connected the report. On Friday, the Israeli subject stated it had conducted operations adjacent the infirmary based connected quality indicating the beingness of “terrorists and violent infrastructure” successful the area.

A Palestinian antheral walks past the rubble aft Israeli forces withdrew from the country astir Kamal Adwan Hospital successful bluish Gaza [Reuters]

A spokesperson from the UN bureau for children said bluish Gaza is simply a catastrophe portion aft the Israeli military’s three-week crushed incursion.

“Attacks person been escalating, hospitals and schools utilized arsenic shelters haven’t been spared,” UNICEF’s Rosalia Bollen told Al Jazeera.

“It’s been highly hard to bring supplies to the northbound with lone 224 trucks reaching. But 224 trucks is the fig we’d similar to get successful connected a regular basis, not for an full month. In the hospitals, there’s nary nutrient oregon h2o for patients. There’s nary fuel, nary electricity.”

The Health Ministry reported that Israeli subject strikes connected Jabalia, Beit Hanoon, and Beit Lahiya successful bluish Gaza person killed astir 800 radical implicit the people of a three-week offensive.

A damaged ambulance is seen astatine the Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Beit Lahiya [AFP]