GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, said the world’s indifference to the Israeli army’s crimes encourages it to escalate its violence against the Palestinians.
This came after a day Abu Safiya described as one of the bloodiest and most difficult days witnessed in the hospital in which the occupation army stormed the hospital on Tuesday and started opening gunfire and launching artillery shelling directly inside it.
Abu Safiya explained in a press statement on Wednesday that Israeli warplanes targeted the hospital and struck more than eight buildings in its vicinity, adding that some of the wounded came out of an inhabited building that was bombed while their bodies were on fire.
The brutal bombing resulted in the martyrdom of eight individuals, and there are still children trapped under the charred rubble.
He pointed out that “the intensive care unit, located on the western side of the hospital, was directly targeted, starting a fire that forced us to evacuate the patients quickly.”
He noted that the doctors were able to miraculously extinguish the fire with their hands and using blankets due to the lack of firefighting equipment and the cut-off of water supplies.
“We have been appealing to the world for more than 75 days, and nothing has yet been done. This indifference allows the Israeli occupation army to step up its violence, and I fear it will continue to attack other departments, which could lead to the destruction of the hospital before the eyes of the world,” he underscored.
“We currently have 71 injuries, and we have the only intensive care unit in northern Gaza,” he explained.
