BEIRUT (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Osama Hamdan has said that the Israeli occupation army’s destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is part of the Israeli “Generals’ Plan” and also aimed at ending the steadfastness of the Palestinians living in the area.
The “Generals’ Plan” is a siege and forced evacuation policy for northern Gaza, which has been outlined by former Israeli general Giora Eiland and is now being executed on the ground by the Israeli occupation army.
In press remarks on Friday, Hamdan affirmed that there were no gunmen at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, pointing out that the hospital had been under attack and siege for 75 days.
Hamdan accused the Israeli occupation government of obstructing the efforts to reach a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal, stressing that Benjamin Netanyahu wants to get rid of the Israeli captives through killing them.
“To date, the occupation has refused to cease fire completely and withdraw from Gaza. We have put forward an initiative that includes a comprehensive ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal, but Israel has rebuffed it,” Hamdan said.
He added that his Movement already agreed to a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but the Israeli government did not accept that.
Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the northernmost part of Gaza on Friday, forcing many of the staff and patients out of the facility and kidnaping others, including its director Hussam Abu Safiya.
Soldiers reportedly torched the facility, killing medical personnel and patients who had to stay inside.
The Kamal Adwan Hospital had been hit multiple times over the past three months by Israeli forces. Those attacks killed and injured a number of medical personnel, patients and civilians.
