GENEVA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Israeli occupation forces (IOF) deliberately target medical teams in the northern Gaza Strip in an attempt to completely destroy the health system and impose deadly living conditions, killing the Palestinians and depriving them of accessing life-saving medical care.
In a statement on Thursday evening, the Euro-Med said, “We documented the targeting of Dr. Saeed Jouda on Thursday afternoon when he was killed while heading from Kamal Adwan Hospital to the Al-Awda Hospital to treat some cases.”
The statement highlighted that Dr. Jouda was martyred by a quadcopter drone attack that hit him in the head, which means his killing was deliberate, noting that he was the last orthopedic doctor in the northern Gaza Strip.
Last Sunday, the IOF killed the paramedic Ali Al-Qara, in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia Project.
The Israeli occupation army has targeted Kamal Adwan Hospital more than 20 times in the past ten days, injuring a number of medical staff, patients and their companions.
The human rights group warned that the occupation army is working systematically in a repetitive pattern to target the few medical staff remaining in northern Gaza, which exacerbates the difficulty of providing health services to tens of thousands of civilians who have been under siege for 69 days.
This comes while civil defense and ambulance crews have been banned from fulfilling their duties for 51 days.
Since October 7, 2023, about 1,057 Palestinian medical staff and more than 135 scientists and academics have been killed by the IOF, according to the Euro-Med.
