GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) laid siege to the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia town in northern Gaza at dawn Saturday and attacked anyone moving in its vicinity.
The Indonesian Hospital had plunged into darkness after the Israeli artillery fired two projectiles at it.
Director of the hospital Marwan al-Sultan said that Israeli tanks completely surrounded the facility, as well as four shelter centers around it, and shelled the building — targeting the second and third floors with artillery fire.
Sultan added that Israeli bulldozers started to demolish parts of the hospital and cut off electricity to it.
He said that there are serious risks to medical staff and patients at the hospital.
“15 medical staff and 30 wounded people inside the hospital are facing real dangers as a result of their exposure to direct targeting and the danger of suffocation caused by gases emitting from the projectiles exploding around the facility,” he explained, adding that the lives of the wounded citizens who need special care are threatened due to the lack of oxygen.
He appealed to the international community to intervene urgently to salvage what remained of Gaza’s health system.
In a related context, the overstretched hospitals in northern Gaza are no longer able to receive more patients and wounded citizens, according to the director of Gaza’s field hospitals.
He said on Friday that the hospitals in northern Gaza resorted to using a priority and preference policy with the patients and wounded and had to postpone a number of caesarean sections due to insufficient bed capacity.
