GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) laid siege to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, as military vehicles and bulldozers advanced amid heavy gunfire.
Eyewitnesses said that IOF tanks encircled the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and began to fire directly at the building.
Sources reported that there were 55 people inside the hospital, including four doctors and eight nurses, in addition to dozens of patients who were unable to move and could not be evacuated during the morning attack. “Communication with medical staff and the sick inside the hospital has been cut off,” the sources said.
Meanwhile, the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh, said that “Israeli tanks and bulldozers are surrounding the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.”
“A number of patients were injured due to IOF shooting directly at the hospital. We appeal to the world to intervene immediately to protect the medical staff, patients and the wounded inside the hospital,” Al-Bursh added.
Health sources at the Hospital confirmed that the IOF did not inform the hospital of any evacuation orders nor did they issue any warnings before the bombing began, affirming that “there are no military targets inside the hospital.”
The medical staff currently inside the hospital appeal to the international community and human rights organizations to intervene urgently to stop this attack and save their lives.
On Sunday morning, a health official said the occupation army surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, with drones amid direct shooting in the area.
The hospital director, Marwan al-Sultan, said in a statement that Israeli drones fired at the hospital’s intensive care unit, affirming that one patient was injured after shots were fired in the hospital vicinity.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said the occupation army has been intensifying its targeting and siege of the Indonesian Hospital since dawn Sunday, days after the European Gaza Hospital was put out of service.
