GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center)Israeli tanks stormed, amid intensive gunfire, the courtyards of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of Gaza, early Thursday, burning tents used as outpatient clinics and injuring several medical employees and volunteers.
“Israeli tanks targeted, for the second time, the hospital’s specialized surgery department at exactly 2:00 a.m. on Thursday,” Rafat al-Majdalawi, director general of the Al-Awda Health and Community Society, said in a statement today.
Majdalawi added that the tanks opened fire at the hospital’s buildings, damaging its infrastructure and its water and fuel tanks.
He appealed to the World Health Organization and the Red Cross to provide immediate protection for the Hospital’s staff, volunteers, and the patients currently receiving medical care at its departments.
