GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, has affirmed that the hospital is still under tight siege by the Israeli occupation army, which does not allow anything to enter the facility, including medicines, food, ambulances and even medical delegations.
“Despite our appeals to the world, the same scene is repeated. Yesterday, I received a plea for help from the Kahlout family after their house was targeted, but unfortunately we cannot do anything. Sadly, those who came by themselves survived and those who remained became martyrs,” Abu Safiya said in press remarks on Wednesday.
Abu Safiya pointed out that there are 85 wounded people, including children and women, in the hospital, receiving minimal health care, while there are six patients with critical conditions in intensive care.
“Cases of malnutrition have started to arrive, and since yesterday, 17 children have come to the emergency room with signs of malnutrition,” Abu Safiya said, adding that an elderly man died from severe dehydration.
“The situation has become more catastrophic. Unfortunately, there is no action or even pledges from any international party to open a humanitarian corridor through which medical supplies, surgical and medical delegations, baby food, infant formula and therapeutic milk are allowed in so that we can treat cases of malnutrition,” he said.
