Israeli attacks in and around a hospital in northern Gaza wounded three medical staff overnight into Friday and caused damage🎶 to the isolated medical facility, according to its director.
Dr Ho🐼ssam Abu Safiya said Israeli quadcopter drones carrying explosives deliberately targeted the emergency and reception area of Kamal Adwan Hospital, where one doctor was wounded for a third time.
Abu Safiya said “relentless” drone and artillery strikes throughout the night exploded “alarmingly close” to the hospital, heavily damaging nearby buildings and destroying most of the water tanks on the hospital's roof and blowing out doors and wiꦺndows.
Kamal Adwan Hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya has been🦋 hit multiple times over the past two months since Israel launched💯 a fierce military operation against Hamas in northern Gaza.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond💙 to a request for comment on the strikes.
“We demand international protection for the hospital and its staff,” Abu Safiya said in a statement released via the UK-based aid group Medical Aid for Palestinians, “as well as the entry of delegations with surgical expertise, medical supplies, and essential medic🗹ations to ensure we can adequately serve the people we are treating”.
Abu Safiya sa🃏id there were 72 wounded patients at the hospital, one of the few medical facilities left iဣn northern Gaza. He said he expected Israeli forces would allow a World Health Organisation aid convoy to bring supplies to the hospital on Friday or Saturday, as well as a team of doctors from Indonesia.
Israel has allowed almost no humanitarian or medical aid to enter the three besieged communities in northern Gaza - Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and the urban Jabaliya refugee camp - and ordered te💟ns of thousands to flee to nearby Ga💮za City.
Israeli officials have said the three communities are mostly deserted, but the United Nations humanitarian office said Tuesday it believes around 65,000 to 75,000 people are still there, with little access to food, water, electricit🍸y or health care. Experts have war𝕴ned that the north may be experiencing famine.
