Israel targets Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, again

At least 30 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli occupation military’s strikes across the Gaza Strip today, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching medical supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave’s health officials said, according to Reuters.

Northern Gaza is currently the main focus of Israel’s assault in the enclave. Earlier this month it sent tanks into Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia.

Eid Sabbah, director of nursing at Kamal Adwan – which is in Beit Lahia – said some staff had suffered minor burns after the Israeli strike hit the third floor of the hospital.

There were no reports of any casualties at the hospital, which Israeli forces stormed and occupied last week, detaining all medical staff except the hospital director, three nurses and a paediatrician.

The Ministry of Health called for all international bodies “to protect hospitals and medical staff from the brutality of the occupation”.

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today that one of its doctors at the hospital, Mohammed Obeid, had been detained last Saturday by Israeli forces. It called for his protection and all medical staff who “are facing horrific violence as they try to provide care”.

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