Israel forces Indonesian medical team out of Kamal Adwan Hospital

At least 30 Palestinians were killed this morning in an Israeli bombing of several houses in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

Local sources told the news site’s correspondent that Israeli occupation forces targeted the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, affecting the nearby houses.

The sources added that occupation forces sent two detained citizens, using them as human shields, to the hospital to inform the medical staff as well as the patients to gather in the hospital’s courtyards before asking them to leave after detaining some of them. The civilians were forced to flee towards Gaza City.

According to the sources, occupation forces withdrew from the area in the morning, leaving behind a massacre that claimed the lives of at least 30 Palestinians in the houses adjacent to the hospital.

Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, said that the situation inside and around the hospital is catastrophic, as there are a large number of people killed and wounded, including four medical staff who were killed, noting that no surgeons are left in the hospital.

Abu Safiya confirmed in a press statement that the only medical team that was performing the operations was the Indonesian medical delegation, and they were forced to leave to a checkpoint, adding that medical supplies are about to run out, and there are hundreds of victims.

He pointed out that the Indonesian medical delegation was the first to be forced to move towards the checkpoint.

Abu Safiya explained that when they returned to hospital in the morning after being forced to evacuate it, they were shocked to see hundreds of bodies and wounded in the streets surrounding the hospital.

He added that oxygen generators were targeted at night, and now there are only two inexperienced surgeons available to operate on patients. They had to start operations despite their lack of experience, as there were 20 wounded in need for urgent care, he said.

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