WHO: ‘No warning before Israel bombed Kamal Adwan Hospital’

Dr Rik Peeperkorn, spokesperson for the World Health Organisation (WHO), confirmed: “There was no official warning or evacuation order before the bombing of the hospital, only rumours that spread panic.”

Dr Peeperkorn added during a press briefing in Geneva that the hospital is “minimally functional”, indicating that about 12,000 patients across Gaza need medical evacuation, but only 78 have been evacuated so far.

Hossam Abu Safieh, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, shared that the situation inside and around the hospital is catastrophic. There are a large number of martyrs and wounded, including four martyrs from the hospital’s medical staff.

Abu Safieh added in press statements: “No surgeons are left. The only medical team that was performing operations was the Indonesian medical delegation, and they were the first to be forced to leave toward a checkpoint. Medical supplies are running out, and there are hundreds of victims.”

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“The oxygen generators were targeted at night, and now there are only two inexperienced surgeons available to operate on patients,” stating that they were forced to start operations despite their lack of experience as 20 wounded individuals needed urgent care.

The Israeli occupation army, supported by the US and Europe, continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip for the second year, as its aircraft bombs hospitals, buildings, towers and homes of Palestinian civilians and destroy them over the heads of their residents. The occupation also prevents the entry of water, food, medicine and fuel.

The aggression left more than 150,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them women and children, and more than 10,000 are believed to be missing amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and elderly in one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.

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