MADRID Dec. 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned this Saturday that the Kamal Aduan hospital, the last operation in the northern Gaza Strip, has been out of service after Friday’s assault, putting the lives of 75,000 at risk. Palestinians who remain in the area.
“In an assault on Friday, apparently by Israeli forces, some areas of the hospital, such as the laboratory, surgical unit and medical warehouse, were burned and severely damaged,” the WHO explained in a statement.
The United Nations organization has denounced in the same letter that “several people were stripped naked and forced to walk towards the south of Gaza” and that some patients who were in critical condition “were forced to move to the Indonesian hospital”, also inoperative. and lacking the equipment and supplies necessary to provide adequate care.
Thus, the organization has expressed its concern about the “serious risks” that this situation poses for the survival of sick or injured people and has announced that it is planning for this Sunday “an urgent mission to the Indonesian hospital in order to transfer them safely to southern Gaza and continue to receive care.
Likewise, he has demanded “that it be urgently guaranteed that the hospitals in northern Gaza can function again”, regretting that the current level of destruction evokes the situation in which the health system in Gaza City found itself at the beginning of this year. .
“Since October 2023, the WHO has made repeated urgent calls to protect health workers and hospitals in accordance with international humanitarian law, but these calls remain unheeded,” the WHO denounced, underlining that “hospitals have been turned into battlefields again.
The Israeli Army entered the Kamal Aduan hospital this Friday – after evacuating patients and staff – following preliminary information “about the presence of terrorists, terrorist infrastructure and terrorist activity there.”
However, Gaza health authorities accused Israel of forcibly entering the medical center and expelling 350 people, including patients and medical staff, while cutting off the hospital’s communication with the outside world, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health. Health of Gaza, under Hamas control.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denied in a statement published by the newspaper ‘Filastin’, related to the group, that there is a military presence in the hospital, either from its armed wing, the Ezzeldin al Qassam Brigades, or of any other Palestinian faction.
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