DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of many final hospitals working in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many employees and sufferers outdoors to strip in winter climate, the territory’s well being ministry mentioned. The military denied claims it had entered or set hearth to the advanced and accused Hamas of utilizing the ability for canopy.
Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit a number of occasions over the previous three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive towards Hamas fighters in surrounding neighborhoods, in keeping with employees. The ministry mentioned a strike on the hospital a day earlier killed 5 medical employees.
Israel’s navy mentioned it was conducting operations towards Hamas infrastructure and militants within the space and had ordered individuals out of the hospital, however mentioned it had not entered the advanced as of Friday night time. It repeated claims that Hamas militants function inside Kamal Adwan however offered no proof. Hospital officers have denied that.
The Well being Ministry mentioned troops compelled medical personnel and sufferers to assemble within the yard and take away their garments. Some had been led to an unknown location, whereas some sufferers had been despatched to the close by Indonesian Hospital, which was knocked out of operation after an Israel raid this week.
Israeli troops throughout raids often perform mass detentions, stripping males to their underwear for questioning in what the navy says is a safety measure as they seek for Hamas fighters.
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The Related Press doesn’t have entry to Kamal Adwan, however armed plainclothes members of the Hamas-led police forces have been seen in different hospitals, sustaining safety but in addition controlling entry to elements of the services.
The Well being Ministry mentioned Israeli troops additionally set fires in a number of elements of Kamal Adwan, together with the lab and surgical procedure division. It mentioned 25 sufferers and 60 well being employees remained within the hospital. The account couldn’t be independently confirmed, and makes an attempt to succeed in hospital employees had been unsuccessful.
“Hearth is ablaze in all places within the hospital,” an unidentified employees member mentioned in an audio message posted on social media accounts of hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya. The staffer mentioned some evacuated sufferers had been unhooked from oxygen.
“There are presently sufferers who may die at any second,” she mentioned.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli navy spokesman, denied the accusations.
“Whereas IDF troops weren’t within the hospital, a small hearth broke out in an empty constructing contained in the hospital that’s underneath management,” he mentioned Friday night time. He mentioned a preliminary investigation discovered “no connection” between navy exercise and the fireplace.
The Israeli navy closely restricts the actions of Palestinians in Gaza and has barred overseas journalists from getting into the territory all through the warfare, making it tough to confirm data.
“These actions put the lives of all of those individuals in much more hazard than what they confronted earlier than,” U.N. spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay instructed journalists, and famous colleagues’ studies of “important harm” to the hospital. It must be protected as worldwide regulation requires, she added.
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this final main well being facility in North #Gaza out of service. Preliminary studies point out that some key departments had been severely burnt and destroyed through the raid.
60 well being employees and 25 sufferers in crucial situation,… pic.twitter.com/bD5eJgnVkR
— World Well being Group (WHO) (@WHO) December 27, 2024
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This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this final main well being facility in North #Gaza out of service. Preliminary studies point out that some key departments had been severely burnt and destroyed through the raid.
60 well being employees and 25 sufferers in crucial situation,… pic.twitter.com/bD5eJgnVkR
— World Well being Group (WHO) (@WHO) December 27, 2024
A largely remoted north
Since October, Israel’s offensive has nearly sealed off the northern Gaza areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and leveled massive elements of them. Tens of hundreds of Palestinians had been compelled out however hundreds are believed to stay within the space, the place Kamal Adwan and two different hospitals are positioned. Troops raided Kamal Adwan in October, and on Tuesday troops stormed and evacuated the Indonesian Hospital.
The realm has been lower off from meals and different support for months , elevating fears of famine. The United Nations says Israeli troops allowed simply 4 humanitarian deliveries to the realm from Dec. 1 to Dec. 23.
The Israeli rights group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel this week petitioned Israel’s Excessive Courtroom of Justice, searching for a halt to navy assaults on Kamal Adwan. It warned that forcibly evacuating the hospital would “abandon hundreds of residents in northern Gaza.” Earlier than the most recent deaths Thursday, the group documented 5 different staffers killed by Israeli hearth since October.
Israel launched its marketing campaign in Gaza vowing to destroy Hamas after the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel through which militants killed round 1,200 individuals and kidnapped some 250 others. Round 100 Israelis stay captive in Gaza, round a 3rd believed to be useless.
Israel’s almost 15-month-old marketing campaign of bombardment and offensives has devastated the territory’s well being sector. A 12 months in the past, it carried out raids on hospitals in northern Gaza, together with Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and al-Awda Hospital, saying they served as bases for Hamas, although it introduced little proof.
Israel’s marketing campaign has killed greater than 45,400 Palestinians, greater than half ladies and kids, and wounded greater than 108,000 others, in keeping with the Well being Ministry. Its depend doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants.
🛑 #Gaza infants are freezing to demise on account of chilly climate & lack of shelter.
In the meantime, blankets, mattresses & different winter provides have been caught within the area for months ready for approval to get into Gaza. #CeasefireNow +
A right away move of a lot wanted fundamental…
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) December 27, 2024
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🛑 #Gaza infants are freezing to demise on account of chilly climate & lack of shelter.
In the meantime, blankets, mattresses & different winter provides have been caught within the area for months ready for approval to get into Gaza. #CeasefireNow +
A right away move of a lot wanted fundamental…— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) December 27, 2024
Deaths from the chilly in Gaza
Greater than 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have been pushed from their properties, most now sheltering in sprawling tent camps in south and central Gaza.
Youngsters and adults, many barefoot, huddled Friday on the chilly sand in tents whose plastic and fabric sheets whipped within the wind. In a single day temperatures can dip into the 40s Fahrenheit (under 10 Celsius), and sea spray from the Mediterranean can dampen tents simply steps away.
“I swear to God, their mom and I cowl ourselves with one blanket and we cowl (their 5 kids) with three blankets that we received from neighbors. Sea waters drowned every little thing that was ours,” mentioned Muhammad al-Sous, displaced from Beit Lahiya within the north.
The kids accumulate plastic bottles to make fires, and pile underneath the blankets when their solely set of garments is washed and dried within the wind.
At the least three infants in Gaza have died from publicity to chilly in latest days, medical doctors there have mentioned, and the Well being Ministry mentioned an grownup — a nurse who labored on the European Hospital — additionally died this week.
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Khaled and Keath reported from Cairo. Related Press author Edith M. Lederer on the United Narions contributed to this report.