'Next to impossible' to rescue patients from Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital: Director
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital says it’s “next to impossible” to rescue civilians and patients since Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of the hospital.
Kamal Adwan, one of the last hospitals still barely functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, is currently home to nearly 400 civilians, "including babies in the neonatal unit, whose lives depend on oxygen and incubators,” according to the head of the hospital Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya.
“We cannot evacuate these patients safely without assistance, equipment, and time,” he told Reuters via text message.
"We are sending this message under heavy bombardment and direct targeting of the fuel tanks, which if hit will cause a large explosion and mass casualties of the civilians inside.”
Abu Safiya said Israel’s military had ordered patients and staff to be evacuated to another hospital where conditions are even worse.
Meanwhile, reports said electricity was completely cut off at the hospital after the facility came under a drone attack on Sunday. The attack hit the facility’s power generators and fuel tanks.
The power outage has also cut off communication between medical staff at the facility, deteriorating the already “dire” situation, according to health officials.
Safiya said in a video statement on Saturday night, “The nursery, maternity, and all departments of the hospital are being targeted by the occupation forces with all types of weapons, including sniper fire, tank shells, and quadcopters."
“For more than an hour now, shells are raining down on us from every corner, mile, and direction.”
Safiya made an urgent appeal to the international community to protect the hospital and its remaining patients as well as medical staff.
“For more than an hour now, shells are raining down on us from every corner, mile, and direction.”
The regime’s forces have attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital more than 20 times in the past two weeks, according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which said “several patients, medical personnel, and their companions” have been injured.
They said the military is “routinely” targeting medical teams in the north of Gaza “to destroy the health system and impose intolerable living conditions on civilians while denying them access to life-saving care.”
Observers say what the Israeli regime is currently doing before the eyes of the world on the northern edge of the coastal strip is land grabs under the threat of extermination.
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