As a part of Israeli attack ‘targeting’ medical establishment in Northern Gaza, the Israeli military sieged Kamal Adwan Hospital and fired indiscriminately targeting medics of the hospital, reports Al Jazeera.
During this shot out, at least three members of the medical staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have sustained injuries, ranging from mild to moderate, according to the head of nursing, Palestinian media reports.
Reports of injuries follow after Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli soldiers opened fire inside the hospital, which has been placed under an Israeli military siege for weeks.
Medical workers remains inside the hospital with sick and injured patients, the hospital’s head of nursing said, while evacuation orders by the Israeli military had forced some of their companions, as well as displaced women and children sheltering at the facility, to leave.
However, the World Health Organization said on Friday that it has lost all of its communication with WHO teams working in the area of Kamal Adwan hospital in besieged northern Gaza.
Civil defence teams say they have stopped rescue operations due to the threat of Israeli attacks, leaving people sheltering in place with no help as Israel’s assault continues.
However, at least 600 patients along with their companions, and staff members, are trapped at the Hospital Beit Lahiya, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has said.
Israeli forces raided the hospital in northern Gaza on Friday and ordered patients to move down to the main courtyard, the Wafa news agency reported, as they conducted mass arrests.
At least two children have died in the intensive care unit after the hospital’s generators stopped and the oxygen station was targeted, the health ministry said in a statement.
Among those inside are 195 patients, and 70 medical staff members, the ministry said in its statement, adding that the situation there is “alarmingly deteriorating”.
The raid came a day after Israeli tanks shelled the compound of the hospital, one of the few remaining functioning medical facilities in the north of the enclave, as the Israeli siege entered its third week.
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