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Israel Sets Kamal Adwan Hospital on Fire

CrossFireArabia
December 27, 2024

Israeli forces set fire on Friday to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, which is the largest hospital in the area and serves over 400,000 citizens, according to local reports.

Witnesses confirmed that the Israeli military forcibly evacuated patients, the injured, medical staff, and journalists from the hospital. The hospital is the only operational medical facility in northern Gaza that provided critical medical services to the community before being set ablaze.

Heavy smoke billows from the Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surroundings after Israeli forces forcibly evacuated patients, injured individuals, medical staff, and accompanying persons, setting the facility on fire. pic.twitter.com/FokXADCmTK
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 27, 2024

The fire destroyed key departments, including operating rooms, the laboratory, the emergency unit and the ambulance services according to the WAFA news agency.

Communication with those inside the hospital was completely cut off after Israeli forces surrounded the building.

Reports indicate that the army ordered the approximately 350 people inside, including 170 medical staff, to gather in the courtyard in preparation for a military raid. The fate of those individuals remains unknown.

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Exterminating a hospital

CrossFireArabia
December 22, 2024

Al-Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif describes the situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital by saying it is being exterminated now as Israeli occupation forces are intensifying their attacks on the hospital, targeting its buildings directly without a prior warning.

BREAKING | Israeli military forces are surrounding the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza using robots close to the hospital after ordering patients and medical staff to evacuate. pic.twitter.com/vg6S2XjABh
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 21, 2024

Footage from inside Kamal Adwan Hospital shows the ICU and neonatal ward and patients sheltering in the corridors after the Israeli occupation army ordered the hospital, the only functioning hospital in northern Gaza, to evacuate immediately under the threat of bombing.

Shrapnel from explosions spread across the departments of Kamal Adwan Hospital after the Israeli occupation detonated the booby-trapped "robot" near the hospital, according to a local journalist. pic.twitter.com/C41PmNy3H9
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 21, 2024

The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is under dire circumstances as it’s under constant Israeli bombardment following the occupation order to evacuate the hospital under the threat of bombing, where patients and medical staff are taking shelter in the corridors.

Shrapnel from explosions spread across the departments of Kamal Adwan Hospital after the Israeli occupation detonated the booby-trapped “robot” near the hospital, according to a local journalist.

Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, shared the last message before contact was lost with the media staff at the hospital after the Israeli military occupation demanded the immediate evacuation of the hospital under threat of bombing. pic.twitter.com/LDTwEW638c
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 21, 2024

Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, shared the last message before contact was lost with the media staff at the hospital after the Israeli military occupation demanded the immediate evacuation of the hospital under threat of bombing.

Footage from inside Kamal Adwan Hospital shows the ICU and neonatal ward and patients sheltering in the corridors after the Israeli occupation army ordered the hospital, the only functioning hospital in northern Gaza, to evacuate immediately under the threat of bombing. pic.twitter.com/HnEg0Bs7r9
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 22, 2024

Relentless Israeli airstrikes caused severe damage to Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip and there’s no let up with the Israel army determined to make north Gaza into a wasteland as part of their so-called ‘General’s Plan’ at displacement and changing the geography of the area.

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Israel Detains 40 Gaza Journalists

CrossFireArabia
December 18, 2024

Palestinian Journalists Protection Centre ( PJPC) stated that about 40 Palestinian journalists have been administratively detained by Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip since the beginning of their genocide in the enclave.

The centre confirmed that many other journalists are forcibly disappeared within Israeli occupation prisons, noting that the torture that Palestinian journalists suffer from is a violation of international law.

The center’s statement came shortly before the release of Al-Jazeera correspondent Mouath Al-Kahlout, who had been detained earlier, Wednesday by Israeli occupation forces at a military checkpoint in the Jabalia refugee camp, after being forced to flee from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza

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Israeli Warplanes Bomb Hospital Vicinity

CrossFireArabia
December 18, 2024

Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, confirmed that Israeli warplanes targeted the hospital and its surroundings, hitting more than eight residential buildings.

He confirmed that there are still casualties, including children, trapped under the rubble of their homes following the Israeli airstrikes carried out by the Israeli occupation forces earlier today.

He also maintained that the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only one in northern Gaza, was put out of service due to a direct strike by Israeli occupation forces earlier today.

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