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Israeli occupation forces launched intense attacks on Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip, targeting areas near displacement centers that shelter hundreds of Palestinian families, resulting in multiple civilian casualties.
Local sources confirmed that Palestinian families are besieged by Israeli occupation forces in Beit Hanoun, and Civil Defense teams are unable to reach or rescue them.
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The hospital bears the name of one of the leaders of the Palestinian revolution and the most prominent symbols of the Fatah movement
– Since the start of the military operation in northern Gaza on 5 October, the hospital was subjected to dozens of attacks
– The hospital director said the Israeli army treats this health facility as a “military target”
In the heart of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army is committing crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the Kamal Adwan Hospital continues to operate with minimal of capabilities as the last stronghold of steadfastness in the face of the Israeli war machine.
The hospital bears the name of one of the leaders of the Palestinian revolution and the most prominent symbols of the Fatah movement, and constitutes a last resort for patients and the wounded in the north who have not found an alternative that provides them with the minimum of medical and humanitarian services.
Since the Israeli army’s attack on the northern governorate on 5 October, which coincided with a comprehensive military siege, the hospital has been subjected to dozens of targeting operations with missiles and gunfire, as a health official said the Israeli army treats it as a “military target”.
Despite this, the hospital’s medical staff, consisting of two doctors at most and a small number of nurses, continued to perform their humanitarian duty, and refused to obey the army’s multiple orders to evacuate its buildings and leave the governorate despite the ongoing crimes against them.
Beit Lahia, like many other parts of the Gaza Strip, was subjected to a policy of “urban annihilation” of its architectural and cultural fabric through the implementation of comprehensive erasure operations and the complete destruction of homes, residential neighborhoods and infrastructure, and the elimination of the means of survival for Palestinians, according to a statement by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
The Kamal Adwan Hospital, the largest hospital in the Northern Governorate, which used to provide services to more than 400,000 people, is currently operating under conditions and lacking capabilities due to the Israeli targeting of it since October 2023, which Anadolu Agency monitored as follows:
Since the beginning of the war, the Israeli army continued to launch intensive raids on the hospital’s surroundings, in addition to blowing up buildings and residential areas next to it, which resulted in much damage in addition to deaths and injuries inside and outside the hospital.
– 14 October: An Israeli warning to evacuate the hospital of displaced persons, medical staff and patients.
– 4 December: An Israeli bombardment of the northern gate of the hospital results in the killing of 4 Palestinians
– 6 December: The Gaza Ministry of Health announces the forcible removal of Kamal Adwan Hospital from service and “with tank muzzles”.
– 8 December: Israeli tanks besiege the hospital, and army snipers climb onto surrounding buildings and fire towards the courtyards and patients’ rooms.
– 12 December: The Israeli army stormed the hospital after a tight siege and forced about 2,500 displaced people to evacuate the hospital after two days and arrested a number of medical staff
– 16 December: The army withdrew from the hospital after destroying the southern part of it, displacing the displaced people inside it, abusing its patients and suppressing the medical staff
– Mid-January: Kamal Adwan Hospital partially resumed operations according to human rights reports
– March: Dozens of children died, some of them in Kamal Adwan Hospital due to famine in the north and a shortage of medical supplies and medicines.
– 19 May: The hospital went out of service again after heavy Israeli shelling targeted its surroundings and army vehicles advanced towards it and besieged it for days
– 28 May: Israeli shelling of a building in the hospital and the destruction of the electricity generators inside it.
– June: The hospital partially resumed operations with limited medical facilities and supplies
– 8 October: The Israeli army orders hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Kamal Adwan, to evacuate within 24 hours, amidst a siege by military vehicles
– 19 October: The Israeli army shells the entrance to the Kamal Adwan Hospital laboratory, killing a Palestinian and wounding others
– 20 October: The Israeli shelling of the hospital resumes, and heavy gunfire is directed at its buildings, targeting its water tanks and electricity network
– 22 October: Israeli warnings to evacuate the hospital are renewed
– 25 October: The Israeli army storms the hospital and detains hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced persons who have taken refuge inside its buildings
– 26 October: The army withdraws from the hospital, leaving behind Palestinian deaths and widespread destruction inside and outside, a day after storming it
– 31 October: The Israeli army shells the hospital, burning medicines and medical supplies it received from the World Health Organization days earlier
– 3 November: Israeli artillery shelling injures a number of children in the hospital’s nursery and shooting at its generators and water tanks
– 4 November: Israeli shelling of the hospital’s facilities and the injury of a number of Palestinian medical staff and patients
– 6 November: The death of wounded due to the lack of surgical specialties in the hospital, which began operating without electricity due to a lack of fuel
– 11 November: An Israeli drone shelled the hospital’s reception and emergency department, injuring 3 medical staff
– 22 November: Renewed Israeli shelling of Kamal Adwan Hospital, injuring a doctor and patients, and disrupting the electricity generators and the oxygen station
– 3 December: Israeli shelling of the hospital with bombs launched by “Quadcopter” drones, injuring 3 medical staff
– 4 December: The army shelled the hospital four times and the oxygen station stopped, threatening the lives of patients inside it
– 5 December: The Israeli army targeted the hospital several times, killing two Palestinians, one of whom was a child, and injuring two others
– 6 December: The Israeli army stormed the hospital for hours and forced Patients and medical staff evacuated and a number of them were arrested
– 7 December: The Israeli army targeted the hospital with a number of shells, resulting in the injury of medical staff and patients, the destruction of water, oxygen and fuel tanks, a power outage and the outbreak of fires in its facilities
– 14 December: Explosive robots were detonated in the vicinity of the hospital, damaging its buildings and causing panic among patients and displaced persons
– 16 December 16: Israeli Quadcopter drones targeted the hospital
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced, Wednesday, the death toll in the Strip has risen to 45,097, most of them children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on 7 October, 2023.
The ministry added in a press statement received “the death toll has risen to 107,244 wounded since the start of the aggression, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.”
It pointed out that the occupation forces committed three massacres in the past 24 hours, resulting in the martyrdom of 38 Palestinians and the injury of 203 others.
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Footage aired by Al Jazeera showed stray dogs scavenging the bodies of lifeless Palestinians in northern Gaza, with Israeli soldiers present in the vicinity.
The distressing scenes prompted widespread outrage, with Palestinian resistance group Hamas condemning the incidents as emblematic of the “cruelty, sadism, and inhumanity” of the Israeli military and its leadership.
In a statement released, Tuesday, Hamas described the video as further evidence of a “systematic extermination” campaign in Gaza, where humanitarian teams have been denied access to retrieve bodies and assist victims. The video depicted stray dogs mauling bodies in areas where rescue efforts have been obstructed.
The group also accused the Israeli army of deliberately attacking civilians and targeting vital infrastructure, citing ongoing strikes on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia town. These strikes have damaged water tanks, fuel supplies, and oxygen facilities essential to medical care.
Hamas labeled the Israeli acts as “war crimes committed openly before the world” and called for urgent international intervention to halt genocidal actions in Gaza.
The group urged the international community to mobilize humanitarian aid and ensure the protection of civilians, emphasizing the need for accountability for war crimes committed during Israel’s ongoing genocide according to Anadolu.
Since 5 October, Israel launched a large-scale ground operation in northern Gaza to allegedly prevent Hamas from regrouping. Palestinians, however, accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.
Since then, no sufficient humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, and fuel, was allowed into the area, leaving the remaining population there on the verge of imminent famine.
The onslaught was the latest episode in a brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 45,000 people, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023.
Last month, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on Gaza.
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Israeli journalist and former reserve soldier who served in Gaza, Chaim Har-Zahav, revealed that army commanders instruct forces to open fire on any Palestinian regardless of whether or not they pose a threat.
His comments are trending on the social media with comments and imagery and were made and published in a Haaretz article.
He made his comments after serving 86 days in the Gaza Strip and his article was published in full in the Middle East Eye website.
“The lives of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip depend first and foremost on the private and personal scale of values of the commanders in the Strip,” Har-Zahav wrote, adding that any senior officer who orders the killing of Palestinians simply because of their identity will not face consequences.
“A human life in the Gaza Strip is worth less than the lives of the thousands of stray dogs that roam the area looking for food. While there is a clear order prohibiting shooting dogs unless a soldier is in real danger when the dog’s jaws are locked on him, humans are permitted to be shot without any real restrictions.”
In the piece, Har-Zahav relayed an incident that involved a senior commander ordering the shooting of an unarmed man waving a white flag. Though the general was told the man did not pose a threat and was clearly without weapons, he responded by saying: “I don’t know what a white flag is, shoot him it’s an order.”
