Israel bombed Beit Lahia’s besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza on 31 October, killing several people and causing serious damage to essential departments within the medical facility.
Palestine Today’s correspondent reported “four martyrs, including two children, in the occupation’s bombing of the third floor of Kamal Adwan Hospital.”
The attack targeted the hospital’s desalination plant in the kidney dialysis department, the engineering and maintenance departments, and water tanks.
It led to the burning of a warehouse of medicines and medical supplies in the hospital that had been received by the World Health Organization (WHO) just five days ago.
The attack on the hospitals came just days after Israel’s deliberate bombing of the oxygen station in the hospital, which led to the death of several patients, among them children. It also came the week after Israeli troops stormed the hospital and abducted dozens of patients and medical staff.
Surgical operations have been completely suspended due to the ongoing aggression on the hospital. Hospital Director Dr Hussam Abu Safia has called on anyone with surgical expertise to head to the hospital, as there are dozens of injured patients in critical condition.
Kamal Adwan Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital, which is also besieged, are the last two functioning hospitals in northern Gaza.
The recent cessation of Civil Defense operations, which comes as a result of the month-long Israeli siege on the north, has made transferring casualties from non-stop Israeli attacks impossible.
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