Dozens of sufferers and about 3,000 displaced individuals are inside, UN says, as Gaza Well being Ministry requires worldwide assist.
Israeli forces have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, after besieging and shelling it for a number of days, sources and the Palestinian Ministry of Well being stated.
Ashraf al-Qudra, a ministry spokesman, stated Israeli troops have been rounding up males and boys within the courtyard of the hospital in Beit Lahiya, together with medical workers, on Tuesday.
“We concern their arrest and the arrest of the medical groups or their killing,” he stated, calling for worldwide intervention.
“We name on the United Nations, the World Well being Group and the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross to behave instantly to save lots of the lives of these within the hospital.”
Inside, there are sufferers, medical workers and hundreds of civilians who’ve taken refuge after being pressured to flee their properties.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from southern Gaza on Tuesday, stated the raid was happening “underneath heavy gunfire and artillery shelling”.
“Tanks pushed deeper on the gates and the whole facility is underneath heavy bombardment,” he stated. “Loudspeakers are getting used to name anybody aged above 15 to return out of the constructing with their palms within the air.”
He added that Israeli forces who raided the ability additionally requested safety guards defending the hospital handy over their weapons.
Kamal Adwan is the one remaining well being facility throughout the northern a part of Gaza, our correspondent stated. “Over the previous few days, it got here underneath heavy bombardment and air strikes and tank shelling destroying the overwhelming majority of its amenities, and all the key roads resulting in it.”
Hospital ‘surrounded’
The United Nations humanitarian company OCHA stated two moms have been killed when the maternity division of Kamal Adwan was hit on Monday.
“The hospital stays surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks,” OCHA stated, including that the hospital was at present accommodating 65 sufferers, together with 12 kids within the intensive care unit and 6 newborns in incubators.
“About 3,000 internally displaced individuals stay trapped within the facility and are awaiting evacuation with excessive shortages of water, meals and energy reported,” it added.
The state of affairs in Kamal Adwan is catastrophic, Leo Cans, Docs With out Borders (MSF) head of mission for Palestine, informed Al Jazeera.
“We’re outraged by what’s happening,” he stated, including that medics in Gaza have been working in situations akin to World Warfare I.
“We’re working on the ground. Kids are arriving with very unhealthy accidents, and [surgeons] need to do a number of operations however there aren’t any extra beds,” he stated.
Israeli troops have beforehand raided and evacuated different medical amenities in Gaza, together with the Indonesian Hospital and al-Shifa, the territory’s largest hospital.
The World Well being Group (WHO) says solely 11 out of 36 of Gaza’s hospitals stay partially useful and pleaded for them to stay intact.
“We can’t afford to lose any healthcare amenities or hospitals,” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO consultant for the occupied Palestinian territories, informed a UN press briefing by videolink from Gaza. “We hope, we plea that this is not going to occur.”
Greater than 18,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel started its warfare on Gaza on October 7.