Health authorities in the Gaza Strip say this Saturday, December 28, that the director of a key hospital in the north of the Palestinian territory was taken by the IDF for questioning the day after an IDF military operation targeting the establishment.
The Ministry of Health of the Hamas government in Gaza and the local Civil Defense denounced this Saturday, December 28, the detention by Israel of the director of a key hospital in the north of the Palestinian territory. “The occupying forces [israéliennes] took dozens of medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital, including Dr. Hossam Abou Safiya, to a detention center for interrogation,” the ministry said in a statement.
“By arresting the director of the Kamal Adwan hospital, dozens of medical and technical staff, as well as the director of Civil Defense in the north, the occupation has completely destroyed the medical, humanitarian and relief framework in northern Gaza,” castigated the spokesperson for Civil Defense, Mahmoud Bassal. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately comment.
The day before, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that Kamal Adwan, until then the last major operational hospital in northern Gaza, was «hors service» after an Israeli raid against Hamas fighters near this establishment.
On Friday, the Israeli army announced that it had launched an operation against Hamas fighters near this hospital, which plays a crucial role in a Gaza Strip with bloodless health services after more than fourteen months of war. In a statement Friday, she described the establishment as “stronghold of terrorist organizations […] used as a hiding place by terrorists, what denies “categorically” Hamas.
