2023-12-17 13:46:13
Burying Gaza patients alive…an Israeli crime at Kamal Adwan Hospital
Last Saturday morning, Israeli occupation army vehicles withdrew from the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia project area in the northern Gaza Strip, revealing details of a horrific massacre once morest the displaced, medical staff, and patients who were inside it, and the massive extent of destruction in the hospital courtyard and some departments, and severe damage to departments. Other.
Kamal Adwan Hospital was operating on a limited basis before the Israeli incursion, due to the lack of all means of providing medical services, and the situation worsened with its three-day siege, and communication between it and the medical authorities in the southern Gaza Strip was cut off. But the hospital stopped working completely due to the damage caused by the Israeli army invasion, which before leaving killed dozens and arrested regarding 90 of the displaced and patients.
Paramedic Wafaa Al-Bas was one of the medical staff members who were trapped for three days inside the intensive care unit with a number of patients, two of whom died on Sunday morning, following living difficult days without treatment or care during a period of siege and then storming of the hospital.
At the beginning of the storm, the reception section contained many wounded children, and the occupation army asked to evacuate it along with other buildings that were exposed to fragments of flying shells. Al-Bas told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: “We lost many injured people as a result of health complications and bleeding during the siege period before the Israeli occupation soldiers stormed. We had a number of serious injuries, and the storming of the hospital prevented us from providing treatment, which caused many to lose their lives. When the occupation army withdrew in the morning On Saturday, I quickly went to the hospital pharmacy to get an injection for one of the injured people, and I found the pharmacy completely burned, and we lost all the medicines in it.”
She added: “The occupation arrested the director of the hospital, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, the deputy director of nursing, Imad Hamdouna, and many members of the medical staff. The medical teams were unable to count the numbers of martyrs who died during the massacre, and I estimate that their numbers are in the dozens, and some of them are still under the rubble and rubble, and it has appeared.” Parts of their bodies or their blood in the hospital courtyard, and a number of sick and wounded are still in the hospital without any treatment, and I expect that the number of martyrs will increase as a result of this. There were cases of amputation among the injured, and others had wounds that required urgent intervention, and most of these were martyred due to not receiving treatment. Treatment, there are bodies that have completely decomposed, and we do not know where we can bury them.”
Al-Bas explained: “They interrogated us for long periods, and repeatedly asked regarding their hostages. They separated us separately, and asked regarding the names of those in the hospital, and if there were tunnels. They did not find anything, but they unleashed police dogs on us, and we were screaming because the dogs were terrifying, and they were not allowed to… Over the course of three days, we saved the lives of the sick and wounded, even though some of them needed urgent intervention and might have been saved. When they took the men out to the square, they asked them to take out their weapons, but they found nothing, as everyone was civilian.
Ahmed Hamdan (35 years old) was among those displaced to Kamal Adwan Hospital. He decided to stay with his brother, Wajdi (40 years old), and his friend Morsi because they were injured. He says that his brother’s friend was one of those executed by the occupation forces when the bulldozers and military vehicles passed over the tents of the displaced people, and he recognized him. From his face that appeared under the sand and mud created by the bulldozers.
Hamdan adds to Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed: “What they did was disastrous, and what our ancestors experienced in the Sabra and Shatila massacres, or the Nakba massacres, we experienced in Kamal Adwan Hospital. They executed the men, killed the children, and walked over the heads of the patients. We went out to the square raising our hands, and nothing They can’t find anything with us, we are displaced, we have nothing, and most of us might not move to the south, because we have sick relatives in the hospital.”
Witnesses narrated that they saw body parts under the rubble left by the military vehicles of the Israeli army, including the arm of one of the wounded covered in a splint, and among them were wounded, as the wounded would go out to the square to stay in tents to make room for new patients due to the lack of available beds. Hamdan says: “The martyr with the amputated hand had received treatment without anesthesia, and was screaming in intense pain, but the occupation killed him by trampling him alive, then bulldozed his body.”
The bulldozers destroyed the front gate and destroyed the hospital’s southern buildings, including the pharmacy, in order to bring in military vehicles. They also bulldozed the hospital’s front yard, which was filled with tents for the displaced, to establish an investigation point. The elderly woman, Umm Talal Assaf (60 years old), told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed: “I witnessed with my own eyes the occupation soldiers stealing a number of bodies. Because I am disabled, they kept me in my place, but they prevented me from providing me with food and water, and forced me to watch their torture of the sick and their bulldozing of the bodies. They arrested many.” Among them is my nephew Muhammad, and many of my family members are missing, and people are searching for their relatives among the rubble.”
After preliminary investigations, collecting testimonies, and evaluating the medical condition, the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Alkaila, called, on Saturday evening, for an international investigation into what happened at Kamal Adwan Hospital, confirming that there is evidence that the occupation army buried alive citizens, some of whom were displaced, and others who were sick, and that the ministry It will prepare a comprehensive file to be submitted to international courts.
Al-Kaila said in a press statement: “The information and testimonies we collected from citizens and medical and media teams confirm that citizens were buried alive in the hospital courtyard, and that some of the martyrs were interrogated before they were killed, in addition to the great destruction caused by the occupation in the hospital buildings.”
In turn, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded, on Saturday, in a statement, “an immediate international investigation into the reports that the occupation committed heinous and horrific crimes in the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital.”
The Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, said, “The Israeli occupation committed a humanitarian catastrophe, turned Kamal Adwan Hospital into a military barracks, and deliberately humiliated the medical personnel and the wounded.” Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said, “Israeli bulldozers buried alive dozens of displaced, sick and wounded people inside and around the hospital.”
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed his concern regarding the attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital several days following its siege, and said that the facility must be protected, and added: “The World Health Organization urgently calls for an immediate ceasefire and the provision of humanitarian aid access.” Sustainably to health facilities throughout the Gaza Strip.
Kamal Adwan Hospital was established in 2002, due to the need in the northern Gaza Strip for a specialized hospital to care for injuries resulting from the outbreak of the second intifada. It was initially a private clinic in the Beit Lahia project area, then it was developed and new buildings were added to it, to become an integrated medical complex. According to the latest official statistics, the hospital included 334 members of the medical staff, including doctors, pharmacists, nurses, technicians and administrators, and it covered the town and camp of Jabalia, the town of Beit Lahia, the Beit Lahia project area, and the town of Beit Hanoun, all of which are densely populated areas.
In 2014, the Indonesian Mercy Foundation equipped the Indonesian hospital building with housing for patients and major operating rooms, and it began to cover the needs of many residents of the northern Gaza Strip, but the Kamal Adwan Medical Complex continued to provide its services to the residents of the region, and the pressure on it increased during the Israeli aggression, despite the capabilities The limited availability and old equipment in it, and it has become the most important in the region following the occupation repeatedly targeted and stormed the Indonesian Hospital, which stopped providing medical services on November 16 last year, so that medical teams transferred the serious cases and those injured inside it to Kamal Adwan Hospital, as it was Al-Shifa Medical Complex is also out of service following the occupation forces stormed it.
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