Israeli Strike on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza: Update on Deaths and Humanitarian Crisis

2023-12-04 11:30:16

Palestinian agency WAFA announces several deaths following strike on hospital in northern Gaza

During the night from Sunday to Monday, a strike on an entrance to the Kamal Adwan hospital, located in the north of Gaza, left several dead according to the Palestinian agency WAFA, with the Hamas government accusing the Israeli army in a statement. of a « grave violation » of international humanitarian law.

Contacted by Agence France-Presse to find out if it had bombed the perimeter of this hospital, the Israeli army did not respond immediately. Israel accuses Hamas of installing infrastructure in or under hospitals and using civilians as human shields.

The Hamas-administered Gaza Health Ministry said Sunday that 15,523 people, 70% of them women and children, have been killed since the start of Israeli bombardments on the Palestinian enclave.

“During the past hours, only 316 dead and 664 injured were able to be taken out of the rubble and brought to hospitals, but many others are still under the rubble”specified the spokesperson for the Hamas health ministry, Ashraf Al-Qidreh.

Hospitals in the south of the Gaza Strip are overwhelmed by the influx of wounded while fuel reserves to run the generators are almost dry.

“Words fail me to describe the horrors that strike the children here”, James Elder said in a video on Sundaya Unicef ​​spokesperson present at Nasser hospital. “I see children arriving en masse among the victims”he had declared earlier on X.

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