Israel war on hospitals: Kamal Adwan bombed as Hamas condemns 'death sentence’ for patients
The Israeli military has laid a siege on the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, bombarding the facility and its vicinity and preventing critically injured patients from being transported out of the hospital.
The military imposed the siege on Kamal Adwan Hospital in the city of Beit Lahia using drones on Monday, besides conducting dozens of airstrikes on the facility’s surrounding buildings and hitting its gates and offices with smoke bombs.
The forces also cut off the only road used by ambulances to transport the wounded from the facility to Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor denounced the aggression as a “dangerous development.”
According to Gaza’s health ministry, the regime has demanded that the facility be evacuated of patients, medical staff, and displaced people within 24 hours, threatening to forcibly evacuate it once its fuel resources run out.
The regime has also issued similar orders against the Indonesian and al-Awda Hospitals in Beit Lahia.
‘Death sentence for 1000s of patients’
The Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas released a statement, denouncing the orders as “blatant violations of international laws and a criminal attempt to implement the displacement plans pursued by the fascist occupation government.”
The regime’s aggression against the facilities “amounts to a death sentence for the thousands of patients and wounded within them, including women, the elderly, and children,” it added.
“This necessitates immediate action by the United Nations and all international institutions to stop this crime,” the movement said.
The aggression comes as part of the regime’s one-year-long war on Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of close to 42,000 people and wounded at least 97,590 others. Women and children comprise the majority of the victims.
Concluding its statement, however, Hamas asserted that the atrocities “will not succeed in breaking the will of our patient and steadfast people or its valiant resistance.”
“Our people have remained steadfast in the face of successive waves of the occupation army’s terrorist operations, without wavering in their firm stance and abandoning their legitimate rights to freedom and self-determination.”
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