Gaza - Saba:
The Zionist enemy forces arrested the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the director of the Civil Defense in northern Gaza, and three of his staff, while releasing 400 Palestinians, including medical personnel from northern Gaza, today, Saturday.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in a statement today, Saturday, that the Zionist enemy army detained the director general of Kamal Adwan Hospital and members of the hospital staff, and took them for investigation.
It said: The patients and injured who were forcibly evacuated from Kamal Adwan to the Indonesian hospital lived a harsh night in the absence of water, electricity, blankets, food, medical supplies, and even medical personnel.. Noting that the countdown to losing their lives has begun, in light of the enemy detaining most of the medical staff in the northern Gaza Strip.
It explained that the enemy army had previously destroyed the infrastructure of the Indonesian hospital before forcibly evacuating the patients to it.
The ministry appealed to all concerned institutions and parties to urgently find a solution for the patients and injured currently in the Indonesian hospital in order to preserve their lives.
In turn, the World Health Organization said: This operation led to the hospital, which is the last major health facility in the northern Gaza Strip, being out of service.
While the Civil Defense said: Ambulance crews evacuated a number of injuries to the city of Jabalia after the enemy forces forced them to evacuate Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The Zionist enemy army arrested the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, while releasing 400 citizens from northern Gaza, including medical personnel, who were arrested yesterday, Friday, from the hospital and its surroundings.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in a brief statement the arrest of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, which it stormed yesterday, Friday, burned and destroyed most of its departments before abusing the patients and medical personnel and arresting a number of them.
Meanwhile, press sources reported that the enemy army is using Hussam Abu Safiya as a human shield to search the hospital.
In the same context, Palestinian sources reported that the enemy forces released this morning 400 citizens from the northern Gaza Strip, including medical personnel, who had been arrested yesterday during the storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and its surroundings.
The enemy forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday after hours of besieging it, burned its facilities and abused those inside it, including patients, the injured and medical personnel, before arresting a number of them and forcing others to take off their clothes in the severe cold and forcibly evacuate, coinciding with gunfire and shelling from tanks around it.
The enemy forces arrested, on Friday evening, the Director of Civil Defense in northern Gaza, Ahmed Hassan Al-Kahlout, and three civil defense personnel.
The civil defense said in a statement: This comes as a continuation of the occupation's destructive approach to the humanitarian and relief work system in the northern Gaza Strip.
He added: "The Zionist enemy's arrest of colleague Ahmed Al-Kahlout comes after it completely halted the work of the Civil Defense in the Northern Governorate on October 22nd." He pointed out that the number of detainees from the Civil Defense in Gaza rose to 26 detainees during the war on Gaza.
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