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Tue 29 Oct 2024 7:55 pm - Jerusalem Time

Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza: The health system is collapsing and the wounded are dying

Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, Hussam Abu Safiya, announced on Tuesday that the health system in the region has completely collapsed, and that those who arrive at the hospital from the wounded from the Israeli raids die due to the lack of capabilities.


Abu Safiya said, "There are international delegations present in the southern Gaza Strip or abroad. We want the entire world to pressure Israel urgently to get these delegations and medical teams, especially surgical ones, to northern Gaza with medical supplies before it is too late."


He added that the health system has completely collapsed in northern Gaza, and that the wounded who arrive at the hospital die in light of the difficult reality that the health sector is going through.


He called for the necessity of bringing in ambulances and fuel, after the Israeli army destroyed several vehicles and put them out of service, noting that there are no ambulances in the northern Gaza Strip.


He added that there is no means of transporting the injured, and the injured who reach us either come themselves or are transported by citizens, and during this journey their blood runs out and they die.


The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital stressed that Israel is committing crimes of cleansing and genocide in northern Gaza against the residents and the health system.


He pointed out that there is only one doctor left in Kamal Adwan Hospital, and he cannot provide any surgical services to the injured.


He said we have a case of a child who needs an abdominal exploration to stop the bleeding, and this requires a surgeon who is not available. There are also children whose bones have come out of their bodies and they need orthopedic surgery, and there are brain injuries that require neurologists.


Abu Safiya described the situation as catastrophic in every sense of the word, with the wounded dying in the streets because they were not transported to hospitals and because of the lack of supplies and medical personnel.


He added that there are more than 150 wounded in Kamal Adwan Hospital, and we cannot provide them with anything except first aid, warning that one wounded person will be lost every hour due to the lack of doctors and medical staff.


Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli aircraft targeted a house belonging to the Abu Nasr family in the Beit Lahia project area, which consisted of several floors and was inhabited by 200 people.


The government media office in Gaza said in a statement that the occupation army is committing a terrible massacre by bombing a residential building in Beit Lahia, in which there are more than 200 civilians, 93 of whom were martyred, more than 40 are missing and dozens of injuries.


The office added that the occupation army knew that the residential building contained dozens of displaced civilians, and that the majority of them were children and women who had been displaced from their civilian residential neighborhoods.

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Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza: The health system is collapsing and the wounded are dying