Israel was accused of raiding and burning rooms in Gaza hospitals

The health agency run by the armed group Hamas in the Gaza Strip said that on December 27, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raided Kamal Adwan, one of the last hospitals still operating in the northern part of the strip.

Israeli soldiers asked medical staff and patients to gather on the field and stripped them of their clothes. Some were taken to an unknown location, while a few patients were transferred to a nearby Indonesian hospital, although the facility was shut down after a recent Israeli airstrike.

News agency AP said that when conducting raids, the Israeli army often arrests people en masse and strips men naked for interrogation, which the force says is a security measure while searching for Hamas members.

Health authorities in Gaza said that during the raid on Kamal Adwan, Israeli soldiers also set fire to some areas of this facility, including the laboratory and surgery department.

“Fire is everywhere,” a female medical worker said in a recording posted on social media by hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya.

This person said some patients had their oxygen ventilators disconnected to be evacuated. “There are patients who could die at any moment,” she said.

Health authorities in Gaza said 25 patients and 60 medical staff were in Kamal Adwan hospital at the time of the incident, adding that five staff were killed in the raid a day earlier. Israel.

Staff at the hospital say the facility has been attacked several times in the past three months, while the Israeli military has waged operations against Hamas forces in neighboring areas.

Meanwhile, the IDF on December 27 accused Kamal Adwan hospital of becoming an “important stronghold” for armed groups, used by members of these groups as a hideout since the Israeli army captured them. began conducting larger-scale operations in northern Gaza in October.

The IDF said it launched an operation near the hospital after receiving intelligence about the presence of “infrastructure and agents” of armed groups here.

“Soldiers are conducting operations to localize the area, while minimizing damage to civilians, patients and unrelated medical staff,” the force said, without mentioning the accusation of launching a fire. set fire and stripped naked medical staff and patients of health authorities in Gaza.

Israel’s attack launched in October caused the three areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza to be almost completely blockaded, and destroyed much of the infrastructure.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave the area, but thousands are still believed to remain. The Israeli army raided Kamal Adwan hospital in October and entered the Indonesian hospital on December 24, relocating many people.