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Israeli raid knocks out last hospital in northern Gaza

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Last updated: 2024/12/28 at 7:00 AM
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An Israeli military raid on a hospital in Gaza has put the last major health facility in the besieged strip’s north out of service, exacerbating a deepening humanitarian crisis in the enclave, according to the UN’s health agency.

The attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital came as Israel stepped up an offensive in northern Gaza that began in October and has killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands to flee.

The Israeli military said it is fighting to prevent Hamas regrouping in Gaza’s north, where most of the population have been forced to flee during Israel’s 14-month offensive against the Palestinian militant group.

The World Health Organisation said initial reports indicated that key departments of the medical facility were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid on Friday.

It said that 60 health workers and 25 patients in critical condition, including those on ventilators, remained at the hospital, while others were forced to evacuate to another damaged hospital.

“The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of healthcare,” WHO said in a statement late on Friday. “This horror must end and healthcare must be protected.”

The Palestinian health ministry said Kamal Adwan’s operating and surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance, ambulance units and warehouses had “been completely burnt”.

“The occupation army is forcibly transferring the sick and injured, at gunpoint . . . to the Indonesian hospital, which lacks medical supplies, water, medicines and even electricity and generators,” it said in a statement. “There are patients who are threatened with death at any moment as a result of the harsh conditions.”

The Israeli military said it began operations “in the area” of Kamal Adwan following intelligence that Hamas militants were using the hospital.

It added that its troops were “conducting targeted operations in the area while mitigating harm to uninvolved civilians, patients and medical personnel”. It has said its forces were not responsible for a fire in the hospital.

Hamas denied that its fighters were using the hospital for military activities.

UN agencies and humanitarian groups have repeatedly condemned Israel for attacking medical facilities in Gaza since it launched its offensive against Hamas after the Palestinian group’s October 7, 2023 attack killed 1,200 people.

The WHO said it had verified 516 attacks on health facilities and medical transport in Gaza, adding that more than 90 per cent of the strip’s medical facilities were either damaged or destroyed.

The Israeli offensive in northern Gaza has continued as mediators push for a deal to end the war and to secure the release of the remaining Israeli hostages held in the strip before US president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next month.

The operation has reduced Jabalia, which before the war was the largest refugee camp in Gaza and home to more than 100,000 people, to rubble, and expanded to neighbouring Beit Lahia where the Kamal Adwan Hospital is located.

On Saturday, the Israeli military said its forces had begun operations in the Beit Hanoun district.

Israel’s offensive has killed more than 45,000 people, according to Palestinian health officials, and forced the vast majority of the strip’s 2.3mn people from their homes.

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