An Israeli strike killed a security guard on Tuesday and injured 10 patients in a field hospital in South Gaza, according to the director of the medical installation.
The fatal attack on the Kuwait Specialty Hospital’s field of Khan Younis arrived two days after an Israeli Hit Strike Hit One of the last medical centers that work on the enclave: Arabic Hospital Composed in the city of Gaza. The strikes revealed the precarious state of the Gaza welfare sector, which has been decimated by the war.
The Israeli military – who said that the Arab Arab Hospital strike pointed for a Hamas command center, without providing tests – said he was studying reports on an attack on Kuwait’s specialty hospital.
Dr. Suhaib al-Hamss, director of Field Hospital, said that the guard was killed by protecting the entrance to the installation. Four of the injured suffered serious injuries, he added, saying that the attack struck the edge of the hospital enclosure.
« It was a powerful strike, » said Dr. Al-Hamss, 37, in a telephone interview. « Everything fell. »
Others from the hospital said that the strike pushed patients to flee the hospital.
« It was a scary moment, » said Mohammed Abu Ghali, a field coordinator of Heal Palestine, a North -American Non -Government Organization that funds field hospital.
The military offensive of Israel has caused immense damage to hospitals and the health care system for the enclave. The World Health Organization informed Last month, 33 of the 36 Gaza hospitals had been damaged and only 21 remained functional. Saturday IT warned That Gaza hospitals are facing a shortage of medicines because Israel has blocked help deliveries for six weeks.
Israeli officials say that Medical centers have directed Because Hamas fighters are incorporated into and under the facilities and that is the only way to take root the armed group. Hamas and medical workers have denied this accusation.
Evidence examined by the New York Times Suggests that Hamas has used the hospital in the SHIF of the city of Gaza, that the Israeli army has attacked, to cover and store weapons inside. The Israeli army has not presented similar evidence over most of the other health care centers.
Dr. al-Hamss said that the location of the Kuwait specialty hospital was known to Israeli authorities, as it had been shared through intermediaries before the attack. He added that the staff were reviewed and that the Hamas government offices did not stay at the medical installation.
« We are doing nothing but medicine, » he said.
Kuwait Specialty Camp Hospital was a minimum of 3,500 patients each day, according to Dr. Al-Hamss.
« The Hospital, » he said, « provides a solution to the people in view of the collapse of the heat sector in Gaza. »
From the last month’s collapse of a cessation of fire between Israel and Hamas, the military of Israel has it embarked on an important bombing campaign and seized the territory in Gaza. Israeli officials have said that the offensive is an offer To force Hamas to launch more hostages detained in the enclave.
More than 1,600 people have been killed in Gaza since the cessation of fire has been undone, among the more than 51,000 murders since the beginning of the war, according to the figures of the Gaza Ministry of Health. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and fighters in their loss nuclei.
Gaza hospitals doctors have said that many of these injured and killed in recent weeks have been children. On April 3, More than a dozen injured children They were seen in the emergency room of Arab Hospital AHLI after the Israeli strikes at a nearby school was welcomed. Israeli military -who has also accused Hamas of incorporating in schools -later said these strikes They were aimed at well-known militants at a Hamas command center, without appointing them.
Patrick Kingsley contributed to informing this article.
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