Hamas calls for UN observers at Gaza hospitals amid Israeli raids
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called on the UN to send observers to the few remaining hospitals in Gaza as Israel intensifies attacks on medical facilities.
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“The criminal Zionist occupation army’s systematic targeting and destruction of medical facilities and hospitals — the latest example of which was the burning and bombing of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza — places a historical responsibility on the shoulders of the UN and the international community for their failures to stop the war of extermination and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people,” Hamas said in its latest statement on Saturday.
Hamas urged the UN and relevant international organizations to urgently intervene to protect the remaining hospitals and medical facilities in northern Gaza and provide them with their needs.
The statement comes a day after the Israeli forces raided Kamal al-Adwan Hospital, the last major health facility in North Gaza out of service.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the systematic dismantling of the health system and a siege for over 80 days on North Gaza puts the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians remaining in the area at risk.
Initial reports indicate that some areas of the hospital were burnt and severely damaged during the raid, including the laboratory, surgical unit, engineering and maintenance department, operations theatre, and the medical store.
Earlier in the day, twelve patients and a female health staff were reportedly forced to evacuate to destroyed and non-functional Indonesian Hospital where it is not possible to provide any care, while the majority of the staff, stable patients and companions were moved to a nearby location.
Additionally, some people were reportedly stripped and forced to walk toward southern Gaza. Over the last two months, the area around the hospital has remained highly volatile and attacks on the hospitals and on health workers have occurred almost daily.
