DayofPal– Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, said late Tuseday that a large number of children and elderly people continue to arrive to the hospital suffering from malnutrition.
Abu Safiya has several times accused the Israeli occupation of blocking the entry of food, water, medical staff, and medicines in addition to materials destined for the north, casting light on the dire situation of the hospital’s patients who have been succumbing to their injuries on a daily basis.
More than 36 children have been died of malnutrition since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, resulting from deliberate starvation policy by Netanyahu’s government against Gaza population, according to Gaza Government Media Office.
The WHO has also raised alarm over the dire conditions in hospitals across northern Gaza, with Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya facing what its director called an “extreme catastrophe.”
WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris expressed to journalists in Geneva that “We are very, very concerned, and it’s getting harder and harder to get the aid in. It’s getting harder and harder to get the specialist personnel in at a time when there is greater and greater need.”
Harris highlighted that Kamal Adwan Hospital was attacked again on Tuesday by Israeli troops, compounding its already critical situation, adding that between 8 and 16 November, “four WHO missions we were trying to get up to go were denied.”
Abu Safiya revealed yesterday that the Israeli army bombed all departments of the hospital unexpectedly, while they were trying to save an injured person in the intensive care unit, adding that they were able to shot the scene.
Abu Safiya emphasized yesterday that a crisis is unfolding, with children—four of whom are in critical condition—arriving at the facility suffering from severe malnutrition.
He also said that “We receive desperate calls for help every day, yet we are powerless to respond due to the lack of ambulances, civil defense teams and relentless Israeli siege, where people are cut off from water, food, and essential medicine.”
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