Israeli forces detain director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital

CAIRO – 28 December 2024: The Israeli occupation forces detained the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, one night after storming it and burning and destroying most of its departments.

The occupation forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday hours after besieging it, burned its facilities and abused those inside, including patients, the injured and medical staff, before detaining a number of them and forcing others to take off their clothes in the bitter cold and forcibly evacuate them, in conjunction with gunfire and shelling around it, Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said.

Medical sources reported that the patients and injured who were forcibly evacuated from Kamal Adwan to the Indonesian Hospital lived a "harsh night" in a very difficult and miserable situation, with no water, electricity, blankets, food or supplies.

They said that the countdown to losing their lives has begun, in light of the occupation's detention of most of the medical staff so that they do not join the patients in the Indonesian Hospital, noting that the occupation had previously destroyed the infrastructure of the "Indonesian" before forcibly evacuating the patients to it.