All three remaining hospitals in northern Gaza are under attack. Kamal Adwan Hospital has come under direct artillery fire, resulting in the serious injury of a child. Al Awda Hospital has also been shelled, and Indonesian Hospital hit by drone strikes. The Israeli military is killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinians a day and the patients in need of lifesaving care in Northern Gaza are now left helpless under siege.
- Last week, the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital stated that Israeli forces arrested and deported all the medical staff and only one pediatrician remained in the hospital out of all the specialties.
- WHO also reported that the Israeli army targeted Sheikh Radwan primary health care centre in northern Gaza while parents were bringing their children to the life-saving polio vaccination in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed. Six people, including four children, were injured.
- WHO also reported that Israeli airstrikes targeted the third floor of Kamal Adwan Hospital destroying the medicine warehouse of WHO medical supplies.
These latest attacks by Israeli forces are part of a sustained assault on Gaza's health system, amounting to war crimes and the crime of extermination. Israel is making Palestinian survival in northern Gaza impossible as part of a policy of sustained pressure and forcible expulsion. The international community must not allow this brutality to go unchallenged.