Israeli Strike Wounds Director Of North Gaza’s Main, Barely Operational Hospital
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has become a patient in Kamal Adwan Hospital, his own barely operational facility that continues to face relentless Israeli attacks.
Israeli strikes this weekend on what’s considered north Gaza’s main hospital have resulted in about a dozen wounded staff, including the barely operational medical facility’s director, amid the region’s worsening humanitarian catastrophe.
For 50 days, Israeli forces have incessantly attacked the territory’s northernmost region, which includes the towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, walling the area off from the rest of Gaza in a way that has blocked most humanitarian aid from entering, rendering the north virtually uninhabitable.
Like the rest of Gaza, the Israeli military continues to attack the north’s health care system, including Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, where only two doctors remain. An overnight drone strike on the facility damaged its generator and oxygen supply, as well as seriously injured hospital chief Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya while he was sitting in his office.
Speaking from a patient bed at his own hospital’s intensive care unit, Abu Safiya said he was hit in the back and thigh by a kind of bomb he’d never seen before: a quadcopter drone containing tiny pieces of metal shrapnel that “can barely be seen by the naked eye.”
“Right now, I’m in need of an urgent consultation with a vascular surgeon due to the intensity of bleeding in the site of injury,” he said in a recording shared by the Gaza Health Ministry’s director general, Dr. Muneer Alboursh.
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