The Occupation Intensifies Its War on Hospitals in North Gaza

By Yousef Fares – Oct 25, 2024

Yesterday’s attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip revealed the enemy’s escalating brutality. The enemy military force, armed with every instrument of killing and destruction, targeted a civilian medical facility that had already been under siege for twenty days. The hospital was overcrowded with more than 160 critically ill patients. The occupation’s attack, which took place under the cover of concentrated artillery and aerial bombardment targeting the intensive care unit in the hospital, occurred at a time when medical teams were waiting for the arrival of a convoy from the United Nations and the World Health Organization. This convoy was loaded with diesel fuel, medical supplies, and units of blood for transfusion. The enemy’s army intended to carry out a show of force in view of the United Nations and international institutions, as a message that conveyed the highest levels of arrogance and its determination to implement its displacement and extermination campaign.

According to the enemy’s Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, be believes that from a military perspective, the enemy’s army has “taken down the Jabalia camp.” He stated that “the extensive attacks on northern Gaza has physically incapacitated Hamas and disrupted its operational capabilities.” However, it should be noted that all targets attacked by the occupation, even after 20 days of the operation, are merely civilian shelters, hospitals, and residents’ homes. As for the displaced, they are those who refused to comply with evacuation orders made by the occupation which demanded that they move to the south. A senior official in the occupation army commented in a statement to Channel 14, saying, “the siege of Jabalia is the biggest deception, as residents are not evacuating southward toward the Netzarim checkpoint, but primarily to the Tuffah, Daraj, and Shuja’iyya areas. As soon as we leave Jabalia, they will return there and terrorism will return with them.”

This show of fire did not stop with the attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital. Quadcopter drones pursued the ambulance and civil defense crews the night before last, ordering personnel to leave their vehicles and head south after passing through the checkpoint near the Indonesian Hospital. When they refused the evacuation orders, the occupation forces launched several missiles at them from an aircraft, injuring three of them and halting the work of all service teams. Yesterday morning, artillery units shelled the upper floor of the Al-Awda hospital in the Tal al-Zaatar neighborhood, while enemy tanks launched a brutal attack on four shelters where thousands of displaced people were taking refuge, forcing them to evacuate the area. As a result, all medical services ceased in the besieged areas. Moreover, occupation warplanes committed a horrific massacre by demolishing a residential block on al-Huja Street, leading to the deaths and injuries of 150 citizens in ten homes that were destroyed on top of their residents, who were left to bleed to death, without anyone being able to transport them to the hospital.

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The enemy wanted to put on a show in front of the United Nations and international institutions to confirm its insistence on displacement

On the road to Gaza City, enemy soldiers sadistically terrorized the displaced families. According to testimonies from survivors who reached the city, the occupation army dug a large pit and gathered women and children in it during the afternoon, deliberately keeping them there for three hours while its soldiers fired guns and launched bombs around them before allowing them to pass into the city. Enemy soldiers also intentionally shot at the feet of several displaced persons. As for the men, they were beaten, while others were dressed in white shrouds and thrown into the pit, with soldiers deliberately terrorizing them by passing bulldozers and tanks beside them and firing shells in their vicinity.

The enemy aims to humiliate the supporters of the resistance who have defied evacuation and displacement orders for an entire year, entrenching themselves in northern Gaza, largely to attempt to enhance feelings of accomplishment among the occupation soldiers. However, the reality is that those who the enemy seeks to break are civilians, who are supposed to be outside the scope of combat and not used to achieve military objectives.

As for the resistance fighters, the situation is entirely different. They have not surrendered nor have they raised the white flag.

(Al-Akhbar) by Yousef Fares

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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