The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is now shut, much of it demolished and burned by the Israeli forces, after repeated raids in recent months. The World Health Organization reports that the facility is “destroyed and nonfunctional.” The WHO issued a report on the atrocity this morning.
The IDF declared today that they have detained hospital director Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, under suspicion “of being a Hamas terrorist operative.” His whereabouts are unknown. Other staff have been arrested.
Dr. Abu Safiya posted an alarm on social media yesterday, during the time the hospital was under assault. Since then, as reported by various sources, staff and patients were ordered to go outside and strip down. Anyone refusing to strip was beaten, CNN today quotes several patients and staff. Abdulrahman Rayan said, “There was no limit to the beating. They struck people on the head with hoses. They dragged three people at a time, including an injured person with a cast, and beat them on their heads. They spared no one—not the injured, not the elderly, not the children.”
