Israeli forces detain director of north Gaza's last major hospital, health officials say

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28 December 2024 at 2:55 am·1-min read

A file photo showing Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hossam Abu Safiyeh being treated by colleagues for his injuries following an Israeli strike that hit the medical compound in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, late on November 23, 2024.

Israeli forces have detained the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital – the last major health facility in northern Gaza – for interrogation alongside dozens of other medical staff, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said Saturday. The WHO has said that the hospital has been put out of service by an Israeli raid.

Gaza health officials and the WHO said Saturday that an Israeli military raid targeting Hamas militants has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director.

The military said it intercepted two projectiles fired toward Israel from northern Gaza, a rare attack more than 14 months into Israel's war with the Palestinian militants, whose top leaders have been killed.

Since October 6, Israeli operations in Gaza have focused on the north, where they are carrying out a land and air offensive they say aims to prevent Hamas from regrouping but which the United Nations on Tuesday said had left north Gaza "under a near-total siege".

The military's assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia has rendered the facility "useless", further worsening Gaza's severe health crisis, the Palestinian territory's health officials said.

The World Health Organization said the operation had put the "last major health facility in north Gaza out of service".

"Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid," it added in a statement on X.

Hamas has denied the accusations.

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