Gaza hospital director says his son was killed in Israeli shelling

 The director of a besieged hospital in northern Gaza said that his 21-year-old son was killed by Israeli shelling on the facility on Saturday.

Ibrahim, the son of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, was killed at the entrance of the Kamal Adwan Hospital when he was approaching to see if the Israeli army had withdrawn, his father said.

“His dream was to become a doctor,” Abu Safiya told CNN.

His son was volunteering to help treat the wounded after a shortage in medical staff at the hospital, Abu Safiya said.

“He was with me around the clock in the intensive care unit and other departments,” he added.

The hospital has been besieged by the Israeli military, which has alleged that “terrorists” were present in the area. The facility was subject to a series of raids on Friday where Abu Safiya said he was detained and interrogated by the Israel Defense Forces over unidentified wounded patients being treated in the hospital.

“We have injured and wounded patients whose families have not identified them yet, and they remain nameless … and so I was accused of bringing in resistance fighters and treating them, which is not true,” Abu Safiya said.

“The soldier beat me and insulted me in front of the medical staff,” the doctor alleged.

The hospital director said that, along with an assistant, he’s the last remaining doctor in the hospital. Several patients require surgeries but without a team, the overwhelmed doctor does not “know what to do.”

“It’s just me and one assistant, and I am overwhelmed by cases that mostly involve amputations and burns,” he said.