Israeli forces detain male staff at besieged northern Gaza hospital, health ministry says
Israeli forces have detained male medical staff at the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, the enclave’s health ministry said.
Israeli forces entered the hospital on Friday and opened fire at parts of the facility, medical authorities said, who warned the hospital is running low on supplies and in desperate need of aid.
In its latest statement, the health ministry also said that women in the hospital were confined in a room without access to water or food.
“At this time… the occupation forces are detaining all male medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip, as well as several wounded and ill individuals inside the hospital, while confining women in one of the hospital rooms without water or food,” the health ministry said in a statement.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Friday that the WHO had lost touch with Kamal Adwan Hospital staff, calling the development “disturbing.”
On the same day, the United Nations’ human rights chief Volker Türk warned that “one of the darkest moments of the Gaza conflict” was taking place in the north of the Strip, which he suggested could amount to “crimes against humanity.”
CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment but was unable to receive an immediate response.
In a statement on Friday, the Israeli military said that the IDF forces were operating around Kamal Adwan Hospital “based on intelligence information regarding the presence of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure.”
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