Director of north Gaza hospital said detained by IDF

Officials from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry say that Israeli forces detained the director the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

“The occupation forces have taken dozens of the medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital to a detention center for interrogation, including the director, Hossam Abu Safiyeh,” the ministry says said in a statement.

The Gaza civil defense agency also reports that Abu Safiyeh had been detained, adding that the agency’s director for the north, Ahmed Hassan al-Kahlout was among those held.

There is no immediate confirmation from the IDF, which yesterday said that it had been conducting operations against Hamas infrastructure and operatives in the area, and that it had ordered people out of the hospital. However, the IDF denied entering the Kamal Adwan complex as of Friday evening.

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