The director of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and the Hamas-run territory’s civil defense agency says Israel conducted several strikes today that hit the facility.
“There was a series of airstrikes on the northern and western sides of the hospital, accompanied by intense and direct fire,” Hossam Abu Safieh says, adding that four staff were killed and no surgeons are left at the site.
The IDF has not yet responded to AFP requests for comment on the strikes.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the Hamas-run civil defense agency in Gaza, tells AFP that the IDF entered Kamal Adwan Hospital this morning, evacuated patients, and arrested several Palestinians.
The city of Beit Lahiya has been the site of an intense IDF operation aiming to stop Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza for the past two months.
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