The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, said on Friday that the hospital did not receive any response to calls to provide ambulances and send medical delegations to serve the injured and sick in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.

On 5 October, the Israeli army, which has been waging an aggression against Gaza for more than a year, began a ground invasion in the north of the Strip, amid constant shelling, siege and starvation of the population.

According to government officials, the health system was out of service, as well as the work of the Palestinian Red Crescent Civil Defense and ambulances.

Abu Safiya stressed the difficult health situation of about 200 patients and injured people in the hospital.
“Unfortunately, we have not yet obtained any approval through the World Health Organization, the Red Cross and humanitarian organizations to form a team and break through this siege imposed on our health system, and to bring in delegations with surgical specialties, medical supplies and ambulances,” he said in a video clip.

Large numbers of citizens are being targeted and rescuing them requires mechanisms and tools to remove rubble, he said.
“Cases of famine began to be recorded at Kamal Adwan Hospital in children and adults, where patients began to show signs of pallor and malnutrition,” he said.

Patients in northern Gaza are dying and deliberately left to this fate.

He added that the occupation arrested specialized doctors who are able to perform surgeries, the last of which was the only orthopedic doctor at Kamal Adwan Mohammed Obaid Hospital, who works with Médecins Sans Frontières.

The occupation army not only prevents the evacuation and evacuation of these wounded, but also prevents the admission of medical delegations to hospitals where they are lying.