The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, said that the besieged hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip was subjected today to what he described as “heavy Israeli artillery shelling” that affected its entrances and sections, which led to the injury of a number of workers and wounded, in addition to the scattering of shrapnel in the reception and emergency departments.

In an audio message, Abu Safiya called on the international community to intervene to stop what he called the “mechanism of killing and bombing”, noting that it is necessary to provide protection for hospitals.

Abu Safiya described the targeting of the hospital as “a crime against the health system, and the world must stop it immediately, because we are dealing with the injured and wounded amid the Israeli bombardment that targets us from every side.”

Abu Safiya also spoke about what he said was the ongoing targeting of doctors among their families. Abu Safiya said: “We held the funeral of some martyrs, as a house next to the hospital belonging to the family of doctor Hani Badran was targeted, and all those who were in the house were martyred.”

This comes a day after more than seventy people were killed in the bombing of two homes inhabited by displaced people in the same area.