{"id":300585,"date":"2024-12-18T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300585"},"modified":"2024-12-20T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T09:07:50","slug":"israeli-snipers-fire-at-patients-staff-at-kamal-adwan-hospital-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300585","title":{"rendered":"Israeli snipers fire at patients, staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital, director says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Palestinians pray over the body of a child, killed in an Israeli strike, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Dec 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the last working hospitals in besieged northern Gaza, says Israeli snipers fired at patients and staff in the intensive care unit (ICU).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, the snipers targeted the ICU \u201cfor the first time\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201call the hospital windows were hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in the hospital is getting worse, and it will turn into a graveyard for everyone inside the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone moving around the hospital wards was at risk of being hit, creating a very dangerous situation for patients and staff,\u201d\u00a0Safiya said, adding that the regime\u2019s quadcopters were also firing at \u201canyone who moves in the courtyard of the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Saffiya, calls on the International Community and the WHO to intervene and protect the hospital after Israeli snipers targeted the ICU staff and electricity went down due to an Israeli attack on the power generators. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/syzZ8L8vTo\">pic.twitter.com\/syzZ8L8vTo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PALESTINE ONLINE \uf1f5\uf1f8 (@OnlinePalEng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnlinePalEng\/status\/1868954845748904112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Safiya\u00a0said that it was \u201cclear that the focus is on the hospital\u2014 its building, its surroundings, and anyone moving inside it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital reiterated an appeal for \u201cinternational protection,\u201d urging the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world community to \u201cintervene urgently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Safiya\u00a0said that staff and patients are enduring \u201cdifficult hours without electricity, oxygen or water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,\u00a0described the situation in the hospital as \u201csimply appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WHO<\/a> and partners reached Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaza<\/a> two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission. The team delivered 5000 liters of fuel, food and medicines, and transferred 3 patients and 6 companions to Al-Shifa\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N7V0O824Sq\">pic.twitter.com\/N7V0O824Sq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1868728190048649727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a message on X on Monday, he urged \u201cfor the protection of health care and for this hell to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHostilities around the hospital continue and recent attacks have further damaged the oxygen supply, generators, and broken windows and doors of the patients&#8217; rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military has attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital more than 20 times in the past 10 days, according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,\u00a0who said \u201cseveral patients, medical personnel, and their companions\u201d have been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is \u201croutinely\u201d targeting medical teams in the north of Gaza \u201cto destroy the health system and impose intolerable living conditions on civilians while denying them access to life-saving care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The besieged population of northern Gaza have been facing starvation, displacement and annihilation amid relentless bombardment and suffocating restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid for more than two months.\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say what the Israeli regime is currently doing before the eyes of the world in the area is land grabs under the threat of extermination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/12\/17\/739264\/Israeli-snipers-target-Northern-Gaza-hospital-ICU-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDF snipers are targeting patients and staff in the Intensive Care Unit at one of the last remaining hospitals in northern Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":300587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300586,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300585\/revisions\/300586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}