Israel strike kills a guard after Kuwait specialty field hospital in Gaza says Israeli strikes
The director of the medical institution said an Israeli strike injured 10 patients in a field hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday.
Two days after the deadly attack at the Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital in Khan Younis, Israel strikes attacked one of the last functional medical centers in the enclave: the AHLI ARAB ARAB HOSPICY compound in Gaza. The strike highlighted the instability of the health care sector in Gaza, and the war had been destroyed.
Israel's army – said the strike target of the Hamas command center was the Hamas command center, but he said it was studying reports of attacks on specialty hospitals in Kuwait.
Dr. Suhaib al-Hamss, director of the Field Hospital, said the guards were killed to protect the entrance to the facility. He added that four of them suffered serious injuries after being injured, noting that the attack hit the edge of the hospital.
“It was a powerful strike,” Dr. Al-Hamss, 37, said in a telephone interview. “Everything collapsed.”
Others in the hospital said the strike prompted patients to flee the hospital.
“It’s a frightening moment,” said Mohammed Abu Ghali, a field coordinator at the U.S. NGO Heal Pasementine.
Israel's military offensive has caused great damage to the health care system in hospitals and enclaves. The World Health Organization reported last month that 33 of Gaza's 36 hospitals were damaged, and only 21 were still in effect. On Saturday, it warned that hospitals in Gaza faced an imminent shortage of drugs as Israel had locked down six weeks of aid.
Israeli officials say the medical center’s goal is because Hamas fighters are embedded inside and outside the facility, which is the only way to take root in armed groups. Hamas and medical staff denied the allegation.
The New York Times examined evidence suggests that Hamas used the AL SHIFA hospital in Gaza (which the Israeli military attacked) to cover and store weapons. The Israeli military has not provided similar extensive evidence about its attacks on most other health care centers.
Dr. Al-Hamss said the location of the Kuwait specialty hospital is known to the Israeli authorities because it was shared through intermediaries before the attack. He added that staff were under scrutiny and that the Hamas government office was not chaired in the medical facility.
“We did nothing but medicine,” he said.
According to Dr. Al-Hamss, the specialized hospital in Kuwait treats at least 3,500 patients a day.
“The hospital is providing people with solutions to the collapse of Heath's department in Gaza,” he said.
Since the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last month, the Israeli military has begun a major bombing campaign and has occupied territory in Gaza. Israeli officials said the offense was a bid to force Hamas to release more hostages in the enclave.
Data from the Gaza Ministry of Health shows that more than 1,600 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire collapsed and more than 51,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire collapsed. The ministry did not distinguish between civilians and combatants in the number of casualties.
Doctors at the Gaza Hospital said many of the people injured and killed in recent weeks were children. On April 3, Israel saw more than a dozen injured children in the emergency room of an Arab hospital after turning to a shelter at a nearby school. The Israeli military also accused Hamas of embedding schools – later said the strikes were targeted at well-known militants at the Hamas command center and were not named.
Patrick Kingsley A report was contributed to this article.
