GAZA, Sunday, May 19, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces are besieging Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and treatment services cannot be provided to the injured and sick, according to medical sources.
The sources added that the occupation artillery bombed the hospital with several shells before surrounding it, preventing civilians and medical teams from entering or leaving it, which caused difficulty in providing treatment services to the injured and sick.
Press sources said that the occupation army bulldozed the vicinity of Al Awda Hospital.
On May 11, the occupation forces conducted a massive attack against the city of Jabalia and its camp in the northern Gaza Strip, after asking residents to evacuate the area and head towards the west of Gaza City.
Since the beginning of the aggression, the occupation forces have deliberately disrupted the health system by targeting hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Awda Hospital in the north, through direct threats of closure, and then targeting it with direct bombardment, destroying housing departments, operating rooms, the solar energy system, water and diesel stores, drug and medical gas warehouses, transport vehicles and ambulances and their medical supplies.
Al Awda Hospital is considered the only hospital that provides orthopedic, gynecological, and obstetrics services in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as general surgery, reception, emergency, specialized clinics, radiology, and the laboratory.
On November 21, three doctors were killed as a result of direct shelling, and 50% of the hospital’s capacity was taken out of service.
On December 5, the occupation army besieged the hospital for 18 days, while three workers were killed and 12 medical staff were injured.
In addition, volunteers, Ahmed Muhanna, who is a hospital doctor, and three medical staff were detained.
The ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza since October 7 has resulted so far in at least 35,386 documented Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 79,366 individuals sustaining injuries, according to the local health authorities. The majority of the victims are women and children.
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