Hitting hospital: Israel killing doctors, patients

November 5, 2024 - 22:12

Medical sources in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes against the besieged territory killed 70 Palestinians in a course of 24 hours.

More than two dozen Palestinians, including 13 children were killed in Israeli attacks in the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza and many are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings. 

The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has shared a live video documenting Israel’s bombardment of the medical facility.

Dr Hossam Abu Safiya’s video captures the upper floor of the hospital being bombed by Israeli forces with nurses and wounded patients fleeing as the bombardment intensifies.

“Patients and children run amid the Israeli occupation bombing the hospital and water tanks! As if the siege is not enough and patients and doctors must die of thirst,” Abu Safiya wrote.

Kamal Adwan Hospital is the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza.

The Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from Israel's war in Gaza, which began in October last year, has reached approximately 43,400, with over 102,000 others injured.