GAZA, (PIC)
The Ministry of Health in Gaza denounced the Israeli raid and destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the arrest of its director, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlout, and forcing him to make confessions under duress.
The Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, that the Israeli occupation forces targeted hospitals, primary care centers, mental health centers, ambulances, non-governmental institutions, and health and humanitarian work personnel in violation of the international law.
The Ministry affirmed that Al-Kahlout’s statements which were published in a video clip, were recorded while he was subjected to illegal investigation, stressing that his statements were extracted under intimidation and coercion to make confessions under the influence of torture and severe beatings.
The Ministry explained that Al-Kahlout works within the staff of the Military Medical Services, which is an official body affiliated with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior and listed under the approved components of the Palestinian National Authority.
The statement also pointed out that the rank of brigadier general is a job rank in the medical services apparatus affiliated with the Ministry of Interior, and these ranks are known and used all over the world.
The medical service personnel receiving training and courses specific to the nature of the work of the Ministry of Interior is also a routine procedure followed globally.
The presence of the medical investigations and official agencies of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior inside the hospital came as a result of the destruction of the infrastructure of these devices and due to the need for a place that provides the necessary work requirements, which are approved devices within the structure of the Ministry of Interior, the statement added.
The Ministry stressed that the Israeli occupation seeks to justify its successive crimes, especially its targeting of the health system, in the wake of its failure to prove its allegations about the presence of alleged control centers under the buildings of Al- Shifa Medical Complex.
The Ministry called on human rights organizations to open an urgent probe into Kamal Adwan Hospital massacre, where Israeli occupation forces besieged children with no access to water, food, and electricity for extended days, which ended up with the bombing of the hospital, the death of two women and two sick children, and the injury of dozens.
This was followed by storming the hospital, arresting dozens of displaced people, patients, and health personnel, amid brutal attacks against them all. Graves were exhumed, the hospital was knocked down, bodies were crushed under tank tracks, and many other horrific details.
