GAZA, (PIC)
Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday evening that two children died at the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli fire hit oxygen equipment.
“Two children have died in the intensive care unit after the hospital’s generators failed and the oxygen station was targeted,” the health ministry said in a statement as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the hospital in Jabalia refugee camp and kidnaped civilians.
Israeli forces “are searching the hospital and firing inside its different departments, increasing the panic and anxiety”, the ministry added.
The ministry said that some 600 civilians were inside the hospital, including patients, injured people, medical staff, employees and caregivers.
The ministry pointed out that the Israeli army destroyed three ambulances and a transport vehicle at the hospital as well as its solar electric system.
The ministry said the IOF kidnaped dozens of staff, patients and displaced people, mostly young men, during the raid on the hospital, and interrogated and humiliated them.
Later, the IOF released a number of them, but the fate of many other detainees was unknown.
Reports from the hospital said that Israeli soldiers kidnaped hundreds of civilians from the hospital and neighborhoods around it, forced them to undress to their underwear and gathered them in a nearby open area.
The IOF laid siege to northern Gaza about three weeks ago, attacking from air and ground, while embarking on surrounding and bombing hospitals, refugee shelters and homes, killing and kidnaping residents, and ordering families to head south.
