Leave Gaza's Hospitals Alone
The Israel Defense Forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on Friday, for the third time. According to the World Health Organization, the operation forced the last working hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to suspend operations. Fires broke out in the hospital's laboratory and surgery department, and five medical staff members, including a pediatrician, were killed by IDF fire.
Around 350 people who were in the hospital were forced to leave and to undress. Some of the patients were transferred to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, which the IDF also raided last week.
Kamal Adwan's director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, whose son Ibrahim died in an Israeli airstrike on the hospital in October, was arrested by the army. His fate is unknown. Three Gaza physicians have died in Israeli prisons during interrogation or from lack of medical care.
