Health official: The Israeli army is investigating the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital

A health official in the Gaza Strip said that Israeli army forces that attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Northern Governorate earlier today, Friday, searched its director, Hossam Abu Safiya.

This came in a statement by the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Maher Shamiya, to Anadolu Agency.

Shamiya explained that the Israeli forces – who stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza – forced their leader, Hussam Abu Safiya, to go to the square to meet the commander of the storm force and investigate.

He said that the army is still keeping patients, their companions, and medical staff inside the hospital, indicating that their fate is unknown, apart from its director.

Shamiya said that at the beginning of the storm, the army separated the women from the men in the hospital courtyard, while they let the women go towards Gaza City, forcing the men to to take off clothes, cut some of them with hands, and put others under control. to field research.

The health official called on international institutions and UN agencies to intervene immediately to protect health workers and patients there, and to force the Israeli army to withdraw from hospitals in the countryside and fuel, food, to bring in water and medicines.

Earlier, the Ministry of Health announced that the Israeli army stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital and displaced hundreds of patients, medical staff, and people inside, while it said The World Health Organization said they had lost contact with the hospital.

Hospital director Abu Safiya also said in a statement to Anadolu Agency before his detention that the army put hospitals in northern Gaza out of service after a severe siege.

The Israeli attack and bombing in various areas of the Northern Gaza Government continues.