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The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza: Providing medical care amidst conflict and controversy

The Indonesian Hospital was completed in 2015 and serves approximately 400,000 people in Gaza

Khabarni – The Indonesian Medical Rescue and Emergency Committee “Mercy-Indonesia”, which supervised the construction and financing of the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip, denied the Israeli occupation army’s allegations that the hospital has a relationship with Palestinian factions or the use of tunnels under it.

A number of officials and volunteers in the Mercy Indonesia Committee said in a press conference in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, today, Monday, that the hospital is located on an area of ​​1.6 hectares (a hectare equals 10 dunums) in Beit Lahia, north of the Strip, and is composed of several buildings, the most important of which is the main building consisting of It has 4 floors, in addition to a water tank and a fuel tank, an ambulance parking lot, and an electrical generator building.

The officials – including the engineer who participated and supervised the construction of the hospital – confirmed that the hospital’s goal is to provide assistance and health care to the victims.

They pointed out that the hospital, like other hospitals in Gaza during the past weeks, faces threats to bomb it, and it has actually been bombed several times, and the areas near it have been bombed by Israeli warplanes. It has recently faced a fuel crisis and a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, and there is an urgent need. To support his medical staff.

The hospital – whose construction was completed in 2015 and serves approximately 400,000 people – was bombed on the first day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and a vehicle inside it was targeted, resulting in the martyrdom of two workers.

The Israeli occupation continues its violent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and the Ministry of Health in Gaza has counted 9,770 martyrs since the beginning of the aggression about a month ago, and confirmed that 70% of the victims of the aggression are women and children.

2023-11-06 15:14:51

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