IDF bombs north Gaza's last functioning hospital's essential departments – dialysis center, engineering, water tanks and supplies warehouse
By bellecarter // 2024-11-05
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On Thursday, Oct. 31, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched another an attack on Beit Lahia's Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in north Gaza, killing at least four people – including two children – and causing serious damage to its essential departments. The attack massively destroyed the hospital's desalination plant in the kidney dialysis department, the engineering and maintenance departments and water tanks. It also caused a fire at the warehouse of medicines and medical supplies that had been received by the World Health Organization (WHO) just a few days ago. The IDF, which announced last week that it had withdrawn from the said hospital, claimed it was "unaware of a strike" but it is looking into reports of the Thursday attack at the hospital. The Israeli troops once again bombed the hospital after it just targeted its oxygen station, which also led to the deaths of several patients, among them were children. Surgical operations have been reportedly suspended completely due to the ongoing aggression. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah, the hospital's director, pleaded for help in a recorded message, asking "anyone with surgical expertise" to immediately report to the hospital. "We currently have no surgeons on site," he said. "There are children with abdominal shrapnel injuries who need exploratory surgery and bleeding control before it is too late." The bombing also came the week after Israeli troops stormed the hospital and abducted dozens of patients and medical staff, claiming they nabbed 100 "terrorists." Before the most recent attack on Oct. 31, there was only one medic left running the hospital after the IDF held it under siege for days, Dr. Khalil Daqran, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, said. "Conditions in northern Gaza are catastrophic: there is no water, food or baby formula. Infrastructure has been decimated, sewage and waste are piling up among the residents, leading to the spread of disease and epidemics," Daqran added. Kamal Adwan Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital, which is also besieged, are the last two functioning hospitals in northern Gaza. According to reports, over 1,000 have been killed and thousands of others displaced as part of Israel's ethnic cleansing operations, the so-called "Generals' Plan." The said project aims to exterminate over 100,000 Palestinians who remain in north Gaza and turn the area into an isolated military zone. (Related: IDF confirms ethnic cleansing plan currently underway in northern Gaza.) However, locals have refused to leave the north out of fear that the military will not let them return if they cross the Netzarim Corridor to go south. The Iran-backed militant group Hamas said in a statement on Oct. 24 that it had already launched an "intensive" diplomatic and political campaign aimed at destroying Israel's "Generals' Plan."

Genocidal operation disrupts "polio vaccination campaign"

The people Israelis could not exterminate using vaccinations, they will expel using bombs. According to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli army's Palestinian civilian affairs agency, it facilitated the launch of the second round of a polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza on Saturday. A massive 58,604 children reportedly received a dose. However, the Gaza health ministry reported that the vaccination drives for children in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun were being disrupted by Israel's military offensive in northern Gaza. It said one clinic had come under Israeli fire while parents brought their children for the anti-polio dose on Saturday and that four children had been injured. The WHO said in a statement that the clinic incident took place despite a humanitarian pause agreed upon by the two warring parties, Israel and Hamas, to allow the vaccination campaign. "A @WHO team was at the site just before. This attack, during a humanitarian pause, jeopardizes the sanctity of health protection for children and may deter parents from bringing their children for vaccination," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X on Saturday, calling for a halt in the extermination operations. "These vital humanitarian-area-specific pauses must be absolutely respected. Ceasefire!" Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Burns met with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in Cairo and discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, the White House recently said. Meanwhile, at least 31 people were killed during the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as per Palestinian medics. Palestinians said the new aerial and ground offensives and forced evacuations were ethnic cleansing aimed at emptying two northern Gaza towns and a camp of their population to create buffer zones. However, Israel denied this, claiming that it was the Hamas militants who launched the attacks. On Saturday, the Israeli military sent a new army division to Jabalia to join two other operating battalions, a statement said. It said that hundreds of Palestinian militants have been killed in the "battles" since the raid began on Oct. 5. Check out IsraelCollapse.com for more stories related to Israel's ethnic cleansing efforts in Gaza.

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