Health official: The Israeli army is subjecting the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital to investigation

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A health official in the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli army forces that stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in the North Governorate earlier today, Friday, subjected its director, Hossam Abu Safiya, to investigation.

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

Shamiya explained that the Israeli forces – which stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza – forced its director, Hussam Abu Safiya, to go to the square to meet the commander of the storming force and undergo investigation.

He added that the army continues to detain patients, their companions, and medical staff inside the hospital, pointing out that their fate, in addition to its director, is unknown.

Shamiya stated that at the beginning of its storming, the army separated the women from the men in the hospital courtyard, while allowing the women to leave towards Gaza City, forcing the men to take off their clothes, handcuffing some of them, and subjecting others to field investigation.

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

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

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

The Israeli incursion and bombing of various areas of the North Gaza Governorate continues.