An Israeli strike killed a security guard and wounded 10 patients in a field hospital in the south of Gaza Tuesday, according to the director of the medical structure.
The fatal attack for the land of Khan Youunis’ Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital came two days after an Israeli strike hit one of the latest working medical centers of the Encyclist: the complex of the Arabic hospital Ahli in Gaza City. The strikes highlighted the precarious state of the health sector of Gaza, which was decimated by the war.
The Army of Israel – who said that the strike on the Arab hospital in Ahli targeted a Hamas command center, without providing tests – he said he was examining reports on an attack on the hospital in the Kuwait specialty field.
Dr. Suhaib al-Hamss, director of the field hospital, said the guard was killed to protect the entrance to the structure. Four of the wounded suffered serious injuries, he added, noting that the attack hit the edge of the hospital’s land.
“It was a powerful strike,” said Dr. Al-Hamss, 37, in a telephone interview. “Everything fell.”
Others in the hospital said that the strike pushed patients to flee from the hospital.
“It was a terrifying moment,” said Mohammed Abu Ghali, coordinator of the field for Heal Palestine, an American non -governmental organization that finances the hospital on the field.
The military offensive of Israel caused immense damage to hospitals and the health system in the enclave. The World Health Organization reported last month that 33 of the 36 hospitals in Gaza had been damaged and that only 21 remained partially functional. On Saturday he warned that the hospitals of Gaza face a lack of impending medicine because Israel blocked help for six weeks.
Israeli officials say that the medical centers have been targeted because Hamas fighters have incorporated inside and under the structures and that it is the only way to eradicate the armed group. Hamas and medical operators denied this accusation.
The tests examined by the New York Times suggest that Hamas used the Al Shifa hospital in the city of Gaza – that the Israeli military raided – to cover and accumulate weapons inside. The Israeli army has not presented equally expansive evidence on most of the other health centers that attacked.
Dr. Al-Hamss said that the position of the Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital was known to the Israeli authorities as it had been shared through the intermediaries before the attack. He added that the staff was checked and that the Hamas government offices were not hosted at the medical structure.
“We are not doing nothing but medicine,” he said.
The Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital was treating a minimum of 3,500 patients every day, according to Dr. Al-Hamss.
“The hospital,” he said, “is providing a solution to people in the light of the collapse of the mooring sector in Gaza.”
From the collapse of a month of a ceased the fire between Israel and Hamas, the military of Israel have embarked on a large bombing campaign and seized the territory in Gaza. Israeli officials have said that the offensive is an attempt to force Hamas to release multiple hostages held in the enclave.
More than 1,600 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceased the fire went to pieces-the over 51,000 killed since the beginning of the war, according to the data of the Ministry of Health of Gaza. The Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in its counts of victims.
The doctors of the hospitals of Gaza have said that many of the injured and killed in recent weeks have been children. On April 3, more than a dozen children were seen in the emergency room of the Arabian hospital in Ahli following Israeli shots in a nearby school, transformers. The Israeli-Ci army also accused Hamas of incorporating in schools-in followed that those strikes were targeted by those strikes known in a Hamas command center, without appointing them.
Patrick Kingsley Relationships contributed to this article.