The Palestinian authorities have demanded an investigation following stories of Israeli military crushing tents together with a number of displaced Gazans on the courtyard of Kamal Adwan hospital.
“Information and testimonies from citizens, medical crews, and media indicate that the occupation buried living civilians in the Kamal Adwan Hospital courtyard,” Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila stated Saturday.
“The world should take serious action to uncover the details of this file and not tolerate or remain silent about the information coming from the Gaza Strip,” stated al-Kaila as she urged a world inquiry into the stories.
Al-Kaila defined that “the Israeli occupation deliberately expelled the wounded from Kamal Adwan Hospital into the open air in extremely cold weather and attacked medical personnel, posing a serious threat to the lives of the wounded and patients.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry additionally demanded an “immediate international investigation into preliminary reports of the occupation committing heinous and horrifying crimes in the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital.”
Director-General of the Health Ministry within the Gaza Strip, Munir al-Bursh, advised Anadolu Agency (AA) that “the Israeli occupation committed a humanitarian catastrophe, turning Kamal Adwan Hospital into a military barracks and deliberately humiliating medical staff and the wounded.”
Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif wrote on X after visiting the hospital following the withdrawal of Israeli forces, that “what the Israeli occupation did inside Kamal Adwan Hospital is a heinous crime against the residents and medical staff.”
Earlier Saturday, Israeli forces bulldozed a number of tents of internally displaced Palestinians exterior the hospital, crushing individuals alive, reported Al Jazeera Arabic.
Video footage from the community confirmed mangled tents, which had been sheltering tons of of Gazans, and belongings following the incident.
U.Okay.-based Middle East Eye reported that the Euro-Med Monitor additionally known as for an impartial investigation into the incident.
According to the monitor, among the displaced Palestinians had been “buried and crushed alive” as per testimonies from medics in Gaza current on the scene who confirmed that Israeli forces buried and crushed Palestinians earlier than withdrawing.
Source: www.dailysabah.com