Manhattan Tribune obtained a painful testimony from paramedic Wafa Al-Bas, about the violations committed by the occupation army during its siege and storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip over the past days.
Albus said that the medical teams lost the lives of many injured people as a result of health complications and bleeding, as the medical team was unable to provide treatment as a result of the Israeli army’s siege of them and preventing them from moving.
The video scenes show the hospital departments, where patients, displaced persons, and medical staff lived extremely difficult days as a result of the siege and intense bombardment with shells and missiles.
The paramedic confirmed the death of a number of displaced and injured people as a result of hunger and the spread of diseases and epidemics, noting that Israeli army bulldozers destroyed the bodies of the victims in the hospital yard.
The medical teams were subjected to interrogation by the occupation soldiers, asking them “if there were Israeli detainees in the hospital.” The soldiers also released police dogs on the patients and medical teams.
Albus reported that the Israeli army arrested doctors and paramedics from Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Speaking about the tragic conditions in which they lived, she said that the medical teams could have saved the lives of many patients and provided treatment, but the occupation did not allow this.
She added that the army sat the displaced people in the hospital courtyard and asked them to take out “any weapons they had,” but there were no weapons, noting that the picture the army published of armed men in the hospital was false.
Over the days of siege and storming of the hospital, the displaced, patients, and medical staff suffered from a lack of water, food, medical materials, and electricity.
There are currently injured people in Kamal Adwan Hospital in a critical condition, who need to be transferred to intensive medical care, otherwise they may lose their lives, according to Albus.
The withdrawal of the occupation forces on Saturday from Kamal Adwan Hospital demonstrated the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe it caused.
