Patients die from injuries as hospital forced to triage amid Israeli siege and denial of aid
No.
7595
Date
21 October, 2024
Original Social Media Post
"Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, describes the dire situation as one of the only three operating hospitals in northern Gaza under absolute siege. The hospital is overwhelmed and has implemented a priority system for treatment, with children waiting for ventilators as patients are triaged based on urgency.
الدكتور حسام أبو صافية، مدير مستشفى كمال عدوان، يصف الوضع المأساوي باعتباره أحد المستشفيات الثلاثة الوحيدة التي تعمل في شمال غزة تحت الحصار التام. المستشفى مكتظ وطبق نظام الأولوية في العلاج، حيث ينتظر الأطفال أجهزة التنفس بينما يتم فرز المرضى بناءً على خطورة حالاتهم.
Translation: @translating_falasteen"
- Source
Day 17 of Israel's third ground invasion of the North Gaza governorate.
As of midday, 640 people were killed in this Israeli onslaught.
The day started with raids on multiple schools notably in the Abu Rashid pond and Sheikh Zayed areas as the IDF carried continued actions taken two days prior: forcing displaced people to leave North Gaza, while shelling other schools with artillery. All those inside these schools were taken via Al-Awda Street and Jabalia Camp Street to the Al-Jurn area, reaching the west and south of Gaza City.
However, IDF tanks struck people despite complying with the displacement orders, murdering and injuring at least a dozen.
Amid the total siege, living conditions are deteriorating to increasingly dangerous levels day by day:
- Food has almost ran out, and water is not fit for consumption. Mothers mix starch and flour with water and sugar if available in the absence of milk
- As the army shoots anyone who moves, people shelter in the rubble and burn tent cloth and furniture instead of firewood.
Situation at Kamal Adwan hospital: as Israeli massacres continue escalating in North Gaza:
- hospital staff is exhausted
- No essential supplies left, including blood units, leading to victims being left to die slowly, in pain. The hospital also ran out of body bags used as shrouds for the martyrs
- Israel still denies aid and the transfer of patients and injured out of the hospital. (source)
- International organizations still idle
List of events harming civilians, infrastructure and living conditions:
Morning
- Before dawn, the IDF obstructed the mission of a WHO delegation and deied it permission to bring fuel to Kamal Adwan hospital and to transfer patients from there, despite previous coordination
- The army besieges UNRWA schools Al-Fawqa and Hafsa, in the middle of Jabalia camp, arrests the men, and prepares to deport the displaced to Salah Al-Din Street east of the camp
- Strike on a group of people around Al Yemen Assaeed hospital, killing 4 people
- Strike on a group of people filling water in Jabalia al-Balad; 6 people killed. The mortar shells also injured people being displaced using the same road, and were fired at an ambulance while evacuating casualties (Photos)
- Gate of Qalibo school in Sheikh Zayed blown up
- Strike on Al-Shawwa school in Beit Hanoun; 3 people killed
Midday
- After forcing people out of shelters in Sheikh Zayed, in a school oppositoe Abu Rashid pond, Israeli tanks struck them while they were being displaced Killing and injuring several people (Sources)1 2
- Footage surfaces from a massacre at the UNRWA Jabalia Boys Preparatory School in Abu Rashid pond area. 10 people were killed and 30 injured when Israeli tanks struck the school as IDPs were preparing to leave, in compliance with IDF forced displacement orders
Afternoon
Night
- Resumption of artillery shelling and detonations in Jabalia
- Three consecutive airstrikes in Jabalia moments before midnight