Israeli army leaves north Gaza hospital, detains medics

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******** army leaves north Gaza hospital, detains medics

******** forces have withdrawn from a hospital in northern Gaza, one day after storming it, and the ************ enclave’s health ministry says the troops have detained dozens of male medical staff and some patients.

Health officials said on Friday ******** forces had stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities struggling to operate in the area, and also stationed forces outside it.

Footage circulated by the health ministry – which Reuters could not immediately verify – showed damage to several buildings after the ******** forces withdrew.

Medics said at least 44 of the facility’s 70-member health care team had been detained by the army.

It later said the army had released 14 of them, including the hospital’s director.

An ******** military spokesperson declined comment on the hospital report.

On Friday the ******** military said it operated in the area of the hospital based on intelligence “regarding the presence of terrorists and ********** infrastructure” there.

Medics said at least two children had ***** inside the intensive care unit after ******** ***** hit the generators and oxygen station in the facility on Friday.

Medical staff have refused ******** army orders to evacuate the hospital or leave their patients unattended.

Before the army raid, medics said at least 600 people had been in the hospital, including patients and their escorts.

“The safety and lives of patients who are left inside Kamal Adwan Hospital without medical staff and much needed medication are at risk now,” said Marwan Al-Hams of the health ministry.

Three nurses were injured during the raid and three ambulance vehicles were destroyed, the ministry said.

******** military strikes on the towns of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza have so far ******* around 800 people during a three-week offensive, the Gaza ministry added.

******* says its forces returned to northern Gaza to root out ****** fighters who regrouped there. The ******** military said on Friday that three of its soldiers were ******* in combat in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Senior ****** official Basem Naim said *******’s incursions in northern Gaza and storming Kamal Adwan Hospital were a violation of international humanitarian law that it could not have been committed without “the protection of Western countries”.

******* regularly accuses ****** of exploiting the civilian population and property, including hospitals and mosques, for military purposes.

****** denies the accusation.

The ******** military said on Saturday it had expanded the humanitarian-designated area of Al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip, where the army has in the past told Palestinians to go when forced to evacuate their homes.

Separately on Saturday, ******** forces ******* a ****** member during a raid in the city of Tulkarm, in the ********-occupied West Bank, the ******** security force said in a statement.

It said the man had been planning an imminent *******.

The ************ Health Ministry identified the ***** man as Islam Jamil Awda, 29.

In a statement, ****** said Awda had ***** “clashing with the occupation forces who besieged him for hours in a house in Tulkarm camp”.

********* has surged across the West Bank since the start of the ******-******* war in Gaza.

Hundreds of Palestinians – including armed fighters, stone-throwing youths and civilian bystanders – have been ******* in clashes with ******** forces.

Dozens of Israelis have also been ******* in ************ street attacks over the past year.

******-led fighters attacked ******* on October 7, 2023, ******** some 1200 people and taking about 250 hostages to Gaza, according to ******** tallies.

The ****** toll from *******’s retaliatory campaign in Gaza is approaching 43,000, with the densely populated enclave in ruins.

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