Adwan in a sentence

A Palestinian, evacuated from Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli forces raided the medical facility, walks with crutches, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, December 28, 2024.

Dr Iyad Rantisi, who was the director of Kamal Adwan hospital’s maternity department, died in November, six days after he was imprisoned by invading Israeli troops.

During the assault, Israeli occupation forces destroyed and burned most of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s sections after targeting it with shells, said Euro-Med Monitor.

Eid Sabbah, head of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan hospital, told the BBC that at about 07:00 on Friday, the military gave the administration 15 minutes to evacuate patients and staff into its courtyard.

Following the storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital, patients in critical condition were forced to move to the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, which weeks ago due to ongoing Israeli attacks.

Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, said the facility had received 12 bodies, including of a 15-year-old child, and 175 wounded.

Israel's military has accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of using Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya for military purposes and said "dozens of terrorists" have been hiding there.

Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit multiple times over the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in surrounding neighborhoods, according to staff.

Kamal Adwan was besieged and raided by Israeli forces a year ago.

Many displaced people were suffering from skin diseases, and children are afflicted by fevers, continuous weeping, and declining to eat or be breastfed, said Hussam Abu Safiyah, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

Many of the casualties are taken to Jabalia’s Kamal Adwan hospital.

Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia said that two people killed.

Speaking from the Gaza Strip at a Geneva press briefing, Peeperkorn said that at a checkpoint close to Kamal Adwan, the WHO team saw “thousands of women and children leaving that area, walking, limping with their few belongings” towards Gaza City.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), said an international medical team “was forced to self-evacuate” amid the deteriorating security situation at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The Director of Al-Awda Hospital slammed Israel’s targeting of ambulances of the medical facility along with those of Kamal Adwan Hospital and the civil defense units, which resulted in an acute shortage of life-saving vehicles.

The Israeli occupation forces escalated their attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours, with repeated strikes targeting Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli rights groups Physicians for Human Rights-Israel earlier this week petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice seeking a halt to military attacks on Kamal Adwan.

The military said on Thursday that 34 patients from Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals had been transferred to safe facilities in Gaza.

The World Health Organization said tonight that the occupation's aggression on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in northern Gaza out of service.

When he could no longer cook because his staff ran away for their lives, Mahmoud said he would deliver food, lentils, blankets, diapers and baby formula to Kamal Adwan Hospital.