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Israeli occupation troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the Ministry of Health said today, Reuters reports.
The Indonesian Hospital is one of the Gaza Strip’s few still partially functioning hospitals, on its northern edge, an area that has been under intense Israeli military siege for nearly three months.
Munir Al-Bursh, director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said the Israeli occupation army had ordered hospital officials to evacuate it yesterday, before storming it in the early hours of this morning and forcing those inside to leave.
He said two other medical facilities in northern Gaza, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan Hospitals, were also subject to frequent assaults by Israeli troops operating in the area.
“Occupation forces have taken the three hospitals out of medical service because of the repeated attacks that undermined them and destroyed parts of them,” Al-Bursh said in a statement.
Officials at the three hospitals have so far refused orders by Israel to evacuate their facilities or leave patients unattended. Israeli occupation forces have previously forced medical teams out of hospitals, leaving premature babies unattended and left to die alone.
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said they resisted a new order by the army to evacuate hundreds of patients, their companions and staff, adding that the hospital has been under constant Israeli fire that damaged generators, oxygen pumps and parts of the building.
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