The administration of Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip appealed to the United Nations to intervene to extinguish a fire that has been raging since Thursday, in the medicine warehouse due to Israeli shelling.
The administration called on the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and relevant UN institutions to intervene immediately.
The hospital’s administration also called for urgent coordination with the Civil Defense in Gaza to return to the Al-Awda Hospital in the Tal al-Zaatar area of Jabalia camp.
According to the administration, the fire “is still burning in the hospital’s medicine warehouse,” warning that the fire’s continuation “threatens a health disaster and will impact the lives of patients and medical staff.”
On Thursday, the Al-Awda Hospital administration announced that the Israeli occupation forces had targeted the hospital’s medicine warehouse, sparking a fire at the site. As part of the deliberate targeting of the hospital, the Israeli occupation forces detonated a booby-trapped robot in its vicinity, causing extensive damage.
Al-Awda Hospital is a private medical institution that provides services in the Gaza Strip. It has two branches, one in the central Gaza Strip and the other in Jabalia Camp. Despite its limited resources due to the blockade and genocide, it continues to provide limited care to patients and the injured.
According to Al-Awda staff, the Israeli occupation army is besieging Al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, where approximately 130 – 160 individuals, including medical staff and wounded patients, are currently trapped.
A large fire has broken out in the hospital courtyard after occupation forces set fire to the tents erected there, simultaneously opening direct fire on the diesel fuel tank.
The third floor of the hospital was targeted by a tank shell yesterday and gunfire was directed at the water tanks on the hospital’s roof.
Since launching its war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has deliberately targeted Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare system, putting most of them out of service, endangering the lives of patients and the wounded.
The Gaza Strip has been suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian and relief crisis since the occupation authorities closed the crossings on March 2, preventing the entry of food, medicine, aid, and fuel.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has been committing genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 175,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
