🇸🇩 GAZA - Bulldozers crush Gazans sheltering outside Kamal Adwan Hospital

Earlier, the health ministry in Gaza said that Israeli troops had expelled hundreds of people taking refuge inside the hospital, and ordered the wounded patients and medical staff to relocate to the hospital grounds.

A UN-OCHA report from Saturday noted that the hospital was reportedly hosting approximately 3,000 IDPs, in addition to patients and medical staff. IDF reportedly detained 1,000-1,200 Palestinians, mostly men and boys aged between 16 and 65 years old, including medical staff, patients and displaced persons.

Several media outlets, including TRT World and Al Jazeera, reported that Isra­eli had “buried alive” dozens of displaced, sick, and wounded people in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, citing doctors and other eyewitnesses.

Multiple videos shared on social media also appear to show people crushed under the rubble in front of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, with animals gnawing on the limbs of the dead.

Palestinian Authority’s Health Minister Mai al-Kaila has urged an immediate investigation.

“The world must take serious action to uncover the details of this case, and not take lightly or remain silent about the information coming from the Gaza Strip,” a press release by the ministry added.

The hospital had been targeted by Israeli raids last week, prompting World Health Organi­sation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to say he was “extremely worried” about the situation at the hospital.

Although the Israeli military claimed the hospital was being used as a Hamas “command and control centre” and that soldiers had detained around 80 fighters, Reuters reported that some 70 medical staff were picked up from the hospital earlier in the week.

‘Deliberately targeted’

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