The Israeli army raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, which it hit with missiles in Beit Lahya, northern Gaza. The soldiers took 350 patients and staff out of the hospital, took some of them with their clothes removed and single-file to an unknown location, then set fire to the operating room, laboratory and emergency departments of the only partially functioning hospital in the north.
The Ministry of Health reported that the hospital’s operating and surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance, ambulance units and storage facilities were completely burned, and that the patients and wounded were taken to the Indonesian Hospital, which had no medical supplies, water, medicine, or even electricity or a generator, and that the hospital’s director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, was threatened with arrest.
The Israeli army confirmed the attack and raid on the hospital in a statement and claimed that the hospital was used by Hamas.