Four doctors were killed at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza

Gaza December 06, 2024(QJ) – Four doctors were killed at Kamal Adwan Hospital in besieged northern Gaza on Friday, after Israeli forces stormed the compound, killing and injuring dozens of people in surrounding areas, eyewitnesses told reporters.

Israeli troops also forced healthcare workers and patients to leave the facility and destroyed critical medical supplies, according to a statement by Dr. Hussam Abu Saifya, the hospital director.

In the early hours of Friday, the Israeli military sent two plain-clothed messengers into the hospital, who told people over a megaphone to evacuate, the director added. The military detained a “large number” of young men in the two-hour raid, including health workers and Palestinians who had sought refuge.

Israeli quadcopters unleashed a blaze of “intense and direct fire” as military vehicles encircled the facility, Abu Saifya recalled, before corralling patients, displaced people, and health workers in the courtyard and forcibly taking them to a checkpoint further south, towards Gaza City.

Hours later, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdrew from one of the last remaining functioning facilities in northern Gaza. Hospital staffers and patients left the facility to find hundreds of bodies and wounded people lining surrounding streets.

At least 1,050 health workers have been killed since Israel launched its war in Gaza after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, according to the Ministry of Health in Ramallah. The Israeli military launched a renewed incursion on three cities in northern Gaza on October 5, saying it is targeting Hamas’ renewed presence in the area.