Israeli military vehicles targeted Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza igniting a fire in its intensive care unit (ICU), according to the hospital’s Director, Hussam Abu Safiya.
Abu Safiya said: “We were surprised by the entry of vehicles and bulldozers into the vicinity of the hospital, which was preceded by a terrifying targeting of citizens’ homes in the vicinity. We heard gunfire and shells without being able to do anything.”
In a video recorded outside the smoke-filled ICU, he detailed the attack: “Sudden and crazy gunfire was fired at the hospital with all kinds of weapons, and the occupation deliberately targeted the intensive care unit by firing at it clearly.”
Abu Safiya revealed that patients on ventilators were evacuated just moments before the fire caused by Israel engulfed the ICU. “We miraculously evacuated the patients who were on ventilators from the intensive care unit and the fire broke out inside it,” he said, noting that it is “the only department in the northern Gaza Strip.”