The only operational hospital in besieged northern Gaza was hit by multiple Israeli attacks on Wednesday night, a medical official said on Thursday, as he reiterated his appeal to the international community to act to stop the bombardment.
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, is just one of two pediatricians who remain on the medical staff at the facility, which serves 100,000 people and where a constant flow of the wounded continues to arrive.
Abu Safiya has repeatedly described the dire conditions at the hospital in recent days following a weekslong Israeli siege of northern Gaza. On Thursday, he told CNN by phone that the bombing of the hospital’s third floor the night before had caused a fire that destroyed essential medical supplies provided by the World Health Organization just five days earlier.
CNN has asked the Israeli military for comment.
Aid entering Gaza has sunk to the lowest level since the war began last year, UN data shows – and the north of the enclave is particularly hard hit.
