Kamel Adwan Hospital director shares video of Israeli explosives placed near hospital gates in northern Gaza
Israeli army forces have placed an explosives-laden box near the gate of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, a video showed on Monday.
The footage shared by the hospital's director Hussam Abu Safiya showed an Israeli vehicle deploying a wooden box bearing a hazardous symbol (a triangle with an exclamation mark) outside one of the hospital's gates.
“Israeli occupation vehicles, using robotic devices, are placing explosives boxes at the gates of the hospital,” Abu Safiya said in a Facebook post.
He added that Israeli forces had recently detonated residential buildings near the hospital using similar explosive devices.
Early on Monday, Abu Safiya warned that the medical facility was facing daily Israeli bombardment, which he said was part of a “deliberate campaign of killing and forced displacement.”
Israel has continued a large-scale ground operation in northern Gaza since Oct. 5 to allegedly prevent Palestinian resistance group Hamas from regrouping.
Palestinians, however, accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.
Since then, no sufficient humanitarian aid including food, medicine and fuel has been allowed into the area, leaving the remaining population on the verge of imminent famine.
The Israeli onslaught in northern Gaza was the latest episode in a brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 45,300 people, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023.
Last month, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on Gaza.
