(4 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 4 November 2024
1. Various of civil defence vehicles and ambulances in hospital yard of al-Aqsa Hospital sounding sirens in protest against situation in the northern Gaza Strip
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eyad Zaqout, senior health ministry official:
"We announce to the whole world that there are no longer any ambulances in the northern Gaza Strip governorate to carry out the duty of transporting the injured. A large number of injured people are bleeding on the roads and in the places of various targets in the northern Gaza Strip, and there are no civil defence or first aid crews to perform humanitarian duties and transport and provide the necessary medical assistance to them."
3. Various of Zaqout at briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eyad Zaqout, senior health ministry official:
"The occupation is intensively targeting hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip governorate. Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital were targeted, and casualties occurred among the patients sleeping inside Kamal Adwan Hospital as a result of the direct attack by the Israeli occupation."
5. Cutaway of breifing
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eyad Zaqout, senior ministry official:"
We call on the international community, and international health and humanitarian organisations, to urgently bring medical and surgical delegations into the hospitals of the northern Gaza Strip, to save what remains. We demand the protection of hospitals and medical personnel working in hospitals, and the protection of patients and injured people inside the hospitals and its departments."
7. Various of civil defence staff at briefing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beit Lahiya, Northern Gaza Strip – 4 November 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan hospital:
"We are talking about difficult days, especially yesterday, it was very difficult for Kamal Adwan Hospital. Yesterday, the hospital was directly targeted. The upper floors were targeted, and the hospital courtyard, water tanks, and the electricity network were targeted. Everything in the hospital was targeted. Unfortunately, the targeting was done during the presence of the World Health Organization which was evacuating some patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 4 November 2024
9. Various of ambulances in front of emergency department entrance at al-Aqsa Hospital
STORYLINE:
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said that there are no ambulances or emergency crews left operating in the far north of the enclave, areas where Israel has intensified its operations in recent weeks.
Israel launched a fresh offensive in northern Gaza in early October, focusing on Jabaliya, a crowded, decades-old urban refugee camp where it says Hamas had regrouped.
Other areas affected include Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahyia, situated just north of Gaza City.
Israel has repeatedly ordered evacuation orders for northern half of Gaza.
But some 400,000 have remained, even as Israel has encircled the area and obliterated entire neighbourhoods and critical infrastructure.
The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza – Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital – have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks.
Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the facility was "directly targeted."
Israel claims Hamas uses hospitals as “command and control bases” to plan attacks, to shelter fighters and to hide hostages.
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