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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Abu Safiya denies allegations on medical aid entry to Kamal Adwan Hospital</h1>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya,
denied allegations circulated in international media, about the delivery
of medical aid to the hospital, stressing that it is still under
Israeli siege.</p>
<p>Abu Safiya said in press statements on Monday, “After four-weeks-long
waiting for allowing the World Health Organization to enter food,
medicine and specialized medical delegations to the hospital, Israeli
occupation forces (IOF) emptied the ambulances loaded with food in the
street and forced the medical delegation to return back.”</p>
<p>He added that the IOF allowed the entry of only seven out of 40 boxes of medical supplies.</p>
<p>Abu Safiya stressed that the hospital loses numbers of the wounded
every day as they die of their wounds due to the lack of surgical
specialties, noting that cases of malnutrition from children flock to
the hospital with “four of them with critical health conditions. We
started monitoring a number of adults suffering from malnutrition,” he
said.</p>
<p>The director of Kamal Adwan stressed that the hospital is still
providing medical service at the minimum capacity, saying “We have only
pediatricians to perform surgeries despite being not specialized in
general surgeries, just to save the lives of the injured.”</p>
<p>“We receive daily distress calls, but we cannot help them. There is
no single ambulance or civil defense crew operating in northern Gaza,
which is subject to Israeli siege, where people are denied access to
water, food, and medicine. No new surgeons are allowed to enter the
hospital after the arrest of the surgical teams,” he added.</p>
<p>The situation was deteriorated in the Kamal Adwan Hospital after the
IOF bombed its upper floors, and arrested most of its medical cadres
late month, with only two doctors remaining inside the hospital with a
few nursing staff.</p>
<p>Doctor Abu Safiya revealed that the hospital received on Sunday a
distress call from women and children under the rubble who probably died
as the medical teams could not help them.</p>
<p>For the 45th day, northern Gaza has been under an Israeli tight
siege, starvation and enforced displacement amid violent air and
artillery shelling, and a complete isolation of the northern province
from Gaza, in an operation described by international and UN
organizations as a crime that amounts to the crime of ethnic cleansing.</p>
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