Gaza: Kamal-Adwan Hospital's director, medical staff arrested by Zionist occupation forces

GAZA (Occupied Palestine)- The director of Kamal-Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in the north of the city of Gaza, was arrested by the Zionist occupation Forces, who stormed the hospital, the Palestinian health authorities said Tuesday.

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The spokesperson of the ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a statement that the "occupation forces stormed into the Kamal-Adwan Hospital and arrested its director, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, and all the medical staff, including women."

Al-Qudra added that the Zionist forces interrogated the medical staff, "under threat, in the hospital's emergency department."

Earlier in the morning, the Palestinian ministry of Health in Gaza said the Zionist forces had stormed into the Kamal-Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, after besieging and bombing it for several days.

"We call on the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross to act immediately in order to save the life of the people hospitalized."

Over 18,000 Palestinians have been killed and some 50,000 others wounded since the beginning of the Zionist assault on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, according to the latest toll from the Palestinian authorities.

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