Israel arrests 44 staffers at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces arrested 44 male staff members from the Kamal Adwan Hospital, leaving behind the hospital director, one male doctor and female staff to care for 200 patients, according to the World Health Organization.
"The situation in northern Gaza is catastrophic. Intensive military operations unfolding around and within healthcare facilities and a critical shortage of medical supplies, compounded by severely limited access, are depriving people of life saving care," the WHO said in a statement Saturday.
"The Health Ministry in Gaza informed us that the siege at Kamal Adwan Hospital has ended, but it came at a heavy cost," the WHO said. "Reports of the hospital facilities and medical supplies being damaged or destroyed during the siege are deplorable."