Israel burns down Kamal Adwan Hospital
Israel and Palestine are in a heated conflict that has caused the death of many health workers
Ambassador of The state of Palestine Dr Tamer Almassri condemns the Israeli occupation's ongoing brutal, recurring criminal acts and systematic attacks by burning the Gaza’s health infrastructure, including the recent targeting of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, arresting, stripping naked and torturing of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya along with 350 hospital staff and patients. The brutal attacks killed at least five healthcare workers at the facility and destruction of ambulances.
The state of Palestine demands for the immediate release of the detained doctors and other health workers detained in Israeli prisons. This brutal act, violates the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, constitutes a blatant assault on human rights and an unjustified attack on medical institutions providing essential humanitarian services to civilians. Targeting hospitals and other locations protected under international humanitarian law constitutes a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
The Israeli occupation’s persistence in its crimes is largely due to the silence of the international community regarding the ethnic cleansing and massacres taking place therefore the international community must assume its legal and moral responsibilities, and to oblige the occupying state to immediately stop its ongoing aggression against Gaza, its ongoing violations of international law and international humanitarian law, stop its crimes against our people, and hold those responsible accountable.
Over the past year, Israeli forces have detained more than 600 health workers from various specialties, and approximately 1,060 health workers have been killed, some while being tortured in custody. Hundreds more have been injured, representing a significant loss of skilled personnel and expertise, and a blow to the health system as a whole.
The state of Palestine call on the international community and the UN Security Council to take decisive steps to end these violations, which not only constitutes serious and blatant violations of international law and international humanitarian law, but also poses a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.
