World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has demanded the “immediate release” of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director, expressing concern over the Israeli raid that shut down the hospital and forced the displacement of patients and medical staff there.
According to Al Jazeera, the WHO director general said critical patients from Kamal Adwan were “moved to the Indonesian Hospital, which is itself out of function”.
He said his organisation and partners have delivered food, water and basic medical supplies to the Indonesian Hospital and transferred 10 critical patients to the nearby al-Shifa Hospital. But Israeli forces detained four patients during the transfer, he noted.
“We urge Israel to ensure their health care needs and rights are upheld,” Tedros said.
Tedros also noted that two more hospitals in Gaza City, al-Ahli Hospital and al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital, have come under attack on Sunday, and that “both are damaged”. The WHO chief said hospitals in Gaza “have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat”.
