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The well being ministry stated that the detainees had been stripped and interrogated, calling the situations “inhumane.”

The Israeli army didn’t instantly touch upon the accounts of the affiliation and the well being ministry. Israel has prior to now defended the mass detention of males in northern Gaza, saying it wanted to strip them to examine for explosives and to interrogate them to find out if any had been linked to Hamas.

The ministry added that it was fearful Israeli forces would repeat the scenes that passed off at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the place Israeli forces destroyed a part of its constructing and interrogated employees members for per week, based on the well being ministry and two folks on the scene.

The Israeli army defended its actions at Kamal Adwan, saying the hospital was being utilized by Hamas as a command and management heart and asserting that it had detained about 80 fighters. Gazan well being officers stated that a number of the hospital’s employees, together with its director, had been among the many detained.

Hamas and medical employees at different Gaza hospitals have denied Israeli allegations that hospitals have been utilized by the armed Palestinian group. The Israelis say they’ve uncovered tunnels and weapons, together with on the territory’s largest hospital complicated, Al-Shifa, that it considers proof of its allegations.

The well being ministry stated on Monday that no extra hospitals had been operational within the northern strip after each Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda went out of service following Israeli raids. Each hospitals had severely restricted their operations over the previous few weeks due to close by floor preventing and a extreme lack of gasoline and provides.

In response to well being officers in Gaza, greater than 90 medical employees have been detained since Israel started its bombardment and floor invasion of Gaza, together with the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya. The well being ministry stated on Monday that Dr. Salmiya remained in detention and was being interrogated in “hunger and excessive chilly.”

A volunteer at Kamal Adwan Hospital, Osama Al-Absi, stated in an interview on Sunday that he was amongst these detained and later launched by Israeli forces. He stated the detainees had been taken to an Israeli army base in Gaza, stripped, and left in a ditch for hours. “Most of us had been crushed and insulted,” he stated.

Al-Awda Hospital, within the northern neighborhood of Jabaliya, had been surrounded by Israeli troopers and tanks for practically two weeks as floor preventing raged close by, based on the affiliation that runs it.

It added that 43 sufferers and 96 employees members had been “trapped contained in the hospital” for no less than a few of final week, and stated that the hospital had been hit by Israeli gunfire and artillery over the past two months.

The few hospitals that stay operational within the south have additionally been hit in latest days.

The Nasser Medical Complicated in southern Gaza’s largest metropolis, Khan Younis, was hit by an unexploded Israeli artillery shell on Sunday, with shrapnel and particles killing a 13-year-old and wounding three others, based on the well being ministry. The kid, Dunia Abu Muhsen, had misplaced her leg in a strike on her dwelling that killed her father, mom and two of her brothers a number of weeks in the past and was receiving remedy on the hospital when she was killed, the ministry stated.

The Israeli army didn’t instantly touch upon the outline of what occurred.

Ameera Harouda contributed reporting from Doha, Qatar.