Hamas blasts world’s silence after Israel storms Gaza hospital, kills children inside

Gaza City, October 26 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have raided on Friday the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, and ordered patients and staff to go down to the main courtyard.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the international community and institutions bear political and moral responsibility for continuation of the Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The group made the remarks in a statement on Friday, saying the international society bore the responsibility due to its silence in the face of these crimes.  The silence also stood to lead to “the collapse of the global system of values and laws due to these extensive Zionist violations,” it added.

The remarks came after Israeli forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the city of Beit Lahia, the last operational hospital close to the besieged Jabalia area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military bombed the “oxygen station” at the hospital, killing a number of children.

The atrocity “is a war crime and a blatant violation of international laws,” Hamas added.

Dozens of those who were arrested were forced to remove their clothing before being gathered in an open area outside the hospital, Quds News Network, a Palestinian news agency reported, saying the fate of the arrestees is unknown.

Hamas said the raid against the facility came “just hours after imposing a siege on it” that was followed by arrests and abuse of patients, the wounded, medical staff, displaced families, and media activists, who were then taken to an unknown location.

The regime continues its genocide in northern Gaza, indifferent to its consequences, under the full support and protection provided by the US administration, the movement said.

It said what was unfolding in northern Gaza had featured massacres, focused criminal bombing of homes, and destruction of residential blocks on the heads of their inhabitants.

The group called on Muslim countries, including Arab nations, to take responsibility, go beyond statements of condemnation, and act to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing that was being inflicted on Palestinians.

The regime embarked on implementing a so-called “Generals’ Plan” in northern Gaza earlier in the month, deploying hundreds of military vehicles and thousands of forces with immense firepower towards its realization.

The plan seeks to tighten the regime’s siege against the areas, cut off humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside, and label those who remain there as combatants so it could target and kill them after declaring the areas "closed military zones.”   So far, the campaign has claimed the lives of hundreds of Palestinians.

On October 16, however, Hamas released a statement, asserting that the campaign was “doomed to failure,” and that it “will shatter against the rock of the firmness, will, and steadfastness of our patient people, and the valor and courage of our heroic resistance.”

Hamas says the Israeli regime’s so-called “Generals’ Plan” for northern Gaza, through which it seeks to starve the targeted area to advance its war goals, is “doomed to failure.”

The plan is part of a genocidal war that the regime launched against the Gaza Strip last October, during which it has killed more than 42,840 people so far.