UN vehicles at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 28, 2024 [AFP]

Gaza City, October 30 (RHC)-- Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, addressed the dire situation of continuing Israeli military attacks on his medical facility, which has also previously come under attack by Israel’s military.

“The Kamdal Adwan Hospital and the entire vicinity is a warzone.  The hospital is left with no resources.  No medical supplies and no medical staff,” Dr Abu Safia told Al Jazeera.

“This is because many of our specialised doctors and surgeons have been detained. It is only me together with a single paediatrician – who cannot perform any surgery to the wounded – that are left inside the hospital.  Above all, patients and the injured are strewn all over the hospital floor,” Dr Abu Safia said.

“We appeal to the entire world to have a safe humanitarian passage opened immediately, and without any delay.  We need specialised medical staff in all major disciplines to be allowed in,” he said.

“I received a wounded child who is in dire need of abdominal surgery, to stop his internal bleeding before he loses his life.  Many children have their bones sticking out of their bodies, requiring urgent orthopaedic surgeries.  Many are suffering from brain injuries and require delicate procedures,” he added.