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STORY: :: The director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalia pleads for help to save lives in the northern Gaza Strip

:: October 22, 2024

:: Jabalia, Gaza

:: Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan hospital

:: “The situation means we are under what can be called a real genocide taking place against our people in northern Gaza Strip. The health situation has completely collapsed. The world must act immediately to secure a safe humanitarian corridor to provide blood, supplies, medicines, equipment, and medical staff, or the wounded will die in the coming few hours. Therefore, the world must understand what is happening now in northern Gaza Strip - genocide, deliberate killing, anyone who moves in the street is shot at. It's clear that we are witnessing a real massacre against those present.”

:: “Of course, the medical staff numbers are very low, and the volume of injuries is not at all proportional to the space available. Therefore, we had to implement the difficult triage system for cases - we had to leave some to die and some to live. Therefore, our capabilities are very limited, and so the situation is catastrophic, my dear brother. The world must come now, with pictures and words and images, to see what is happening in northern Gaza Strip - a real genocide against everyone who moves in northern Gaza Strip."

 The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency called on Tuesday for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials said they were running out of supplies to treat patients hurt in a three-week-old Israeli offensive.

Health officials said on Tuesday that more than 20 people had been killed by Israeli forces.

Palestinian health officials and the civil emergency service said dozens of bodies of people killed by Israeli fire were scattered on roads and under rubble. Rescue teams could not reach them because of ongoing strikes, they said.

The Israeli military, which launched an offensive against Hamas militants holding out in Jabalia this month, says it is evacuating people along designated routes and has filtered out dozens of militants from civilians going south.