– You cannot imagine that. There is death everywhere. It smells like death everywhere. This is what Dr. Adnan Alhadlaq says in a telephone interview with news, while he is in the Indonesian hospital. Dr. Adnan Alhadlaq at al-Shifa Hospital. At least twelve people will be killed after an attack on the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip, reports the news agency AFP and Reuters. Tala comes from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Dr. Adnan Alhadlaq is a physician and surgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. After the hospital was evacuated, he traveled further north to continue his work at the Indonesian hospital. Doctors at the Indonesian hospital use flashlights to perform medical interventions on wounds in Gaza. Photo: Reuters – Last night after I finished my operations, I went to my room to take a nap, says Alhadlaq to news. At 02.30 a bomb hit and the IDF started shooting at them, says Alhadlaq. – The walls are destroyed and they are collapsing. The 12 killed are patients and homeless. The hospital is said to have been hit by Israeli attacks during the night without warning, other employees told the news agency Al Jazeera. The Israeli military has not confirmed the attack. Mothers mourn their children outside the Indonesian hospital in Gaza. Photo: Reuters There are around 700 people, both employees and wounded, at the hospital right now, reports Reuters. Al Jazeera reports that there will be a total of 6,000 people in and around the hospital. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, tells Al Jazeera that the employees insist on not leaving the hospital to treat the wounded: – We fear that Israeli forces will repeat what they did at al-Shifa hospital. The situation is dire, says al-Qudra. Dr. Adnan Alhadlaq also thinks so. – The same will happen now. They want to hit the hospital, and I don’t know why. At the al-Shifa hospital, Israeli soldiers entered the hospital, as they claimed Hamas soldiers were hiding there and using the hospital as a command centre. According to Reuters, the Israeli military surrounded the Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip early Monday morning. – We cannot go into the outer rooms nor approach the windows. We see them, and they shoot directly at us, says Alhadlaq to news: – We are waiting to die. We don’t know what to do. IDF claims the hospital is used by Hamas Daniel Hagar, spokesman for the Israeli military (IDF), has previously said that Hamas systematically uses hospitals as part of their terrorist operation. The Israeli army says they have found a 55 meter long tunnel under the al-Shifa hospital. – Hamas built the Indonesian hospital to hide the underground infrastructure, Hagar said at the time. Then he aimed for the tunnels under the ground, where Hamas is supposed to stay. – The Indonesian hospital in Gaza was built by the Indonesian people with a humanitarian purpose and to meet the medical needs of the Palestinian people, replied the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip has been hit by Israeli airstrikes. The picture is from earlier in November. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters The power is switched off At the same time that there is to be an ongoing operation around the hospital, the hospital’s power supply must be switched off. The coverage should also mostly be down. Dr. Sarbini Abdul Murad, the head of the charity that built the hospital (MER-C), has called on Israel to withdraw forces around the hospital. That’s what Murad says to Al Jazeera. Palestinians receive help at the Indonesian hospital after Israeli airstrikes. Photo: Reuters – This is an inhumane attempt that should be condemned because this is a place that should be protected, said in the early hours of Monday. The hospital is located in Beit Lahia, which is in the north of the Gaza Strip and is partly financed by the Indonesian organization Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C).
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