Patients, doctors forced out from Kamal Adwan hospital are sheltering in Indonesia Hospital
\n JAKARTA
\nIsraeli forces have blocked food and water supply to the Indonesia Hospital in northern Gaza to force out the doctors who are refusing to leave their patients behind, the nongovernmental organization that funded it said on Sunday.
\nThe hospital in Beit Lahiya, a four-story building located near the Jabalia refugee camp, was built from donations organized by the Jakarta-based Medical Emergency Rescue Committee.
\nIt has been sheltering more than a dozen patients, caregivers and health workers from Gaza\u2019s Kamal Adwan hospital, which was destroyed in December after months of relentless Israeli attacks.
\nThe remaining doctors are defying orders to leave the Indonesia Hospital, MER-C said, adding that they last received food aid from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
\n\u201cThey are still holding out. The condition is deteriorating, there\u2019s a lack of water and food,\u201d Marissa Noriti, a MER-C volunteer in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, told Arab News via WhatsApp.
\n\u201cThe Israeli occupation forces are blocking supply \u2026 The doctors are staying for the patients. They refuse to leave them behind.\u201d
\nIndonesia Hospital is no longer in service after it was severely damaged by frequent Israeli attacks since October 2023. But the facility was still sheltering critically ill patients, despite not having electricity, water or supplies, according to UNOCHA.
\nThe hospital operated under limited capacity last year, but Israeli bombardments forced the patients and medical staff to transfer to the Al-Shifa hospital in southern Gaza last December, with only a few doctors staying behind.
\nOn Friday, as the hospital was surrounded by Israeli forces attacking the area, the doctors were ordered to leave the facility and the patients.
\n\u201cWe are monitoring the situation. Israel\u2019s occupation forces are cutting off all supplies to force them out; this is their strategy to empty north Gaza, to empty all the hospitals in the north so the people have no place to go to seek help,\u201d Sarbini Abdul Murad, chairman of MER-C\u2019s board of trustees in Jakarta, told Arab News.
\n\u201cWe ask that the international community act by any means to save Palestine from the crimes of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces).\u201d
\nIsrael has frequently targeted medical facilities in the Gaza Strip, saying that they are used by Palestinian armed groups. The attacks have pushed the enclave\u2019s healthcare system to the brink of collapse.
\nIsrael\u2019s war on Gaza has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and wounded over 108,000 since Oct. 7, 2023. The real death toll is believed to be much higher, with estimates published by medical journal The Lancet indicating that, as of July, it could be more than 186,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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