The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) besieged the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, early Saturday morning, preventing anyone from entering or exiting the facility. Marwan Sultan, the hospital’s director, confirmed that the hospital is currently non-operational, with all individuals inside surrounded by IOF.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the Israeli artillery also bombed the upper floors of the hospital, which houses over 40 patients along with medical staff. The ministry reported a complete power outage at the hospital.
Eyewitnesses stated that a group of displaced people was targeted in front of the hospital’s entrance, with heavy gunfire directed at the building and its grounds, causing widespread fear among patients and staff.
The occupation forces have intensified their targeting of the health system in northern Gaza, also besieging and attacking the Kamal Adwan and Al Awda hospitals. Local media reported that Israeli tanks have even demolished part of the wall surrounding the Indonesian Hospital, while the hospital’s generator has stopped working due to the ongoing assault.
With the Indonesian Hospital now non-operational, the Kamal Adwan Hospital has become the only functional facility in northern Gaza, even as the area faces a worsening humanitarian crisis due to the siege and systematic destruction of the healthcare infrastructure.
❌💣🇵🇸🏥INDONESIAN HOSPITAL UNDER SEIGE🏥🇵🇸💣❌
⭕A distress call from the crews inside the Indonesian hospital after the vehicles arrived at the hospital gate
Heavy gunfire inside the hospital and the power was cut off and the crews were unable to operate the generator,… pic.twitter.com/LfQUFaEWn7
— Dr. Renee Levant (@ReneeLevant) October 19, 2024
The occupation also continues to commit massacres against civilians. Tonight, 33 martyrs, including 21 women, were killed, and more than 70 others were injured in the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing near the Nassar Junction in the Jabalia camp.
At least 33 Palestinians, most of whom are women, were killed and dozens injured overnight by the Israeli occupation in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/wIPCiAgVAO
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) October 19, 2024
Families who refused to be displaced were subjected to genocide, as warplanes bombed dozens of inhabited homes in the vicinity of the Nassar Junction in the Tal al-Zaatar neighborhood, north of the camp.
For the fifteenth consecutive day, the occupation forces continue their air, land and sea bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip, preventing food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, destroying homes and blowing up entire residential blocks.
On October 6, the occupation forces began imposing a tight siege on the northern Gaza Strip, which exacerbated the already dire humanitarian conditions, in light of the ongoing aggression since October 7, 2023.
The Indonesian hospital was subjected to a similar siege in November 2023, when the occupation forces targeted it with direct shelling, stormed it, killed and arrested a number of the wounded.
This comes as the occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 42,500 citizens, and the injury of 99,546 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.
Source: Agencies (edited and translated by Al-Manar English Website)
