Biden-Harris regime-supported Israel attacks newborns in ventilators

More on the situation at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital

Sabbah, the hospital’s director of nursing, told Al Jazeera that several children, including newborns in incubators, are the “direct victims” of Israel’s attack on the facility.

“There are 125 patients in the hospital, including children and the wounded. The incubator had eight babies and the Intensive Care Unit has seven newborns and children who all need to be on a ventilator,” he told Al Jazeera.

But Israel’s attack damaged the upper floors, where the children’s ward was located, forcing staff to move the babies and children to the lower floors, which do not have the same equipment.

“So they [the babies and children] are direct victims of these attacks,” Sabbah said.

He noted that Israeli forces have detained dozens of the hospital’s staff, including surgeons, neurologists and paediatricians, during last week’s raid.

“The hospital is extremely understaffed as a result. There are four doctors and 50 volunteers, medical workers and nurses. They can’t cope with the huge influx of wounded people and there are no supplies,” he said.

“Israeli forces have destroyed warehouses and the pharmacy storing supplies and many of the facilities in the hospital have been destroyed.”