Wednesday, 9 October 2024 — Drop Site

“As long as there are patients, I won’t leave,” Dr. Hossam Abu Safia tells Drop Site News from Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Story by Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Abubaker Abed

The director of the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza is refusing Israeli orders to shut the hospital down and evacuate. “As long as there are patients, I won’t leave,” Dr. Hossam Abu Safia told Drop Site News. “I’ve been here since the genocide started, and I am determined to continue helping my people.”

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Wednesday, 9 October 2024 — CounterCurrents

by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

Palestinian Territory – An unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe is imminent as the Israeli occupation tightens its siege on the Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip for the fourth consecutive day. Israel is accelerating the pace of its genocide against the Palestinians there by carrying out mass and planned killings, as well as widespread forced displacements. The international community, led by the United Nations, must act swiftly and decisively to save 10s of thousands of residents who are being subjected to one of the most violent campaigns of genocide the Strip has ever witnessed.

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