| Al-Awda Hospital | |
|---|---|
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| Geography | |
| Location | Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Gaza Governorate, Palestinian territories |
| Coordinates | 31°31′47.47″N 34°28′47.2″E / 31.5298528°N 34.479778°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Emergency room, maternity ward |
| Type | Treatment |
| History | |
| Opened | 1997 |
| Closed | 2024 (part of Israel-Hamas War)[1] |
Al-Awda Hospital is a hospital in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The hospital provides basic medical care, with an emergency room and obstetric services for women in the northern Gaza Strip.
The hospital has the largest delivery room in the district and is the only one that provides fluoroscopy services. It runs training programs for nursing students in cooperation with universities in the Gaza Strip.
In October 2024, during the Israel-Hamas War, Israeli warplanes bombed the hospital at least three times; Israeli tanks also besieged the facility twice, once in December 2023 and again in October 2024, with the latter siege trapping 163 people in the hospital and drawing ire from Relief International and the World Health Organization.[2][3]
Israel has killed Doctors Without Borders staff at the facility.[4]
- ^ "Gaza's last working hospitals face shutdown due to lack of fuel and medical supplies". The National. 24 May 2024.
- ^ Redmond, Craig. "An urgent call to save the staff and patients of Gaza's al-Awda Hospital". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
- ^ "Northern Gaza: Al-Awda hospital, one of the area's last functioning health facilities, may be forced to cease operations - Relief International". www.ri.org. 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
- ^ "Gaza: MSF doctors killed in strike on Al-Awda Hospital | Doctors Without Borders - USA". www.doctorswithoutborders.org. Retrieved 2024-12-04.