Bibi Torches Last Major Functioning Hospital in Northern Gaza, Arrests Staff, Dumps Patients

Dec. 29—The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is now shut, much of it demolished and burned by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), after repeated raids in recent months. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the facility is “destroyed and nonfunctional.” The WHO issued a report on the atrocity yesterday morning.

Today, the IDF declared that they have detained hospital director Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, under suspicion “of being a Hamas terrorist operative.” His whereabouts is unknown. Other staff have been arrested.

Dr. Abu Safiya posted an alarm on social media yesterday, during the time the hospital was under assault. Since then, as reported by various sources, staff and patients were ordered to go outside and strip down. Anyone refusing to strip was beaten, Cable News Network (CNN) today quotes several patients and staff, among them Abdulrahman Rayan, who said, “There was no limit to the beating. They struck people on the head with hoses. They dragged three people at a time, including an injured person with a cast, and beat them on their heads. They spared no one—not the injured, not the elderly, not the children.”

Many patients were dumped out to walk, with no destination. The WHO statement said that they will conduct a mission to the Indonesian Hospital Dec. 29 to assess the situation.

Many thousands are at risk of health crises in the winter cold, with only tents for shelter, and no fuel. Four babies died of the cold this week, by official count, but more deaths and suffering go unreported.

Meanwhile, well-placed sources in both Israel and Washington say that continued IDF operations in Gaza ordered by the Butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, have no military objectives, and little or nothing to do with alleged Hamas targets. The special units of the IDF carrying out these attacks, with murderous results, are under the command of commanders who are loyal to the Prime Minister, these sources say. Unreported in the media, several IDF line officers have asked to be removed from command in Gaza, saying that they no longer believe that there is any purpose to the continued military operations, which slaughter civilians, while killing and capturing only a handful of Hamas, and as such, are now only making martyrs out of Hamas.

“The leadership of the IDF has said that Hamas has been defeated, that they can never again threaten Israel the way it did with its Oct. 7 [2023] attack,” said a source. “They have called for a ceasefire and hostage release deal that would end the war. Nor does the IDF command accept Netanyahu’s plan to leave it in charge of Gaza. They do not want that mission and have demanded that Bibi specify a plan to turn Gaza over to a civilian authority, without a permanent IDF presence. Meanwhile, Bibi continues to sabotage the latest ceasefire/hostage release negotiations, and has no plan for the so-called “day after” hostilities’ end. That is because everything Bibi says about what he has been doing and what he wants to do, is a lie. His plan is to make Gaza a Hell on Earth—an uninhabitable charnel house that could never become the anchor of a Palestinian state. That is his ‘military’ target—a Palestinian state.”

“Those who say Bibi continues to fight a phantom and has destroyed Hamas in Gaza so that he can hold on to power, and delay elections, only have it partially right,” said another source. “It is absolutely true he doesn’t give a damn about the hostages and never has. Better to have Hamas kill them all, so he can fuel rage in the Israeli population to keep his wars going. But what remains of the Hamas leadership, an organization that he funded and helped create in Gaza precisely because it did not support a Palestinian state, is now not playing along with him. They have made substantial concessions for a ceasefire talks, and they are keeping the remaining hostages alive. The biggest threats to the hostages are Bibi and his special IDF units, who are being asked to act in Gaza like the Waffen SS did in Nazi-occupied Europe.”

Bibi’s negotiators for the ceasefire/hostage deal returned to Israel late last week to brief the cabinet on where the negotiations stand. An American source familiar with the negotiations reported that Bibi has once again thrown roadblocks into the process. “If there was anyone else who was Prime Minister of Israel, other than Bibi or his lunatic coalition members, [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir or [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich, there would have been a deal already. But Netanyahu just keeps delaying things, in order to slaughter more Palestinians.

“The problem is that this messianic lunatic believes that he is the savior of the Jewish state and will listen to no one,” the source continued. “If there was more than a suit of clothes without a brain or senses who was President [of the United States], maybe something could be done. Or better said—it could have been done a long time ago. Now, we will have to see if [President elect Donald] Trump can do anything. He has surrounded himself on policy matters with pro-Bibi fruitcakes and worse. But Netanyahu is miscalculating if he thinks Trump wants a wider war with Iran, or a continuation of the slaughter in Gaza. Many insiders think that in the end, it may be Trump who winds up pushing Bibi out, where others have failed. He is reportedly furious with Netanyahu for complicating policy matters with Saudi Arabia, which Trump sees as the anchor of a broader American policy interest.”