An Israeli quadcopter dropped an explosive on Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Friday afternoon, wounding staff who were inside the building. Gaza's health ministry condemned the strike and put the number of injured at two, noting that both were in the so-called green zone, the area the Israeli military itself designates as permitted. Quds News Network reported three wounded, all from the hospital's guards department, hit while they were eating lunch. Al Jazeera Mubasher published footage showing three injured men.
Kamal Adwan is the hospital Israeli forces raided in December 2024, describing it as a Hamas command centre, without any evidence. Its director, the paediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya, has been held without trial since. On Tuesday, four days before a bomb was dropped on his staff, independent UN experts including Francesca Albanesedemanded his release and said the war has turned the practice of medicine into a crime. The regime has not responded to that demand, and it has not commented on Friday's strike, as it has not commented on the aid worker killed in Tel al-Hawa on Tuesday, or the World Central Kitchen driver killed on Wednesday, or the six killed across the Strip on Thursday.
The so-called ceasefire has apparently been in effect since 10 October 2025. Under it, Israeli forces have killed at least1,092 Palestinians and wounded more than 3,507, expanded their control from roughly half of Gaza to nearly 70 per cent of it, and continued to restrict the medical supplies on which the surviving hospitals depend. Gaza's laboratories and blood banks are days from shutdown for want of reagents. Nine thousand three hundred cases of chickenpox were recorded across 130 health facilities in a fortnight. This is the arrangement that English-language coverage still calls a ceasefire without the quotation marks, and it is the arrangement under which the genocide has continued at a slower tempo, killing a thousand people in nine months rather than tens of thousands in two years, which is a difference of rate and not of kind.
Nothing about Friday required a decision at any height of command. A drone operator dropped a munition on three men having lunch in a green zone, at a hospital whose director is in illegal captivity, four days after the United Nations said aloud that this is what happens to doctors in Gaza. There will be no inquiry, because there has been no acknowledgement, because there has been no question put by anyone the regime is obliged to answer.
