The Palestine Mental Health Networks call out in anguish and outrage at the obliteration of the Kamal Adwan Hospital as part of the ongoing genocide. This space, meant to shelter and to heal, has been consumed by flames, its wards reduced to ashes by the calculated destruction of the Israeli military forces.

The Wreckage of Hope

The assault on the Kamal Adwan Hospital is not merely a tragedy--it is an atrocity. Patients, many of them children, were torn from their beds as fire and violence consumed the hospital. Dozens of staff, including its Director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, were taken by force. Their fate remains shrouded in uncertainty, as fear and despair grip their families and the shattered remnants of the hospital’s community.

These are not isolated incidents. Since October 2023, Gaza has become a graveyard for hope, a collective graveyard for Palestinians. Over 45,000 Palestinians have been killed. Nearly the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. The blockade tightens like a noose, and Gaza’s healthcare system—a basic human right—has been reduced to ruins. The World Health Organization’s stark words haunt us: Gaza’s health system is being systematically dismantled, a “death sentence for tens of thousands.”

A Cry from the Abyss

What remains when hospitals burn? When doctors are incarcerated, tortured, and silenced? When children gasp for air because oxygen tanks cannot cross blockades? This is not war. It is annihilation. It is the slow, deliberate suffocation of a people. It is genocide.

Every demolished hospital, every patient left to die in rubble, every child’s lifeless body pulled from the wreckage—these are not accidents. They are not “collateral damage.” These are crimes against humanity, calculated acts of genocide, carried out in full view of a world that watches in silence.

Where is justice? Where is humanity? What will it take to awaken the world from its indifference?

A Plea to the World

We can no longer accept impunity. We require:

Immediately Stop the Genocide: Overkilling in Gaza cannot continue. The blockade is a death sentence. Its continuation is a stain on the conscience of humanity.
Open Humanitarian Corridors: Let ambulances pass. Let medicine flow. Let Gaza breathe.
Protect Healthcare Facilities: Enforce the laws that bind us all as human beings. Protect what remains of Gaza’s hospitals and clinics.

Impunity that Kills

Neutrality in the face of genocide is complicity. Every moment of silence and failure to hold Israel accountable feeds the fire that consumes Gaza. Every moment of inaction allows another hospital to fall, another child to die, another family to be torn apart.

This is a cry from the ruins of the Kamal Adwan Hospital. This is the scream of Gaza’s mothers burying their children. This is the wail of doctors forced to turn away the dying. The world is watching. Will you act, or will you look away again?

Join the Struggle for Justice

Here’s how you can help:

Sign the Petition No Child A Target.
For US residents— please sign the Petition: “Not Another Hospital”.
Share this Article: Amplify Gaza’s cry by sharing it with your networks.
Demand Action: Protect Gazans NOW. Hold Israel accountable NOW. Contact your governmental representatives and demand that they protect Gaza’s people and its healthcare.
Call on world leaders to impose an arms embargo on Israel NOW.
Heed the call of Palestinian civil society for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement—abide by its guidelines and encourage your network to do the same.

We Can’t Wait Any Longer

Failing to respond to the ongoing catastrophe is not an option.

This is not just Gaza’s cry. It is humanity’s scream for justice. The destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital is an assault on every principle we hold dear. It is a call for all of us to rise, to speak, and to act.

Let this cry not fade into silence. Let it echo until justice is served.

Do not look away. Do not stay silent. Humanity must act.

ACT NOW.

THIS IS OUR MOMENT TO CREATE CHANGE AND TO STOP THE GENOCIDE.