Israeli tanks shelled the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Thursday as patients are dying inside due to shortages caused by a 20-day Israeli siege.
According to Al Jazeera, the hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, said the Israeli shelling caused “severe damage” to the Intensive Care Unit. Hours before the shelling, he warned the hospital would turn into a “mass grave” and that one patient was dying every hour because of the Israeli siege.
“There is a very large number of wounded people, and we lose at least one person every hour because of the lack of medical supplies and medical staff. Our ambulances can’t transfer wounded people. Those who can arrive by themselves to the hospital receive care. But those who don’t just die in the streets,” Abu Safia said.
Also on Thursday, the Palestinian Civil Defense agency said its rescuers were forced to suspend operations in northern Gaza. “Our work has completely stopped in the northern governorate and the situation has become catastrophic there, and the citizens there are now without humanitarian services,” the agency said.
Footage from the Kamal Adwan Hospital shows staff caring for a newborn baby in the neonatal unit. Abu Safia also told The Associated Press that “some medical staff members have been either killed, arrested, or injured.”
Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an orthopedic surgeon for Doctors Without Borders who is at Kamal Adwan, said on Wednesday that there were 30 people dead inside the hospital and around 130 injured patients.
“There is death in all types and forms in Kamal Adwan Hospital and north Gaza. The bombardment does not stop. The artillery does not stop. The planes do not stop. There is heavy shelling, and the hospital is targeted, too. It just looks like a movie; it does not seem real,” Obeid said.
Kamal Adwan is one of three hospitals in northern Gaza that is still somewhat functioning, and it’s the only one with a specialized neonatal unit for newborns. The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of all three hospitals at the beginning of the month as it started an ethnic cleansing campaign in the north, but the staff refused to abandon their patients.
Israel usually justifies its attacks on Gaza hospitals by claiming Hamas members are present but never offers evidence for its claims. Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza recently said in an open letter to President Biden that none of them ever saw militant activity where they worked.
“The 99 signatories to this letter spent a combined 254 weeks inside Gaza’s largest hospitals and clinics. We wish to be absolutely clear: not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other healthcare facilities,” the healthcare workers said.
Israel is teaching the world how to break the rules.
Rules? Humanity is facing something worse than rule-breaking. The return to barbarian warfare where civilians are fair game. Where chikdren are killed to insure no offspring. Where starvation is normalized. Denying water. Offering human sacrrifices to vengeful Gods? Now going through rubble carefully to catch anything still living. Zoo animals, roaming confused children and pets. The veritable orgy of evil. Evil utterly normalized. .
There’s never been any other kind of war.
I disagree. While war crimes have almost certainly occurred in every conflict, I believe that in this one, they are an intrinsic part of the Zionists’ modus operandi and as a result, are ubiquitous. I believe the variety and scale of war crimes committed here is unprecedented.
You can believe anything you like.
The scale isn’t even close to unprecedented, simply because of the fairly small size of the forces and populations involved. It doesn’t even really rival Operation Keelhaul, let alone the “Final Solution.”
As for variety, people have been coming up with novel ways to kill and torture each other for millennia, and I’m not seeing anything new here.
Genghis Khan or the Romans or probably numerous other examples would disagree.
This is old school war where the strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.
Amerindian tribes would starve or freeze in winter as a result of colonial or other Amerindian actions.
This is war outside the ius gentium, outside civilisation.
Not true. There are implicit statements of intent to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing. This is not a war.
Your last two sentences say opposite / mutually exclusive things.
No, they don’t.
Do you consider the murder of Jews in Nazi Germany a war?
Absolutely.
No. Because war involves combat between both parties.
Wars can include the wipeout of specific populations, but it is not necessarily the primary goal. It can be used as a measure of control.
Genocide is carried out intentionally to wipe out a specific population largely of civilians who have no formal armed forces. They are not enemy combatants.
Yes … "war" is simply doing diplomacy by force. It's not civilian massacre and ethnic cleansing. These latter things are illegal and immoral in modern wars, though they do happen.
IDF conscripts on video;
“Running like cowards and crying”
https://x.com/AsadViews/status/1848853772224893223
Where the hell are all the bleeding heart Hollywood liberals during this US sponsored Holocaust? The silence is deafening.
Supporting Harris, what else?
Proof they are evil. If proof was ever needed.
ACLU worries only about lgbt rights. Thousands of Palestinian children exterminated in Gaza don't belong to this group. Besides, as Zionists explained to us, Palestinians are no more than "human animals".
Antiwar is too sympathizing with every kind of perverse. That is the only way to explain why Antiwar allows any scoundrel to insult me, while my response always are "hold on".
I suspect it is neo-Nazi fan who is blocking my responses.
No you don’t suspect that. You just think that some people are stupid enough to believe that if you claim it. And you may be right.
So, I am right.
Like I said, you may be right that some people are stupid enough to believe things you pretend you “suspect” when whining about how special you are.
I think that is you who is always whining.
“I think”
Maybe.
But clearly not before you comment here.
Your responses are occasionally held for moderation because you use language likely in violation of our guidelines. And most of the comments held for moderation end up being published.
You’re not special, in either a good or bad way. There are rules here. You don’t have to like them. You’re subject to them whether you like them or not. You are, however, free to visit a fromagerie if you’d like some cheese to go with your whine. At your own expense, of course.
So, if one belongs to lgbt, he is free to insult anyone, that is your logic?
No, LGBTQ persons aren’t allowed to engage in guidelines-violating slurs, either. They’re not any more special than you are.
Of course they are not special or, at least, if they are special, that is only in a negative way. But they are treated as something specially good, and not only by you but generally in The West.
The good new are: BRICS denounced perverse as incompatible with traditional religions and unacceptable.
I don't "belong" to LGBT. I'm just not an intolerant prick. I can't believe you call yourself a Christian.
"I'm just not an intolerant prick" – yes, you are.
I probably sympathise more with your views, if it matters. However, I might not agree fully.
Everyone has problems. We’re each different.
Of course we are different and everyone has problems. Is it a justification for freaking out when a spade is called a spade?
I didn’t see the censored post. I wouldn’t fret over it. We’re lucky to have the anarchist mod.
The problem is: those "anarchists" and other freaks are everywhere. It is almost consensus in The West that Christian morality is not good enough and every kind of swinish behavior is normal. As result, people accept the corruption also as normal. In general, people are discontent but they can do nothing about that because freaks can't create an efficient opposition to current corrupt anti-Christian regime which is ruling over them.
The anarchist mod has some good arguments at times, as do you. There tends to be truth on all sides.
Preventing an opposition to US elites by US workers is certainly part of US policy. They keep us divided.
In this case, lgbt is really more for population control. However, some people are probably born that way. We’re all unique. I have certain imperfections; Everyone does. I’m just not lgbt.
True. I stand corrected. But I'd say I'm more of an asshole than a prick. I'm actually intolerant of many. Including phony Christians.
Hundreds of thousands ruined, who will never be healthy…
Oh fuck you and your anti LBGT bias.
[moderator’s note: You can knock off the anti-LGBTQ slurs, or you can be gone. Your call – TLK]
My sister is a lesbian… Would you crucify her?!
No, I only don't want her to mix with my children.
I appreciate your directness and honesty, yet, I must tell you, my sister is a very fine human being as are my other gay friends. They do not prey on anyone, truly. I thank you for your response.
Yes, being a direct bigot is so much better than hiding your bigotry. /s
Why? Do you think being a lesbian is contagious? You're like Archie Bunker on steroids.
I don't see why you are so offended. It is true that ACLU is worrying about wellbeing of lgbt more than about genocide in Palestine. It is only too obvious, isn't it?
The ACLU wasn't even mentioned. You just jumped on the chance to bash the LBGT community because you're consumed by them.
The silence from "Pro-Life" activists is also deafening.
Mercy, they get away with it because of media black outs.
People who watch msm have no clue.
Our high paid talking heads in media are every bit as evil, if not more, than the plotters. Bury them with money in their caskets and coins in their eyes upon death, because that is all that matters to them. They have no souls.
They are prostitutes for the war machine. And I hesitated using that word, because it disparages prostitutes who are not operating from a place of evil.
Yes, I know (sigh). But if you heard some of the talking heads on the right, like evangelical pastors speak, you would understand they're no better.
They are all the same.
What fascinates me is how defenders of a group can be right wing or left depending on the group defended. Some of these Palestinians sound like “blood and soil” far rightists. They should read GK Chesterton’s “Patriotic Idea” essay. A chorus of superlatives as the ideal!
Different flavours of the same elite.
“Red team supports glorious leader in the best way!”
“No, blue team is the truest support of glorious leader!”
Or anyone else for that matter. We can vilify those in Hollywood, and rightfully so, because we expect them to take up the cause of people like the Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza. But what about the rest of our society. Does the fact that we don't expect the MAGA crowd to support the Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza mean that we should only be outraged at people who we expect better from? The whole US should be ashamed and not just the phonies in Hollywood.
I agree wars, of course but, we cannot vilify everyone or can we?…!
Indeed, though the hypocrisy does sting more from the "outrage of the month" (aligned with US interests of course) club.
You’re old enough to know that most of the Sheep are conditioned to react only to those stories that the Propaganda Media spoon feed them.
What exactly is your point?
Those children are being ruined right now. It’s like a counter: 100k will never be normal, never achieve in life, 200k, 300k… They might all be worse than dead in a month if not already so.
They’ll be “alive,” they’ll survive, but they’ll never reach their potentials. They’ll likely require aid the rest of their lives, at most doing unskilled labour.
Well, this time their virtue signalling isn't gratis. So whenever in the future one of these sanctimonious 'liberal' actors again rediscover their fervor for human rights, preferably in some country they want the US warmachine to interfere, I do hope they're laughed off the stage and held in as much contempt as they deserve.
https://english.aawsat.com/world/5074322-iran-expects-israeli-response-within-week-sources-say
War is hard, indeed it’s hell!
Fund raising is tedious! (As Hell!)
Let us wrap this up successfully!
Some of us want to get back to writing and helping to get the truth out!
”Angry red drips from the sky and through the putrid haze emerges,
The hideous, grotesque shape of man, standing naked. The nature of our beginning.” djv
There is no limit in how far Netanyahu's killing goons will go in their genocidal campaign.
In the end, it is Israel against the civilized world. Unfortunately, the US under the Biden-Harris administration does not seem to be part of the latter.
Sadly Carol Jean that may be true but yet, we remain here and dedicated as well!
Which reminds me of the Judging Freedom podcast the other day, with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. She related the interview with Golda Meier back in 1973, I believe.
She said that if there were world consensus against Israel, she would not care about the world and Israel would use nukes.
Here it is:
Israel is unconditionally supported by American pro-Zionist financial elite which is also controlling all The West, not only U.S. and Israel.
"it is Israel against the civilized world" – no, Israel is a part of the western civilization. At the moment we have a conflict between The West and global South/East. Genocide in Gaza is not much different from genocide in Donbass which was organized and wholeheartedly supported by NATO. Only the scale is different because in Donbass it was stopped by Russia while in Gaza there are no one who can stop it.
This is demonic. We are being dragged down ro hell with the demon we are tied to.,?
This is saying everything one needs to know about US and the entire Westetn world.