A report released by the UN Human Rights Office on Tuesday condemned Israel’s attacks on hospitals in Gaza, saying the campaign against medical infrastructure in the Strip is a “direct consequence” of Israel’s “disregard” for international law.
“As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
Israel usually claims there’s a presence of militants to justify its attacks on hospitals but never provides real evidence, which the report notes. “Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information,” the report reads.
The report found there were at least 136 Israeli strikes on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities in Gaza between October 12, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The Israeli attacks caused significant casualties among civilians, including patients, doctors, nurses, and other medical staff.
The report found that by the end of June 2024, Israel had killed over 500 medical professionals in Gaza. In November, Gaza’s Government Media Office said the number of medical workers killed was over 1,000.
On top of killing medical workers, the Israeli military has also arrested many and thrown them into prisons where they face torture. Since October 7, 2023, at least three Palestinian doctors have died in Israeli detention facilities.
The report from the UN Human Rights Office came after the Israeli military cleared out and destroyed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, killing and humiliating medical workers in the process. The IDF detained the hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, who has been taken to the notorious Sde Teiman torture prison.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz acknowledged in an editorial that the destruction of Kamal Adwan was part of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza, which has been focused on the cities of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia.
From Moon of Alabama:
"Most horrifying though is the breakdown of humanitarian concepts the 'west' once claimed to hold high. Mearsheimer says it best when he decries the the moral bankruptcy of the West:
Given the West’s presumed commitment to human rights and especially to preventing genocide, one would have expected countries like the United States, Britain, and Germany, to have stopped the Israeli genocide in its tracks.
Instead, the governments in those three countries, especially the United States, have supported Israel’s unimaginable behavior in Gaza at every turn. Indeed, those three countries are complicit in this genocide.
Moreover, almost all of the many human rights advocates in those countries, and in the West more generally, have stayed silent while Israel executed its genocide. The mainstream media has made hardly any effort to expose and challenge what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. Indeed some key outlets have staunchly supported Israel’s actions.
One wonders what people in the West who have either supported Israel’s genocide or remained silent tell themselves to justify their behavior and sleep at night.
All the above already had started some time ago. But it culminated in 2024 in ways that were more noticeable than ever."
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
All those nations that you mention would do the same thing that Israel is doing to protect their citizens. The people of Gaza are paying a heavy price for their decision to support Hamas. If was Hamas leaders, all dead now, who decided to attack Israel. And people of Gaza not only did not stopped them but supported them.
Isreal is not "protecting its citizens.", you filthy lying Zionist pig!
Israel is conducting a genocide in order to steal more of Palestine.
You are the lowest scum for denying the genocide and lying to defend homicidal Zionist monsters.
Death to Zionism!
End the Zionist stranglehold on US government, politics, media and culture.
I know why you are ticked off. He never changes his debunked talking points. No matter how overwhelming the reality is, he chooses to live in his deluded worldview. He persists in this because he is a glutton for punishment and it's the only attention he gets even though its insults. @disqus_qhuce9v5DO:disqus@donnavolatile:disqus@dreamjoehill2:disqus@Garrett_Connelly:disqus
Genocidal Zionists giving lectures about morality and logic never fail to piss me off.
Freedom of speech-get used to it!
Unlike you Zionists, I support freedom of speech.
I will never forgive Zionists for their assault on free speech, press and assembly in the US.
Death to Zionism!
Does that include “Death to Zionist war criminals”
The Israeli leaders who ordered the genocide deserve to be dead now.
Death to Israel!
At least theHamas and Hez leaders have met their maker.
Hope you meet you maker soon too, you filthy supporter of Zionist butchery
Death to Zionism, not Israel!!!! Same as WWII…!!!! Death to Nazism not Germany
Zionism=Israel
Early in the history of Zionism, there was a distinction between cultural Zionism, and political Zionism. I am in favor of cultural Zionism.
Politics, in the guise of The State, poisons everything.
(would do the same)
It's because all those countries are led by debauched, corrupt supremacists. Except for Israel its safe to say that the majority of their populations oppose the Holocaust being committed. Unfortunately Israelis are mostly in favor of the slaughter of innocents.
(Hamas decided to attack Israel)
History did not start on October 7th. You make it sound like Israel was a peaceful country minding its own business, and not a blood thirsty occupying terror state. Not only should the state be attacked. It doesn't deserve to exist.
(all dead now)
BTW, I am glad to report that Hamas' membership both rank and file have swelled in the last year. And is growing.
(did not stop but supported)
You seem to make an argument for Israel's plausible genocide. Can't have it both ways, claiming on one hand israel avoids civilian deaths, and is doing a great job, and on the other you blame the civilians for supporting their armed resistance and therefore deserve to be killed.
"The people of Gaza are paying a heavy price for their decision to support Hamas."
BLAMMO! Well yeee-ha n' dogonnit! Tim-Bro! You the man! You done got th' towel head girly AND the lil' terrorist in the oven in one shot!
There are a lot more than those three countries in complicity…! Referencing the UN ceasefire vote sessions on Gaza Genocide…!
YES NO NAME…!!!! Remember the much BALLEYWHOED R2P that the U.S. was using ot vilify one of it's enemies probably Sadam Husane…????
"Seven years ago, all member states of the United Nations came together to endorse and accept a shared responsibility to protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. While aspects of this principle would need to be elaborated further, we embraced a principle of protection anchored in three pillars: the essential responsibility of States to protect their own citizens, our shared responsibility to take appropriate steps to assist States in exercising that solemn duty, and our preparedness to take timely and decisive action where national authorities manifestly failed to do so. The consensus agreement in 2005 reflected recognition of our common humanity and a new clarity in our collective conscience that certain actions could not be allowed to stand."
Fast forward to today!!!!! What does the U.S. do when It's client state starts openly liquidating it's native population…??????? Does the U.S. tell it's genocidal little buddy to cut it out or find itself cut off from the billions of aid it receives…???? NO THE U.S. SENDS IT'S GENOCIDAL CLIENT THOUSANDS OF 5000 POUND BOMBS & 14,000 2 THOUSAND POUND BOMBS TO REIGN DEATH DOWN ON THE PEOPLE OF GAZA WHO ARE 70% WOMEN & CHILDREN KILLING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF THESE INNOCENTS AS IF THEY ARE NON BEINGS CALLING THEM ANIMALS OTHER GENOCIDAL NAMES AS THE AMERICANS CHEER ON THIS ISRAELI GENOCIDE!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO ARE THE SUBHUMANS DEVOID OF A SHRED OF HUMANITY IN THIS GRAVEST CRIME OF THIS NEW MILLENNIUM?????
IS IT THE 70% OF WOMEN & CHILDREN AND THE PEOPLE OF GAZA OR IS IT THE PEOPLE DROPPING THE BOMBS ON THE NATIVES & THOSE SENDING THE BOMBS TO ISRAEL TO REIGN DOWN ON THOSE LIVING IN GAZA???ANR WHO ARE THE R2P HYPOCRITS WHO TALK PIOUSLY OF R2P AT THE UN & OUR RESPONSIBILITY LIKE U.S. BUT PROVIDE THE BOMBS THAT MAKE THIS GENOCIDE THE CRIME IT IS….???????
The US has forfeited its right to exist.
Go find an another country to live in if you think that US should not exist.
Genocidal assholes stick together in defense of their crimes..
Tim that's just a bit of hyperbole to counter the nonsense that @Garrett_Connelly:disqus and others see from the terrible actions of our country and those who defend the indefensible. However, given the actions of our country I think bigoted Americans should show a little humbleness for the massive blowback our policies have wrought. If they don't like the US being condemned for its role in the slaughter of innocents maybe they should change their leaders to get them to stop the criminal activity.
The terrain and the people will still be here. It's the bad US government promoting and paying for genocide that has lost the right to exist.
Things exist-they on't need a right to do so. With spossible exception of endangered species.
911 – MILLIONS of deaths world-wide afterwards based on the "war on terror" WITHOUT any REAL investigation.
October 7 – there will be MILLIONS of deaths world-wide based on this event WITHOUT any REAL investigation.
There are COVERUPS of 911 and O7 because the USA and Israel let them happen, even abetted BOTH happening. And BOTH nations "justify" a killing campaign based on TOTAL LIES! The war criminals are in charge and need to be dealt with!
LOL
is – are these common thoughts in America?
BOT
The burglar breaks down the door and gets caught-he says the homeowner only had three locks on his door-he should have had five.
Not in our names!…
As Prof. Mearsheimer would say "this isn't a serious argument," but hear you have it. Israel sees Hamas everywhere.
Reporter: "Israel, why did you bomb that hospital?"
Israeli Official: "We had credible intelligence that Hamas was hiding under the vending machine in the hospital lobby."
Reporter: "But it was a maternity ward."
Israeli Official: "Exactly! What better place for them to hide than where no one would suspect? Babies are suspiciously small, you know."
Thats because Hamas is everywhere
They’re not the only ones.
LOL! That's a good one Tom. A bit raunchy but I had to upvote it.
LOL!!!
Elvis pelvis is universal!
;-}
Another arrogant and filthy Zionist liar rears its ugly head to support the mass murder of innocents.
What an evil excuse for a human being!
It's kind of their way of reaching out and trying to get some attention although its negative. You have to understand these people are raised on notions of superiority and this besieged mentality of persecution. When they mature and see the reality of what they have become, they are devastated and sort of retrogress into a depressed, apathetic and hateful state. They can't understand why people don't see the greatness of their actions, arguments and genocide. Seriously, Netanyahu is truly confused as to why he is getting token resistance from his western allies. That's why these guys on this discussion keep saying the US, Britain and Germany would have done worse than what the Israelis are doing. They are truly sick. I do think Israelis need group therapy.
“I do think Israelis need group therapy.”
They need to stop being Israelis.
To the extent that identifying with ANY state is death cultism, yeah.
But that state just happens to be a momentary “forefront” state where the long-term evil of statism is concerned.
Sjut up, antisemite
LOL!
Good For You!
I have no ill feelings towards Jewish people in general.
I’d be quite satisfied with an end to all US aid to Israel. That’s not anti-Semitic, it’s my right as a US citizen and I am not going to be intimidated by the typical dishonest Zionist assault tactics intended to silence critics.
Crush the Zionist assault on free speech!
Don’t believe the hype about rampant anti-Semitism! It reveals the authoritarian menace posed by Zionists in top positions in the US government and elite educational institutions. We will not forget!
Ooh, touchy
Yeah, and it's driving Israelis insane. In our part of the world we have been trying to treat this mental illness they have but its systemic. Every Time they get persecuted by their Euro-Christian friends, we welcome them back and deal with them like human beings with friendliness and fairness. (e.g., Muslim conquests, crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Nazi Germany) However, they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @dreamjoehill2:disqus@donnavolatile:disqus
Sooo-calmly study the expulsion of 750,00 Jewish people from the Arab world during the past century,dhimmitude, and numerous pogroms and period of brutal discrimination against middle eastern Jewish populations. The situation is more nuanced-good times and bad,but rarely equality.
Israel will hunt down and kill Hamas fighters where ever they hide. Until the "fine" people of Gaza returned the kidnapped victims of Oct 7 Israel will keeping attacking.
Palestinians and their allies will hunt down and kill the genocidal Israeli monsters and regain their homeland.
Death to Israel coming none to soon!
S you like to see people "hunted dowwnn".
How come you didn’t direct your comment to Timmy up top? He said it first. Is it because you’re a relentless hypocrite?
See sovereign's reply, you manipulative, dishonest azzhole.
“People” who wantonly kill civilians must face justice.
Israel is far more guilty of that war crime, but so is Hamas, which is why the ICJ issued some warrants for its leadership; however most or all of those Hamas leaders were already killed by Israel.
The numbers killed have made genocide a central issue at the World Court and in the court of international opinion.
And it seems the war rages on, mostly to keep Bibi out of jail.
End all aid and support to the Israeli war criminals!
Killing Palestinians has not given Israel one day of peace or rest. It doesn't work. There was just a report today that they army is telling the political leadership get a ceasefire because the army is exhausted. They need time to recoup so they can go back to killing in earnest. The problem is they will wear themselves down before they can kill everyone (because all of them are Hamas of course). All they are doing is killing themselves. Does Masada ring a bell?
The Israelis will continue to attack the Palestinians regardless of what the Palestinians do. That's the way ethnic cleansing works.
Defund the Zionist monsters and mass murderers.
Death to Zionism.