UPDATED 5/13/25 at 4:50 pm EST
Israeli security officials stated that Tel Aviv launched nine bunker busting missiles into and around the courtyard of southern Gaza’s European hospital near Khan Younis on Tuesday. At least 28 people have been killed and 70 others wounded including a journalist hit with shrapnel.
Nermeen Ziyad Abo Mostafa, a medical student, living in a house near the hospital posted on social media describing the terror during the attack. “My heart almost stopped, a continuous belt of fire… We started running from one corner to another, shouting at each other to gather in [one] place, I could not feel my ears from the force of the successive explosions, the fire of the bombs lit up everywhere even though it was not night,” she wrote.
As The Washington Post noted, “The hospital, one of Gaza’s largest, has frequently housed displaced Palestinians along with patients and staff over the course of the war. It was knocked out of service in July after the Israeli military ordered its evacuation, then reopened in August with the help of PalMed Europe, a Paris-based nonprofit of Palestinian doctors.”
Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, reported that Shin Bet and the IDF released a joint statement asserting Tel Aviv’s strike was intended to hit a “command and control center” beneath the hospital. No evidence has been provided to support this claim, which is Tel Aviv’s standard pseudo justification offered up for attacking hospitals in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
This closely follows another strike the same day on the third floor of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis which killed journalist Hassan Aslih, who had been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces. Several others were wounded. Aslih was a patient at Nasser, receiving treatment for wounds he sustained in a previous strike, when he was killed today along with another patient. According to Reuters, at the time of the strike, “[on the third floor] dozens of patients and injured were being treated.”
Social media footage shows large explosions taking place when the missiles made impact with the European Hospital, other videos show Palestinians attempting to rescue people buried under the sand after the bombing.
More footage from Israel’s strikes on European Gaza Hospital https://t.co/KHnsrPQHy5
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 13, 2025
The Israeli army claims the attack was also an assassination attempt on the life of Mohammed Sinwar, the brother of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar who was killed by the IDF in Rafah last October. There is, as yet, no verification on whether Mohammed Sinwar was killed in the strike or indeed was present at the hospital when it was attacked.
Drop Site reported on secondary strikes at the hospital which targeted civil defense workers. “Israel targeted Civil Defense teams in Khan Younis as they were recovering bodies from a home belonging to the Al-Afghani family, struck alongside Gaza European Hospital,” the outlet posted on X.
BREAKING: Israel targeted Civil Defense teams in Khan Younis as they were recovering bodies from a home belonging to the Al-Afghani family, struck alongside Gaza European Hospital.
At least 10 bodies had been recovered before the second strike. Video shows injured rescue… pic.twitter.com/TyaI8yAj4R
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 13, 2025
Additionally, a video was posted by British surgeon Tom Potokar saying the hospital was so damaged in the strike that bringing patients into the operating theatre for treatment is no longer possible.
A British doctor shares footage of the damage inside Gaza’s European Hospital, saying it’s no longer possible to take patients to the operating theater due to the extent of the destruction. https://t.co/UpgSowDDCb
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 13, 2025
Last October, nearly 100 American doctors and other health professionals, who served in the besieged Gaza Strip amidst Israel’s genocidal campaign, sent an open letter to the Joe Biden White House denying Israel’s claims about Hamas command centers in health facilities across the Strip.
“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 letter reads.
Connor Freeman is the assistant editor and a writer at the Libertarian Institute, primarily covering foreign policy. He is a co-host on the Conflicts of Interest podcast. His writing has been featured in media outlets such as Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, and the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He has also appeared on Liberty Weekly, Around the Empire, and Parallax Views. You can follow him on Twitter @FreemansMind96.
Fucking monsters.
Terrorists In Suits…!
Terrorist doesn’t quite nail who they are. It’s a gross understatement, net.
Jerusalem wildfire worst-ever in Israel, national emergency declared.
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A few weeks ago I caught an interview with an evidently British spokesliar for Israel who claimed that Israel had eliminated about 75% of Hamas and Islamic Jihad (he conflated/combined the two.) If you followed the logic of his script, which I don't believe either he nor the people who wrote it did themselves, the math would leave a person believing that the entire possible remaining combined military force in Gaza was less than 25,000 or possibly 20,000 men. And men who are cut off from resupply and might be struggling with food security.
I just looked up Israeli troop strength and a figure I saw including reserves was 3.9 million. So Israel is claiming it needs to bomb hospitals because it's 3,900,000 person military faces an existential threat from 22,000 hungry fighters who are retooling weapons from dismantled Israeli dud bombs supplied by the American taxpayer.
Another mathematical consequence of this spokesperson's claims was that, back of the envelope, Israel was claiming to lose one soldier for about every 80 it killed. It's a massacre if the figures are accurate and it's a massacre if they aren't.
Is this not a War Crime?!…..!
I don't know anything, but it seems to me they changed their priority from not caring about the hostages to making it a priority to make sure they're dead.
An everyday occurrence that would land anyone else on our state departments designated terrorist list. There really should be no such thing unless Irael is added to that list. And placed where they rightfully belong, right at the very top.
That is not going to happen.
I know. I also know you didn't try to deny they are terrorists, only that they will never be on the designated terrorist list. Now, if it was based on Israel's actions, even you can't deny they have used terroristic tactics. Their rules of engagement are no different than any designated terrorist organization although their weaponry provided by the US dwarfs anything ANY terrorist organization could possibly dream of possessing.
Probably our bunker busting missiles, after all Trump sent them more cluster bombs some time ago.
Trump has approved over $14 billion in military aid and weapons sales to Israel. https://www.trackaipac.com/trump
Foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
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Laws do no apply in Trumpestan, period. But that particular law never applied in the US regardless of what clown put a face on the regime of the day. They are not a country ruled by law, they are a country ruled by interests. And the money that buys them.
Israel says "strike was intended to hit a 'command and control center' beneath the hospital. No evidence has been provided to support this claim, which is Tel Aviv’s standard pseudo justification…for attacking hospitals"
1/ Israel almost never supports these claims with evidence.
2/ Claims which have been repeatedly exposed as lies:
a/ Already, Israeli claims re its latest atrocity are collapsing. See this:
"Gaza hospital attack: Analysis contradicts Israel's evidence justifying airstrike"
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-hospital-attack-analysis-contradicts-israels-evidence-justifying-airstrike-13367823
b/ And this: "BBC DEBUNKS Israel Hospital Gold Bunker Lies" (Breaking Points, Youtube, 6 mo ago)
c/ And this: "HOSPITAL STRIKE: NYT Disputes US, Israel Intel (Breaking Points, Youtube, 1 year ago)
d/ And this: "CONFIRMED: IDF, Biden LIED About Hamas Hospital Tunnels" ((Breaking Points, Youtube, 1 year ago)
e/ And this: "Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital: The hatch Israel claimed was a Hamas tunnel is only a water reservoir for the hospital." (AlJazeera, 11/8/23)
Depraved criminality.