On Saturday, Israeli forces withdrew from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
Israeli forces pulled out of the area after a siege on the hospital that lasted over 20 days. Israeli tanks fired on the hospital before troops stormed the facility and detained dozens of staff members and some patients.
“We were surrounded from all sides. There was shooting from all directions with bombs and mortars,” said Mayssoun Alian, a nurse at Kamal Adwan.
Medics said at least two children died in the Intensive Care Unit on Friday after Israeli fire hit generators and oxygen tanks at the hospital. The Israeli attack also killed the son of Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the hospital’s director.
“Everything we built, they have burned. They have burned our hearts. They killed my son,” Abu Safia said.
According to Reuters, Israeli forces arrested at least 44 of the 70-member hospital staff and later released 14, including Abu Safia. Alian said the men who were detained were humiliated because they were forced to take off their clothes.
Abu Safia said there are now only two doctors at the hospital for 145 patients and that no surgery services are available. “I don’t have a medical staff capable of providing them this surgical service,” he said.
Abu Safia is calling for humanitarian corridors to allow more healthcare workers into Beit Lahia and for patients who need surgery to be evacuated. “We have called on the world, pleading to open a humanitarian corridor to bring in medical teams that can save those who can be saved,” he said.
Israel has been attempting to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza since the beginning of the month that’s focused on Jabalia and the areas around it, including Beit Lahia, which has involved a complete siege on the north.
The head of Gaza’s Civil Defense told NBC News on Sunday that there have been approximately 1,000 people have been killed and 670 others missing since operations began in northern Gaza. Israeli strikes in Beit Lahia on Saturday killed at least 35.
Middle East Eye reported that northern Gaza’s health system is now completely out of service following the Israeli attack on Kamal Adwan.
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.
If Biden wasn't such a pro-Israeli fanatic he could stop the weapons deliveries to Israel right now, saying the hospital destruction should be investigated. Then just start up the deliveries again the day after the election. But the Israeli lobby has shaped politics so that the politicians who are in control don't just go along with them to get favorable media coverage and money. These are instead politicians who have internalized the Israeli cause. I have met this kind of people. They intoxicate themselves by drinking Israeli war propaganda and repeating it with a grin. It's a way to feel powerful without ever having to face any consequences.
The first time Israel invaded Lebanon, Biden said they should bomb even when it killed women and children. He said that if the U.S. was attacked from Canada they would fire rockets without caring if women and children were also hit. (Israel killed 22,000 Shia civilians in Lebanon 1982-2000.)
In past decades this kind of people loved talking about the revolts in Hungary and Czechoslovakia being beaten down by the communists, and had the same grin when they talked about what happened to the leaders of the revolts.
The United Nations legally defines four types of Atrocity Crimes; https://www.globalr2p.org/publications/defining-the-four-mass-atrocity-crimes/ . These Atrocity Crimes are also articulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;
https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/definitions .
Can anyone show any atrocity defined by these organizations that Israel did Not commit? I find Israel pretty much covered them all. The hospital attack is just one more item on the list. Israel is undermining its very own values as set forth by the Holocaust Museum. No doubt the current Israeli government is a crime organization of the most sinister and psychopathic type not worthy of any support by anyone whatsoever, and needs to be removed. Israel deserves only of world condemnation.
oh bravo Israel. freakin bravo.
https://x.com/i/status/1851022588027494509
Israeli copycat version of Einsatzgruppen