After two weeks of siege, Israel has left al-Shifa Hospital in complete ruins with the bodies of innocent Palestinians strewn across the courtyard and throughout buildings. Israel burned several medical buildings to the ground that were a part of the al-Shifa complex of buildings. The hospital is now inoperable and no evidence of tunnels or a command center have been presented by Israel, which was their reasoning for this death and destruction.
6,200 Palestinians sheltered in and around the hospital.
Over 400 innocent Palestinians were killed at al-Shifa.
Around 350 Palestinians were arrested by Israel (Israel states it is as much as 900 Palestinians).
21 patients of the hospital died as a result of Israel’s siege.
As Israel retreated from al-Shifa, they bulldozed the courtyard and filled it with sand to cover over the dead bodies they left behind. Many of the dead were zip-tied or bound. Body parts are scattered everywhere. The Palestinian Red Crescent is accusing Israel of torturing Palestinians and executing them.
Israel is blaming Hamas for the siege and destruction for utilizing a hospital for their alleged headquarters. Hamas claims that they have never used the hospital as a command center. Doctors that have worked at the hospital state that Hamas has never had a presence in al-Shifa, Palestinian leaders are calling the devastation at the hands of Israel a war crime.
Many innocent Palestinians were killed or arrested by Israel, and Israel is claiming that these innocent Palestinians were Hamas militants, when in actuality they were civilians that had nothing to do with Hamas or the fighting and simply trying to survive. The fact that many of those killed were restrained in some way shows how depraved and evil Israel truly is.
al-Shifa has been attacked previously in the war on Gaza back in November but now Israel has finished what they had clearly wanted to accomplish back in November which was to render the hospital inoperable.
There is no food or water in the ruined hospital complex. The 6,200 Palestinians that were sheltered in and around the hospital have been displaced once again, but no where is safe in Gaza. Hospitals are destroyed and people executed, but there is no repercussion or accountability for Israel.
These are war crimes that Israel is committing. This is a genocide that Israel is committing.
Since there are no actions holding Israel to account, their thirst for violence and impunity is intensified and Israel is bombing foreign aid workers, bombing Syria and Lebanon, and cutting off access to the news media outlet, Al Jazeera. No one is checking Israel’s atrocities and they will worsen and worsen until world leaders sanction Israeli officials and enact a complete arms and trade embargo on Israel.
Even as stories of torture and footage of the annihilation in al-Shifa and adjacent, all the US can offer is their continued “deeply concerned” status over Israel’s war crimes and genocide.
When will world leaders do something to hold Israel accountable? How many more hospitals and innocent lives must be destroyed before they sanction and embargo Israel?
From the river to the sea, may Palestine be free. May the whole world be free.
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Articles for reference. Please read and share.
Reuters: Israeli troops exit Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, leaving rubble and bodies
Al Jazeera: As those fleeing al-Shifa get to south Gaza, they recount Israeli torture
The Guardian: Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza’s al0Shifa hospital after two-week raid leaving facility in ruins
Al Jazeera: Israel leaves al-Shifa in ruins and littered with human remains
The Washington Post: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital