Posted on 11/10/2023 7:16:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Some hospitals in Gaza say they are under attack as heavy fighting and explosions over the last 24 hours have continued amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
Targeting civilians is against the laws of war, but Israel maintains that Hamas uses civilians as shields. International organizations have decried the shellings in retaliation for Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack, which killed more than 1,400 in Israel. The death toll continues to mount in Gaza with 11,078 dead as of Friday, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest medical center located in Gaza City -- where thousands of wounded people are being treated and thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering -- reported large explosions nearby Friday morning, staff told ABC News and in video verified by ABC News.
Many people are attempting to flee the violence including hospital staff like surgeon Sara AlSaqqa. AlSaqqa sent two messages to ABC News on Friday saying, "We evacuated" and "This is a nightmare."
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati, head of the plastic surgery department at Al-Shifa, said the hospital had been shelled and that the staff has "enough fuel for generators until tonight, when about 100 patients on respirators in adult ICU and neonatal ICU will die" if more fuel does not arrive.
It's unclear where the attack came from. Video verified by ABC News showed Palestinians in the area injured after the attack.
Mokhallalati said he is not leaving the hospital and told ABC News between 15% and 20% of hospital personnel are currently working.
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If Israel was actually targeting civilians, there would be at least 10 times the number of Arab casualties in Gaza. This is ALL on Hamas for startling the war by mass murdering Israeli civilians, for building military infrastructure among or under civilian infrastructure and for preventing its own people from leaving a combat zone.
One heck of a fight that’s going on...my gosh..nonstop for 3 hours...revs up to insane firing then slight yull but never without firing...smoke covers the city....fighting throughout Gaza City now....going after the hospital...
Now Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jt_ZWNzd7c
Shouldn’ta started nothing, wouldn’ta be nothing.
iirc they said they were running out of fuel about three weeks ago.
Should have thought about this when you elected hamas as your government and celebrated the mass murder of women and children
Hospitals/military headquarters that is.
Hamas has plenty of fuel. Just use some of theirs.
They can should stop sharing their fuel with the Hamas leaders hiding out in their basement.
Hospitals (and medical teams) are generally protected by international law, however this protection is not absolute. If one side is using a hospital (or medical teams) to carry out attacks harmful to the enemy, the hospital becomes a legitimate target.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1212073968/israel-gaza-hamas-war-crimes-hospitals
In other important news, we might be getting a lil rain this weekend
There...fixed it.
I’m betting the majority of ICU patients are wounded terrorists.
If Hamas is supposedly not under
or in the hospitals vicinity, why
was there such a high level of
resistance once the Israeli tanks
surrounded it?
Ambulances are also equipped to
transport any and all ICU patients,
so the docs have no excuse other than
Hamas has threatened any that want to
leave. That hospital could have been
evacuated weeks ago.
Womp womp.
It is known that Hamas stole fuel from Gaza hospitals. So, tuff noogies palescumians-—you voted for this!
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