"Israel admits its soldiers fired at car in which Hind Rajab was killed"
Kommentar i Haaretz
"Analysis
The IDF Is FinallyProbing Hind Rajab's Killing. Don't Expect Accountability"
"The IDF is investigating five high-profile cases, including the killings of Hind Rajab and Palestinian paramedics. But hundreds of other incidents that raise questions about the army's rules of engagement remain unexamined"
Avslutning av artikkel i Haaretz:
"The IDF's conduct and policies governing the use of fire during the war in Gaza have permanently stained its reputation and that of the State of Israel."
Debatt i Aftenposten om utviklingen i Gaza, se Kilde.
Min kommentar1:
Jan Marton Jensen
for noen sekunder siden
Aftenpostens journalister dokumenterer her det planmessige opplegget for etnisk rensing av palestinerne på Gazastripen. Alt som opprettholder liv ødelegges. Det SKAL være et ulevelig samfunn der , med anarki og sykdom, uten håp.
Dette er en soleklar kollektiv avstraffelse, en krigsforbrytelse.
Ja, en forbrytelse mot menneskeheten.
Journalistene har vist opplegget.
Da må også den redaksjonelle LEDELSE begynne å bruke ORDENE, de ordene som presist og utilslørt beskriver virkeligheten.
Inn på Vestbredden har Israel sendt hundretusenener av israelere som under den brutale og ulovlige (ref ICJ) okkupasjonen, nå snart 60 år, utfører vold, pogromer og drap på palestinere, i suveren forakt for Folkeretten.
Artikkel i Aftenposten 18. desember 2024 av professor Kjersti Lohne:
"Den internasjonale straffedomstolen risikerer å kollapse"
"Jeg var observatør under statspartsmøtet for ICC i Haag forrige uke. Der var stemningen lettere panisk."
Utdrag:
"I høst avslørte avisen The Guardian
at den israelske etterretningstjenesten Mossad aktivt har motvirket
ICCs etterforskning – i over ni år. Det har den gjort blant annet ved å
spionere, overvåke og true ICCs ansatte og særlig daværende sjefaktor
Fatou Bensouda og hennes mann.
Nådestøtet ser derimot ut til å komme fra USA. Lovforslaget Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act
vil innføre sanksjoner – visumforbud og frysing av eiendeler og formue –
mot utenlandske individer og deres familiemedlemmer som bidrar til
ICC-etterforskning USA ikke liker.
I
tillegg til anklagere, dommere og andre ansatte ved ICC vil sanksjonene
kunne ramme vitner, individer og generelt menneskerettighetsarbeid,
slik som dokumentering av krigsforbrytelser. Sanksjonene vil også kunne
ramme nordmenn som bidrar med slikt – i tillegg til ansatte hos de mange
internasjonale organisasjonene og menneskerettighetsorganisasjonene som samarbeider med ICC."
Professor Lohne er skremt. Stormakter undergraver Nurnberg-prosessenes lærdom med sine angrep på ICC.
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ experts call an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.
Vurdering av den britiske menneskerettsjurist Geoffrey Nice om IDF massakre av ambulansepersonnell i Rafah. Utdrag av artikkel i Al Jazeera, se Kilde:
"Geoffrey Nice, a top British human rights lawyer and lead prosecutor at Slobodan Milosevic’s 2002 trial, has called on the international community to put more pressure on the Israeli government to fully explain its role in the medics’ killings in Gaza.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Nice said “it would be very hard to believe” that those involved in the massacre of the medical workers were “rogue elements” of the Israeli military.
“When you have the people, who can send the bulldozers and their diggers, the people who send out the public relations information, which turned out [to] be false, it is very hard to believe that this is a rogue element,” he said.
“If it is not a rogue element, then what’s being done is in accordance with the practice and accepted practice within the [Israeli army], and that’s going to be something very difficult to confront. Without better justification, or any justification, this is a terribly serious war crime,” Nice added.
IDF bomber ambulanser og brannbiler i Gaza, se Kilde:
"Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah" "Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says"
IDFs forklaring: De var mistenkelige.
FN: "Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since 18 March, “Israeli airstrikes in densely populated areas have killed hundreds of children and other civilians”.
“Patients killed in their hospital beds. Ambulances shot at. First responders killed,” he said in a statement.
“If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act while it can to uphold them.”
29. mars 2025 Debatt i Aftenposten
"Israel angrep ambulanser i Gaza – helsearbeidere fortsatt savnet"
"Den israelske hæren innrømmer å ha angrepet flere ambulanser i Rafah sør på Gazastripen sist søndag. Skjebnen til helsearbeiderne er fortsatt uviss."
Min kommentar der:
Jan Marton Jensen
for noen sekunder siden
Artikkelen AVSLUTTES slik:
FN:
"– Pasienter drept i sykehussenger. Ambulanser beskutt. Redningsarbeidere drept. Dersom de grunnleggende prinsippene i folkeretten fortsatt har noe å si, må verdenssamfunnet handle mens de fortsatt kan håndheves, sier Fletcher i en uttalelse."
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Kommentar:
Denne avslutningen må være BEGYNNELSEN.
Verdenssamfunnet har ballen.
Norge har ballen.
Og vi har det sterkeste sanksjonsmiddelet: Oljefondet
EDIT 2. april 2025 The Guardian:
"Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of 15 Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says"
"Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage"
5. april 2025 The Guardian
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances
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Bildet som fremstår er at IDF lyver om hva som skjedde.
Skudeneshavn 29. mars 2025 / 2. april 2025 / 5. april 2025
Opinion | Why Did Halevi Let the Israeli Army Commit War Crimes Against the Palestinians?
A Palestinian child walks in the rain amidst building rubble in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.Credit: AFP/Eyad Baba
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi's resignation announcement leaves a somewhat sour taste. An important state official is about to leave his position and disappear into the unknown.
Was he a good chief of staff? Was his performance in the course of his brief term competent and up to expectations? Was he in control of the army he was in charge of? Was he in control of the army's combatant branch? Was he aware of the manipulations wielded by Benjamin Netanyahu and his government members on the General Staff and on the Israeli public?
Command, in my understanding, begins with control and supervision from the top. Here lies the first obstacle: total lack of control of the goings-on in the West Bank. The army in the West Bank, beginning with the division commander and down to several brigade commanders, has turned into loyal militias of the settlement movement, utterly betraying its duty as an occupying force, which is to protect the civilian Palestinian population there.
The army forces in the West Bank have become collaborators with the Jewish terrorists throughout the region. They are partners to abusing the Palestinians, to depriving shepherd communities of water, to preventing Palestinian farmers from harvesting their olives, and to legitimizing pogroms in Palestinian villages. Brigade commanders safeguarded pilgrimages to Joseph's Tomb and even took part in them as the settlers' guests, severely disrupting the Palestinians' lives in the area. Did the chief of staff know about the blatant violations of the law committed by the army under his command, or were his eyes blind to all this?
After the appalling October 7 massacre, in which my son Tom was killed in his home in Kibbutz Kissufim – didn't the chief of staff see Netanyahu's cynical manipulation of the army and of all Israelis, declaring a war of revenge intended to keep him in power as long as it continues? Why didn't the chief of staff bear down to return all the hostages right away, even at the price of releasing terrorists and avoiding war?
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi in the Gaza Strip, in January.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi in the Gaza Strip, in January.Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Why did he fall in line with the government's bizarre decisions to flatten the Gaza Strip and kill tens of thousands of civilians, women and children? Why did he agree to let the army bring rabbis into the combatant units, and agree to go along with the brainwashing that this was a religious war, a war of revival, turning the army into a body that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity? Why did he keep silent in the face of loosening military discipline, allowing civilians into war zones and leading to a soldiers' deaths? Why did he enable the attempt to whitewash the investigating of the incident in which Ze'ev Ehrlich and the soldier Gur Kehati were killed?
Granted, after the October 7 shock, the chief of staff and the army came to their senses, fought and led Israel to significant military achievements. And yet, many questions are waiting for answers. Some of the questions will never be answered by those responsible, so the call to set up a state inquiry commission must be shouted out from every stage and in every forum.
Netanyahu must take responsibility and resign forthwith, together with the incompetent ministers making up his criminal government. And we, members of liberal civil society and the protest movements, must be united in our demand to return all the hostages, while at the same time keeping our eyes on the ball – the regime coup is in process and our supreme commitment, along with returning the hostages, is to prevent the justice minister and his gang to continue abusing our Israel.
The writer is the father of Tom Godo, who was killed in Hamas' attack on Kibbutz Kissufim on October 2023.
"Revealed: Israel used US weapons in strike that killed journalists"
#Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be war crime, legal experts say after Guardian investigation"
Dokumentasjon av målrettet drap på journalister i Libanon. Og der det angis denne konklusjonen: "“It is the silence of the international community that let this happen,” Ftouni said."
LANG AP-artikkel i Haaretz 5. november 2024.... HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde. Artikkelen tar for seg i detalj IDF's systematiske ødeleggelse av sykehusene i Gaza. Og mishandling og drap av helsepersonell:
"Still Wrecked From Past Israeli Raids, Hospitals in Northern Gaza Come Under Attack Again"
"Three
hospitals in northern Gaza, all of them besieged and raided by Israeli
troops some 10 months ago, are again encircled by Israeli troops and
under fire."
Arttikkelen er ajour med den siste IDF-volden på sykehusene i Nord-Gaza, pr 5. november. Denne artikkelen er dokumentasjon for ICC og ICJ.
Ny Info 22. juli 2025
Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer
Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.
Still Wrecked From Past Israeli Raids, Hospitals in Northern Gaza Come Under Attack Again
Three
hospitals in northern Gaza, all of them besieged and raided by Israeli
troops some 10 months ago, are again encircled by Israeli troops and
under fire
A Palestinian man wounded in an Israeli strike at a hospital in the central Gaza Strip, last week.Credit: Ahmed Mustafa/Reuters
They were built to be places of healing.
But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by
Israeli troops and under fire.
Bombardment
is pounding around them as Israel wages a new offensive against Hamas
fighters that it says have regrouped nearby. As staff scramble to treat
waves of wounded, they remain haunted by a war that has seen hospitals
targeted with an intensity and overtness rarely seen in modern warfare.
All three were besieged and raided by
Israeli troops some 10 months ago. The Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda and
Indonesian hospitals still have not recovered from the damage, yet are
the only hospitals even partially operational in the area.
Medical
facilities often come under fire in wars, but combatants usually depict
such incidents as accidental or exceptional, since hospitals enjoy
special protection under international law. In its year-long campaign in
Gaza, Israel has stood out by carrying out an open campaign on hospitals,
besieging and raiding at least 10 of them across the Gaza Strip, some
several times, as well as hitting multiple others in strikes.
It has said this is a military necessity in its aim to destroy Hamas
after the militants' October 7, 2023 attacks. It claims Hamas uses
hospitals as "command and control bases" to plan attacks, to shelter
fighters and to hide hostages. It argues that nullifies the protections
for hospitals.
"If
we intend to take down the military infrastructure in the north, we
have to take down the philosophy of [using] the hospitals," Israeli
military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said of Hamas during an
interview with The Associated Press in January after the first round of
hospital raids.
Most prominently, Israel twice raided Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital,
the biggest medical facility in the strip, producing a video animation
depicting it as a major Hamas base, though the evidence it presented
remains disputed.
A woman sits on a bed in a room of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, August.Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo
But the focus on Al-Shifa has overshadowed raids on other facilities.
The AP spent months gathering accounts of the raids on al-Awda,
Indonesian and Kamal Adwan Hospitals, interviewing more than three dozen
patients, witnesses and medical and humanitarian workers as well as
Israeli officials.
It found that Israel has presented little
or even no evidence of a significant Hamas presence in those cases. The
AP presented a dossier listing the incidents reported by those it
interviewed to the Israeli military spokesman's office. The office said
it could not comment on specific events.
Al-Awda Hospital: 'A death sentence'
The
Israeli military has never made any claims of a Hamas presence at
al-Awda. When asked what intelligence led troops to besiege and raid the
hospital last year, the military spokesman's office did not reply.
In
recent weeks, the hospital has been paralyzed once again, with Israeli
troops fighting in the nearby Jabalya refugee camp and no food, water or
medical supplies entering areas of northern Gaza.
Its director Mohammed Salha said last month that the facility was
surrounded by troops and was unable to evacuate six critical patients.
Staff were down to eating one meal a day, usually just a flat bread or a
bit of rice, he said.
As
war-wounded poured in, exhausted surgeons were struggling to treat
them. No vascular surgeons or neurosurgeons remain north of Gaza City,
so the doctors often resort to amputating shrapnel-shattered limbs to
save lives.
The military, which did not respond to a
specific request for comment on al-Awda hospital, says it takes all
possible precautions to prevent civilian casualties.
Last
year, fighting was raging around al-Awda when, on November 21, a shell
exploded in the facility's operating room. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, two
other doctors and a patient's uncle died almost instantly, according to
international charity Doctors Without Borders, which said it had
informed the Israeli military of its coordinates.
Dr. Mohammed Obeid, Abu Nujaila's
colleague, recalled dodging shellfire inside the hospital complex.
Israeli sniper fire killed a nurse and two janitors and wounded a
surgeon, hospital officials said.
By Dec. 5, al-Awda was surrounded. For 18 days, coming or going became "a death sentence," Obeid said.
Survivors
and hospital administrators recounted at least four occasions when
Israeli drones or snipers killed or badly wounded Palestinians trying to
enter. Two women about to give birth were shot and bled to death in the
street, staff said. Salha, the administrator, watched gunfire kill his
cousin, Souma, and her 6-year-old son as she brought the boy for
treatment of wounds.
Palestinian
medics treat a wounded person using flashlights after running out of
power at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, last November.Credit: Ahmed Alarini/AP Photo
Shaza al-Shuraim said labor pains left her
no choice but to walk an hour to al-Awda to give birth. She, her
mother-in-law and 16-year-old brother-in-law raised flags made of white
blouses. "Civilians!" her mother-in-law, Khatam Sharir, kept shouting.
Just outside the gate, a burst of gunfire answered, killing Sharir.
On
December 23, troops stormed the hospital, ordering men ages 15 to 65 to
strip and undergo interrogation in the yard. Mazen Khalidi, whose
infected right leg had been amputated, said nurses pleaded with soldiers
to let him rest rather than join the blindfolded and handcuffed men
outside. They refused, and he hobbled downstairs, his stump bleeding.
"The humiliation scared me more than death," Khalidi said.
The
hospital's director, Ahmed Muhanna, was seized by Israeli troops; his
whereabouts remain unknown. One of Gaza's leading doctors, orthopedist
Adnan al-Bursh, was also detained during the raid and died in Israeli custody in May.
In
the wreckage from the November shelling, staff found a message that Abu
Nujaila had written on a whiteboard in the previous weeks.
"Whoever stays until the end will tell the story," it read in English. "We did what we could. Remember us."
Indonesian Hospital: 'Patients dying before your eyes'
Several blocks away, on October 18,
artillery hit the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital, staff said.
People fled for their lives. They'd already been surrounded by Israeli
troops, leaving doctors and patients inside without enough food, water
and supplies.
"The bombing around us has increased. They've paralyzed us," said Edi Wahyudi, an Indonesian volunteer.
Two
patients died because of a power outage and lack of supplies, said
Muhannad Hadi, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Palestinian
territories.
Tamer
al-Kurd, a nurse at the hospital, said around 44 patients and only two
doctors remain. He said he was so dehydrated he was starting to
hallucinate. "People come to me to save them. … I can't do that by
myself, with two doctors," he said in a voice message, his voice weak.
"I'm tired."
On Saturday, the Israeli military said it had facilitated the evacuation of 29 patients from Indonesian and Al-Awda hospitals.
The Indonesian is northern Gaza's largest hospital.
Today its top floors are charred, its walls pockmarked by shrapnel, its
gates strewn with piled-up rubble – all the legacy of Israel's siege in
the autumn of 2023.
Before
the assault, the Israeli army claimed an underground
command-and-control center lay beneath the hospital. It released blurry
satellite images of what it said was a tunnel entrance in the yard and a
rocket launchpad nearby, outside the hospital compound.
The Indonesia-based group that funds the
hospital denied any Hamas presence. "If there's a tunnel, we would know.
We know this building because we built it brick by brick, layer by
layer. It's ridiculous," Arief Rachman, a hospital manager from the
Indonesia-based Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, told the AP last
month.
After
besieging and raiding the hospital, the military did not mention or
show evidence of the underground facility or tunnels it had earlier
claimed. When asked if any tunnels were found, the military spokesman's
office did not reply.
An Israeli soldier shows the media an underground tunnel found underneath Al-Shifa Hospital, last November.Credit: Victor R. Caivano/AP Photo
It released images of two vehicles found in the compound – a pickup
truck with military vests and a bloodstained car belonging to an
abducted Israeli, suggesting he had been brought to the hospital on
October 7. Hamas has said it brought wounded hostages to hospitals for
treatment.
During the siege, Israeli shelling crept
closer and closer until, on Nov. 20, it hit the Indonesian's second
floor, killing 12 people and wounding dozens, according to staff. Israel
said troops responded to "enemy fire" from the hospital but denied
using shells.
Gunfire
over the next days hit walls and whizzed through intensive care.
Explosions sparked fires outside the hospital courtyard where some 1,000
displaced Palestinians
sheltered, according to staff. The Israeli military denied targeting
the hospital, although it acknowledged nearby bombardment may have
damaged it.
For three weeks, wounded poured in – up to
500 a day to a facility with capacity for 200. Supplies hadn't entered
in weeks. Bloodstained linens piled up. Doctors, some working 24-hour
shifts, ate a few dates a day. The discovery of moldy flour on Nov. 23
was almost thrilling.
Without
medicines or ventilators, there was little doctors could do. Wounds
became infected. Doctors said they performed dozens of amputations on
infected limbs. Medics estimated a fifth of incoming patients died. At
least 60 corpses lay in the courtyard. Others were buried beneath a
nearby playground.
"To see patients dying before your eyes
because you don't have the ability to help them, you have to ask
yourself: 'Where is humanity?'" asked Dergham Abu Ibrahim, a volunteer.
Kamal Adwan: 'This makes no sense'
Kamal Adwan Hospital, once a linchpin of northern Gaza's health system, was burning on Thursday of last week.
Israeli
shells crashed into the third floor, igniting a fire that destroyed
medical supplies, according to the World Health Organization, which had
delivered the equipment just days before. The artillery hit water tanks
and damaged the dialysis unit, badly burning four medics who tried to
extinguish the blaze, said the hospital's director, Hossam Abu Safiya.
In videos pleading for help over the past
weeks, Abu Safiya had fought to maintain his composure as Israeli forces
surrounded the hospital. But last weekend, there were tears in his
eyes.
"Everything we have built, they have burned," he said, his voice cracking. "They burned our hearts. They killed my son."
On
October 25, Israeli troops stormed the hospital after what an Israeli
military official described as an intense fight with militants nearby.
During the battle, Israeli fire targeted the hospital's oxygen tanks
because they "can be booby traps," the official said.
Burned
medical supplies are scattered in a storage room hit by an Israeli
strike on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, last week.Credit: AFP
Israeli forces withdrew after three days, during which Palestinian
health officials said nearly all of Kamal Adwan's medical workers were
detained, an Israeli drone killed at least one doctor and two children
in intensive care died when generators stopped working.
Days later, a drone struck Abu Safiya's son
in nearby Jabalya. The 21-year-old had been wounded by Israeli snipers
during the first military raid on Kamal Adwan
last December. Now he is buried in the yard of the hospital, where just
Abu Safiya and one other doctor remain to treat the dozens of wounded
pouring in each day from new strikes in Jabalya.
The
Israeli military said troops detained 100 people, some who were "posing
as medical staff." Soldiers stripped the men to check for weapons, the
military said, before those deemed militants were sent to detention
camps. The military claimed that the hospital was "fully operational,
with all departments continuing to treat patients." It released footage
of several guns and an RPG launcher with several rounds it said it found
inside the hospital.
Kamal Adwan staff say more than 30 medical
personnel remain detained, including the head of nursing, who is
employed by MedGlobal, an American organization that sends medical teams
to disaster regions, and Dr. Mohammed Obeid, the surgeon employed by Doctors without Borders who previously worked at al-Awda Hospital and had moved to Kamal Adwan.
The
turmoil echoed Israel's nine-day siege of Kamal Adwan last December. On
December 12, soldiers entered and allowed police dogs to attack staff,
patients and others, multiple witnesses said. Ahmed Atbail, a
36-year-old who had sought refuge at the hospital, said he saw a dog
bite off one man's finger.
Witnesses said the troops ordered boys and
men, ranging from their mid-teens to 60, to line up outside crouched in
the cold, blindfolded and nearly naked for hours of interrogation.
"Every time someone lifted their heads, they were beaten," said Mohammed
al-Masri, a lawyer who was detained.
The
military later published footage of men exiting the hospital. Al-Masri
identified himself in the footage. He said soldiers staged the images,
ordering men to lay down rifles belonging to the hospital guards as if
they were militants surrendering. Israel said all photos released are
authentic and that it apprehended dozens of suspected militants.
Rubbish and debris are scattered near damaged buildings in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, last week.Credit: AFP
As they released some of the men after
interrogation, soldiers fired on them as they tried to reenter the
hospital, wounding five, three detainees said. Ahmed Abu Hajjaj recalled
hearing bursts of gunfire as he made his way back in the dark. "I
thought, this makes no sense – who would they be shooting at?"
Witnesses
also said a bulldozer lumbered into the hospital compound, plowing into
buildings. Abu Safiya, Abu Hajjaj and al-Masri described being held by
soldiers inside the hospital as they heard people screaming outside.
After the soldiers withdrew, the men saw
the bulldozer had crushed tents that previously sheltered some 2,500
people. Most of the displaced had evacuated, but Abu Safiya said he
found bodies of four people crushed, with splints from recent treatment
in the hospital still on their limbs.
Asked
about the incident, the Israeli military spokesman's office said: "Lies
were spread on social media" about troops' activities at the hospital.
It said bodies were discovered that had been buried previously,
unrelated to the military's activities.
Medics evacuate injured people and cancer patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, last month.Credit: AFP
Later, the military said Hamas used the hospital as a command center but
produced no evidence. It said soldiers uncovered weapons, but it showed
footage only of a single pistol.
The hospital's director, Dr. Ahmed
al-Kahlout, remains in Israeli custody. The military released footage of
him under interrogation saying he was a Hamas agent and that militants
were based in the hospital. His colleagues said he spoke under duress.
The fallout
Hagari, the military spokesperson,
said hospitals "provide a life of their own ... to the [Hamas] war
system." He said hospitals were linked to tunnels allowing fighters
movement. "And when you take it, they have no way to move. Not from the
south to the north."
Despite often suggesting hospitals are
linked to Hamas' underground networks, the military has shown only one
tunnel shaft from all the hospitals it raided – one leading to
Al-Shifa's grounds.
In
a report last month, a UN investigation commission determined that
"Israel has implemented a concerted policy to destroy the health-care
system of Gaza." It described Israeli actions at hospitals as
"collective punishment against the Palestinians in Gaza."
Some patients now fear hospitals, refusing
to go to them or leaving before treatment is complete. "They are places
of death," Ahmed al-Qamar, a 35-year-old economist in Jabalia refugee
camp, said of his fear of taking his children to the hospital. "You can
feel it."
Zaher
Sahloul, the president of MedGlobal who has also worked in Gaza during
the war, said the sense of safety that should surround hospitals has
been destroyed.
"This war has become a scar in the minds of every doctor and nurse."
