Earlier, the BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf reported that a contact still inside Gaza City’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, had told him 170 bodies were being buried in a mass grave there.
Since then, we’ve heard from the hospital’s director who says 179 people, including babies, have been buried in the grave within the hospital grounds.
“There are bodies littered in the hospital complex and there is no longer electricity at the morgues,” Mohammad Abu Salmiyah is quoted by multiple news agencies as saying. “We were forced to bury them in a mass grave.”
The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf has heard that no people, or any items of aid, have been allowed in or out of the Al-Shifa hospital for the last 48 hours, according to one of his contacts.
That source - one of the few remaining journalists in the hospital - says four people had tried to leave Al-Shifa yesterday, but were shot in the legs and left on the ground bleeding for around two hours.
Medics had to risk their lives to get them into the hospital for treatment, the source tells Abualouf.
Can’t wait for someone to try to explain how technically this isn’t a war crime because something something Hamas something something right to defend itself
It’s only a war crime when YOUR TEAM does it not when MY TEAM does it! I only have enough braincells to function my lungs and critical thought about a heavily nuanced situation is impossible for me REEEEEEE
Average political discourse these days. Also, you’re 100% correct.
Making sarcastic comments about Israeli genocide is anti semitic.
This is why it’s a war crime to use hospitals as military bases. And ambulances as military transports.
And somehow this makes withholding all aid for 48 hours not a war crime? Shooting innocent people and leaving them to just bleed on the ground is totally cool now?
One war crime doesn’t excuse another.
You’ll find Israel is above most rules that others have to play by.
The point is that militarizing emergency equipment causes civilian casualties by turning medical facilities into legitimate military targets
So do you think what Israel is doing is ok? Cutting off all supplies to a hospital? Is this just standard war stuff in your mind?
You are making the mistake of assuming everything is a binary choice. Disagreeing with Hamas’s actions does not mean you support the IDF’s. And vice versa.
If the hospital is a military base, it makes sense that supplies would be cut off to it.
There’s no way to escape the fact that war is terrible. But we do have things called the rules of war which brings the horrible nature of it down a couple notches. Driving around military forces under a red cross is a war crime, pure and simple, for exactly this reason - if a military force doesn’t have the honor to respect the sanctity of lifesaving medical care, then they’re going to make every medical center into a potential target for attack.
I am not a fan of everything Israel has done, but they’re clearly the better people in this scenario.
If the hospital is a military base, it makes sense that supplies would be cut off to it.
Not if it is also a hospital. Then cutting off supplies is fucking disgusting, and absolutely not justified even if there was a base there as well. You know there are civilians and it’s your responsibility to not harm them on purpose. I don’t even care if you agree it’s a war crime at this point, this is just straight up morals.
And, as it happens, it’s not looking like a military base now is it? Turns out all this suffering could have been for nothing.
I am not a fan of everything Israel has done, but they’re clearly the better people in this scenario.
They are doing a genocide, so “not a fan” seems a bit light, but ok thanks.
By what metric are they better? They have killed many times more innocents and they’re treating war crimes like a fucking bingo card at this point.
Not if it is also a hospital. Then cutting off supplies is fucking disgusting
And necessary. This is why turning hospitals into military bases is a war crime. If you’re offended at military actions taken against hospitals, talk to Hamas about it.
They are doing a genocide
See, you’re deluding yourself into pretending they’re genocidal. That’s the difference here. I live in reality.
Can’t help but notice Israel hasn’t shown any proof yet.
If there was any it would be out almost immediately because of the kickback they’ve gotten about it so far.
Also no they’re not the better perks here, they’ve killed ten times as many civilians as they’ve lost. Think about that. Israel also historically have also used hospitals and schools as bases of operation so the hypocrisy is a bit of a fun hurdle to reach the moral high ground. Operation shark dealt directly with this fact.
Dude they did a fucking video tour of a military base built into a hospital, do you seriously not know anything at all about this topic?
Also no they’re not the better perks here, they’ve killed ten times as many civilians
You say this as of Hamas’s casualty figures they relate via the Gaza health ministry mean anything. Hell, they probably include the people Hamas has killed to prevent them from fleeing the conflict zone.
Jesus christ.
yes, they got him too.
It’s rumored that the USS Liberty was recording communications about mass graves in 1967 when they shot the ship up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
The book Body of Secrets (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Secrets) has interviews corroborating this.
Essentially the Israelis seem like hard asses that don’t care who they kill as long as they get theres. As an american, it’s not like I have a lot of room to speak historically.
