#al-Shifa

[limelocked]

(later via al jazeera 09:35 GMT taken from a longer update from al-shifa)

[hongtonie]

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[vyorei]

Timestamp: 21:25 pm on the 31st of October 2023.

Here is an update of the situation

[originalleftist]

At least 30 premature babies have been evacuated from al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza to Egypt.

According to some accounts, hospital staff took turns holding the babies to provide them with body heat to keep them alive after they ran out of power for the incubators. They kept 30 premature babies alive, under bombardment and gunfire, while dealing with God knows how many other suffering and dying patients.

That is a kind of heroism no person should ever have to show. A heroism far more worthy than the warriors and rich men who usually get remembered in history books, and have monuments built to their honour.

[news4dzhozhar]

So is Israel going to claim that the World Health Organization investigators now on the scene at Al-Shifa are lying too? Lemme guess, they're secretly Hamas or antisemitic - or both.

[bakrishna]

[spookyabuki]

Israel has convinced itself that Hamas has underground headquarters beneath the hospitals, a claim refuted not only by Hamas and the hospitals themselves but by foreign doctors with intimate familiarity with them. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who has worked in Gaza for years and is presently stuck in Egypt trying, at 76 years of age, to return to Gaza to help, utterly rejected the Israeli claim about al-Shifa. “For sixteen years, I have walked around freely inside the hospital complex. We have heard these claims since 2009 and they have been threatening to bomb al-Shifa since then without offering any proof.” Now they have bombed it at last.

—Saree Makdisi, from "Physical Destruction in Whole or in Part," in N+1

[nando161mando]

"Gaza: According to our colleagues working in Al-Shifa hospital, the hospital will soon run out of fuel and thus electricity. This means that all the patients who are today in intensive care units or connected to ventilators, and the babies who are in incubators, will die due to the lack of electricity.

It is critical that fuel be allowed into Gaza, as this is essential for lifesaving hospital operations as well as the availability of clean water."

[the-peruvian-whovian]

According to Google Maps, Al-Shifa Hospital used to look like this 💔

[vyorei]

On Israel's long history targeting medical complexes

I'm waiting on confirmation of a report that the IOF has stormed Al-Shifa Hospital due to another source stating such

[elizabethskipp]

CE 2024, 03, 28: IDF launches huge offensive on Al-Shifa Medical Complex

The IDF turned Al-Shifa Hospital into a military barracks and declared the surrounding area a military zone after massacring the people and initiating non-stop air and artillery bombardment. Source: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (2024). In a week, Israeli army executes 13 children in and near Al-Shifa Hospital. [online] Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Available at:…

[news4dzhozhar]

[mysharona1987]

You just know the NYT has a “style guide” for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone there should get fed up and leak it.

[totallynotcensorship]

there are NO tunnels under al shifa hospital

the IDF is LYING to excuse their war crimes

don't stop talking about palestine

[loudlylovingreview]

Jake Johnson: UN Rights Chief Demands International Probe of Mass Graves Near Gaza Hospitals

“Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law,” said Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights. TEHRAN, Apr. 23 (MNA) – A mass grave with nearly 300 bodies were uncovered at a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Gaza Civil Defense workers said Monday. . The United Nations’ human rights chief on Tuesday called for…