The wounded, sick and displaced in all Gaza hospitals are under the threat of Israeli bombardment
Occupied Al-Quds (ST) – The deliberate bombing and attack on hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are gathered is a grave violation of international humanitarian law, the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and a “war crime” under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
In 1970, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2675, which states “Places or areas designed for sole protection of civilians, such as hospital zones or similar refuges, should not be the object of military operations. Civilian population or individual members therefore, should not be the object of reprisals, forcible transfers or other assaults.”
Since the beginning of its aggression on Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation has bombed Beit Hanoun Hospital, which is the only one in the city, Al Karama Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and Al-Durrah Children’s Hospital in eastern Gaza with internationally banned white phosphorus bombs, and put them out of service.
On the 17th of this month, the occupation committed a brutal massacre in Al-Mamadani (Baptist) Hospital in Gaza, claiming the lives of 500 martyrs and injured hundreds others, most of them were displaced people who had taken refuge there from the occupation’s bombing.
The occupation continued to target hospitals with bombing, preventing the entry of fuel, medicines, and medical supplies into them, causing 12 hospitals and 32 primary care centers to go out of service, while 116 medical staff were martyred, and 25 ambulances were destroyed.
This led to the collapse of the health system in Gaza Strip, and the inability to provide treatment to more than 20,000 wounded people, as well as thousands of patients.
A new massacre against hospitals that the occupation threatens to commit is in Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza, which treats hundreds of wounded, and also shelters 12,000 displaced people who have taken refuge there.
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Sunday that it had received strong threats to immediately evacuate Al-Quds hospital in preparation for its bombing, indicating that the hospital’s surroundings have been subjected to continuous raids since the morning, which led to the destruction of a number of buildings surrounding it for a distance of 50 meters.
Najla Khoury