Euro-Med Monitor: The occupation bombing of the remaining hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip is a mass execution of the sick and the wounded

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned of the escalation of the genocidal war committed by the Israeli occupation in the stricken Gaza Strip, especially in the Jabalia camp to the north, stressing that targeting the remaining hospitals there constitutes a mass execution of the sick and the wounded.

The Monitor explained in a statement today that the occupation forces’ destruction of hospitals and health facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, and putting the rest of them “which were already partially functioning” completely out of service, means carrying out a mass execution of the sick and the injured, at a time when intense air, ground and sea bombardment is escalating on Jabalia camp and its surroundings for 13 days consecutive. The Israeli bombardment campaign has led to horrific massacres against civilians there.

In this context, the Monitor transmitted the testimony of the doctor at Al-Awda Hospital in the camp, Fadi Al-Za’anin, who confirmed that the occupation forces imposed a siege on the hospital, then its artillery fired a shell at one of its buildings, then stormed into its courtyard and arrested one of its staff, even though he was elderly.

The occupation forces took the patients out after exposing their bodies.  Dr. Al-Za’anin pointed to the difficult condition of the patients who remained there, including two cases of amputation and a caesarean, while another testimony by Muhammad Al-Derini, “who accompanied his wounded brother in the hospital,” confirmed the suffering, lack of water and food, and the lack of treatment during the siege period.

The Monitor confirmed that the pictures it viewed and the preliminary information it received from its field team indicate that the occupation, during the past days, almost completely destroyed Jabalia camp, which was considered as one of the most densely populated places in the world. The destruction affected all aspects of life there, including shelter centers and tents.

Residents of the camp have been displaced and more than 400 homes have been wiped out as preliminary statistics indicated, while the percentage of destruction inflicted on Jabalia and its camp since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip was about 75-85 percent.

NR