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[–] b3an@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ambulances and private cars rushed some 350 casualties from the al-Ahli blast to Gaza City’s main hospital, al-Shifa, already overwhelmed with wounded from other strikes, said its director, Mohammed Abu Selmia. The wounded were laid onto bloody floors, screaming in pain.

“We are squeezing five beds into a single tiny room. We need equipment, we need medicine, we need beds, we need anesthesia, we need everything,” Abu Selmia said, warning that the fuel supply for the hospital’s generators will run out Wednesday. “I think Gaza’s medical sector will collapse within hours.”

This is heart wrenching and sickening.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago (58 children)

Assuming Israel is responsible, they have a lot of nerve calling anyone else a terrorist.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (24 children)

The sheer gall to bomb a hospital. Fucking sick. I’ll be calling all my representatives tonight to ask them if they really want to continue to enable these war criminals with military aid. The inhumanity is exhausting

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They know they fucked up. That's why they're spreading FUD about it being a Hamas rocket or a Hamas HQ or whatever.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If Hamas had rockets of this explosive power, they would be launching them at Israel every day.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How much explosive power?

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spoiler: if they have an R next to their name, they most certainly do.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not since I moved thankfully

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[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Story has been updated:

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it had no involvement in an explosion that killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital and that the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike caused the blast, and that it killed some 500 people, many of whom had sought shelter from an ongoing Israeli offensive.

The Israeli military, however, said Palestinian militants had fired a barrage of rockets near the hospital at the time.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Guardian mentioned that this much damage with one rocket would likely go above the usual capabilities of Hamas.

Not saying that it couldn't be that, but certainly something to consider.

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[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On the one hand, bombing a hospital is pretty brazen even for Israel, especially as your most important ally is en route for a visit, and the explanation of a Hamas rocket going astray does seem plausible. On the other hand, I'm not inclined to trust the word of a country that has proudly cut off food and water for 2.2 million people for over a week now. You don't get the benefit of the doubt when your actively committing war crimes. Also it may not have been intentional, a IDF pilot could have just missed a target or gone rogue. I'm sure no UN inspectors will ever be let in to examine the scene to make a determination, so we'll probably never know the truth. It probably doesn't matter much, the dead are dead either way, the grieving families will grieve either way, and all sides of the conflict will believe what they want to further their political ends, including Hezbollah using potentially using this as a justification for a broader conflict. It's just tragedy on top of tragedy.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Israel bombed a Palestinian hospital in 2014, what was their initial response?

The Israeli military denied initial reports that its forces were responsible for the strikes, saying instead that the bombing was the result of rockets misfired by Palestinian militants — while Hamas cast blame back at Israel.

Sound familiar?

Shocker, it came out that they did in fact bomb the hospital and killed children. Israel will always blame Palestine for its mistakes.

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[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is not plausible it is a Hamas rocket.

Only modern munitions have the power to destroy hospitals and kill hundreds of people.

If Hamas had such rockets, they would be launching them at Israel every day.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Photos purportedly from al-Ahli Hospital shared widely on social video showed fire engulfing the building, widespread damage and bodies scattered in the wreckage.

Hamas, which sparked the latest war with an attack last week that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, called Tuesday’s hospital strike “a horrific massacre.” It said in a statement that most of the casualties were displaced families, patients, children and women.

With Israel barring entry of water, fuel and food into Gaza since Hamas’ brutal attack last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken secured an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss creation of a mechanism for delivering aid to the territory’s 2.3 million people.

“The return of the hostages, which is sacred in our eyes, is a key component in any humanitarian efforts,” he told reporters, without elaborating whether Israel was demanding the release of all of the roughly 200 people Hamas abducted before allowing supplies in.

A barrage of strikes crashed into the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, leveling an entire block of homes and causing dozens of casualties among families inside, residents said.

Associated Press journalists Amy Teibel in Jerusalem; Abby Sewell in Beirut; Samy Magdy and Jack Jeffrey in Cairo; and Ashraf Sweilam in el-Arish, Egypt contributed to this report.


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[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All aid, except medical help for their own injured, to israel should be stopped in return to the hospital strike. But it wont happen because the US likes to strike hospitals as well.

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