Hit by blockade and airstrikes, Gaza's hospitals in crisis - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Breaking point... a wounded Palestinian man is carried on a stretcher into a hospital in Rafah. (AFP: Said Khatib)
Palestinian patients wearing masks, to protect themselves from smoke and dust caused by Israeli shelling, crowd at Gaza City's southern al-Quds hospital corridors, after a section of the medical facility was hit by Israeli fire. About 500 people including patients were huddled in a Gaza City hospital that suffered a "direct hit" in an Israeli air strike Thursday, the international Red Cross said.(AFP/Mehdi Fedouach)
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Isreal has proven over and over again that they are targeting humanity itself. Hamas was just an excuse used to carry out their monstrosities. The majority of their victims are children and womwen.
ReplyDeleteI do not blame Isreal for what it is doing because this is what they have been doing since they existed (thire history proves it), however I blame the muslims who are watchign in silence and not doing anything about it. MOst of the aids that got to Gaza in the first days were from the Westren part of the world, they even sent a medical team. Where are we in all of this? Oh, I forgot, we have to hold a meeting to disagree!!!
I do not know what is happening to the world. Children and innocent
ReplyDeletepeople are dying and doctors and people from the international red
cross are being targeted. These are people who want to help cure
wonds, who want to alleviate suffering and they are there to help the
wounded. This is against the Geneva Conventions and against the
International Humanitarian Law. Sick people must be helped. How can
the world stand silent, how can the Western and the Arab world remain
silent. It is not enought to send aids. It is a start but the sight of
misery and death that is unjustified is horrific. I will not go into
political issues since this is not the purpose of your blog, which by
the way, I think is great and we need one like this in the Arab World!
Rights group accuses Israeli army of violating medical ethics
ReplyDeletewww.chinawiew.cn 2009-03-23
Special Report: Palestine-Israel Conflicts
JERUSALEM, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army had violated medical ethics during the Operation Cast Lead in Gaza Strip, according to a report released Monday by the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) group.
The report quoted figures issued by the World Health Organization, which showed 16 Palestinian medical personnel were killed by the fire from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the offensive and that 25 were wounded while performing their duties.
The report claimed that IDF attacked 34 medical care facilities, including eight hospitals.
In several instances, the army did not evacuate besieged and wounded families and prevented treatment and the evacuation of the wounded, the report continued.
The PHR had filed a petition against IDF in January, which was dismissed by the Israeli High Court. Israeli army said that it was still looking into the allegations.
"At the conclusion of the fighting, the claims were investigated (by the army) in a thorough manner, as were many other issues, in the framework of an expert investigation," the IDF spokesman's office said in a statement.
Soldiers who participated in Gaza offensive was quoted by local daily Ha'aretz last week that Israeli army killed Palestinian civilians and intentionally destroyed their property during the Operation Cast Lead.
According to statistics released by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 1,434 people were killed during the 22-day offensive in the coastal enclave, including 960 civilians.