Israeli troops entered Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital in a ‘targeted operation’ at 3am and remained there well into the afternoon

The end of the article jumped out at me:

The Palestinian health ministry said 40 patients died on Tuesday, after five days without the fuel needed to power generators that fed dialysis machines and other vital medical equipment. The hospital had also run out of clean water, and doctors said they were subsisting on dates to survive as food supplies dwindled to nothing.

Corpses were piled in front of the hospital, with staff too terrified to move between buildings. The UN’s office for humanitarian affairs said staff at al-Shifa, for decades the linchpin of Gaza’s medical system, had begun preparations for a mass grave to entomb 180 bodies in front of the facility, as there was no way for them to leave in order to bury the dead.

  • queermunist she/herOP
    -8•7 months ago

    That’s clearly not inside the hospital? It honestly just looks like the IDF dug into a nearby basement. It definitely doesn’t look like a tunnel people were using.

      • queermunist she/herOP
        -8•7 months ago

        Well they aren’t allowing independent experts to analyze it so its up to us to unpack IDF propaganda.

        Use your brain - why didn’t they put a camera inside the tunnel to show it off? Why are we forced to look at a pile of dirt around a dark hole and just take their word that this is a Hamas tunnel? Surely it would have been useful to see the secret underground Hamas headquarters!

        • @girlfreddyEnglish
          4•7 months ago

          The BBC agrees with you.

          The evidence Israel has produced, so far, I do not believe to be convincing in terms of the kind of rhetoric Israelis were using about the set-up at the hospital, which suggested this was a nerve centre for the Hamas operation.

          If there was a nerve centre there - and there has been speculation about that possibility since 2014 - then the Israelis have not yet revealed definitive evidence of its existence to the outside world.

          What has been recovered includes some Kalashnikov rifles - these are common in the Middle East - a tunnel entrance, of which there are many in Gaza, some military uniforms and a booby-trapped vehicle.

          The discovery of and evidence for a major Hamas headquarters underneath the hospital is of course still possible.

          The hospital was, after all, built by the Israelis in the 1970s during its full control of the territory, and it is a large site which will take time to thoroughly search.

          It’s well known that the Israeli architects who designed Al-Shifa included extensive basements.