The newspaper explained that it conducted an investigation that lasted for months, during which it collected accounts of raids on hospitals Return The Indonesian and Kamal Adwan conducted interviews with patients, eyewitnesses, medical and humanitarian workers, and Israeli officials.
Although Israel claims that its attacks on hospitals are for military necessity because “agitation Hospitals are used as command and control bases to plan attacks.” However, according to the investigation, Israel did not provide any evidence regarding these allegations.
The Israeli military spokesman said Daniel Hagari Last January: “If we intend to destroy the military infrastructure in the North, we must destroy the philosophy of (use of) hospitals.”
However, the investigation is pending Israel It did not provide any significant evidence of the presence of Hamas in the hospitals, and the newspaper submitted to the Israeli military spokesman’s office a file of the incidents it committed. Israeli army Quoting people who were interviewed, but he refused to comment on them.
This comes at a time when Israel is still attacking hospitals in the north Gaza It besieged 3 of them and put them in the line of fire, namely Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and the Indonesian, and deliberately targeted hospitals in general with a high intensity, which is rare in modern wars, according to the investigation.
According to the investigation, although hospitals enjoy special protection under… International law However, Israel is launching an open campaign against hospitals and raided at least 10 of them throughout the Gaza Strip, in addition to directing military strikes against them.
Israel twice raided Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and produced an animated film depicting it as a main base for Hamas, but did not provide evidence of this.
The Israeli army deliberately fired shells at hospitals, stormed them with bulldozers, arrested medical teams, crushed the tents of displaced people in hospitals, and humiliated patients and medical teams without providing any evidence of military activities to justify what it was doing, in a deliberate targeting of health care systems and collective punishment against the Palestinians.
Although hospitals are often referred to as being linked to Hamas’s underground networks, the army showed only one tunnel opening out of all the hospitals it raided – an opening leading to the ground floor. Al-Shifa Hospital.
In a report last month, a UN commission of inquiry determined that “Israel carried out a coordinated policy of destruction Health care system In Gaza.”
She described Israeli measures in hospitals as “collective punishment against the Palestinians in Gaza.”