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Why does CNN keep repeating this lie in every article about casualties in Gaza
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military “does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties including providing early warning before attack, safe passage corridors and designated safer zones.
“Hamas targets Israeli civilians and embeds itself in Palestinian civilian neighborhoods, using Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages as human shields,” the office added.
I guess that gets added by the IDF censor after running it through their office.
UN Human Rights Office: Israeli attacks placing civilians at serious risk in Deir el-Balah
The UN Human Rights Office in Occupied Palestinian Territory says it is deeply concerned that Israeli forces “have placed civilian lives at serious risk by ordering residents from various parts of Middle Gaza to relocate to Deir el-Balah – while continuing to conduct air strikes on the city”.
“The UN Human Rights Office has received reports that during the last ten days, four individual strikes in Deir el-Balah killed more than 40 Palestinians. It is clear – as the UN has repeatedly stressed – that there is no safe place in Gaza,” it said in a statement.
WHO chief says he is ‘appalled’ by strike on Gaza ambulance crew
World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that he is “appalled” by reports from the Palestine Red Crescent Society that an Israeli strike targeting one of its ambulances killed four medical workers and two patients.
“Violence and attacks on health and civilians must end,” the WHO leader said in a social media post on Wednesday, although the statement does not name Israel as the attacker.
https://x.com/PalestineRCS/status/1745151413280518375
Israel steps up strikes on Rafah
Israel has continued to hammer southern Gaza, despite its status as a so-called “safe” section of the enclave currently sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians.
“In the last hour, more attacks have been carried out against the Rafah district in southern Gaza, where farmland has been hit that was sheltering displaced evacuees,” Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Rafah. “Five Palestinians were reported killed, including four children, in that air strike. This is part of an ongoing series of attacks on the south,” he added.
Palestinians flee days of Israeli attacks at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
As shelling intensified and got closer and closer to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, patients, displaced people and doctors there worried more and more about their safety. Then unmanned Israeli quadcopters started shooting at anything that moved outside the building, sending families scrambling to dismantle their tents and flee for their lives.
Israeli tanks had reached the entrance of the Maghazi refugee camp by then, and the Israeli army had announced that the area around the hospital had become a theatre of operations. There would be no safety inside the medical facility for the tens of thousands of Palestinians sheltering there. They had to start fleeing for their lives, to get themselves and their families to safety.
"Nothing had prepared me," British surgeon says about treating severely wounded children in central Gaza
Nick Maynard still remembers treating the little boy from the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. He found the 6-year-old on the floor of the emergency ward of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.
“He was semi-conscious with an open chest wound, horrific burns to the body, and no one had seen him. He'd just been deposited on the floor, and he was moribund,” the British surgeon, who worked in the hospital until he says he was forced to leave under the shadow of intensifying Israeli attacks, told CNN. “We subsequently found out that most of his family had been killed,” he said.
Maynard has recounted the daily horror of working at the hospital: Scores of displaced civilians covering every inch of the medical facility, hundreds of wounded people – mainly children – arriving every day with traumatic burns, missing limbs and shrapnel injuries to the chest and abdomen.
Leading a five-member emergency team of clinicians, he worked with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) from December 26 to January 5. Maynard, who has been coming to Gaza for 14 years, told CNN the overcrowding in and around the hospital in Deir al-Balah, one of the last remaining functioning hospitals in the enclave, was like “something I’ve never, ever seen before.”
“When you're dealing with acutely ill patients like that, you have to have a really comprehensive triage system where you can prioritize, and that system collapsed completely,” he said on Tuesday, speaking from the Egyptian capital Cairo.
The ratio of doctors to patients spiraled, as medical workers who were volunteering at the hospital increasingly fled south after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders. In Al-Aqsa hospital, many of the patients were refugees from local camps including Al-Maghazi, Al-Bureij and Nuseirat, in what Maynard called “the clearest evidence you could ever want that there was an indiscriminate slaughter of people.”
Maynard said most patients arrived at Al-Aqsa with “dirty wounds” after bomb blasts had pelted fallen glass, gravel, dust and dirt into their injuries. Rampant shortages of painkillers, drinkable water, and medical equipment including gloves, and skin staple removers meant “the wound infection rate was stratospheric.”
Some patients suffered blast injuries where shrapnel passed through multiple parts of the body, damaging the liver, the spleen, the stomach and bowel, while others sustained internal bleeding in the lungs. Worst of all, Maynard said, was the sheer number of Palestinians, mainly children, arriving with traumatic burns and amputations.
“(We saw) the most horrific burns, literally burned down to the bones, some of them,” Maynard said. “My colleagues in ER particularly saw people coming in with legs hanging off, or arms hanging off.”
He still thinks of the little boy he found on the floor at the hospital. The kid was just one of many orphaned by the war and coming in with no family, “screaming for their parents” who had been killed.“He was alive when we left, but I don't know whether he survived,” Maynard said.
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