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CNN stopped their live blog coverage long ago and is now mostly repeating IDF statements with the occasional update when something involves non Palestinians. The news here also mainly focuses on the hostages and protests for the hostages. It's like Palestinians don't exist.

Protests around the world are still going strong though, And sadly still no improvement.

Big update today with the killing of 'foreign' aid workers and strike on Iranian consulate in Damascas. First more on Al Shifa.


Build in 1946, now completely destroyed. Most likely reason: During the Gaza War (2008–2009), much of the media coverage came from correspondents reporting from the hospital. The IDF started the siege by arresting journalist and destroying media equipment and now bombed a media tent at the next hospital. Secondary objective, shut down health care for good.

‘Gone forever’: Footage shows burned ruins of al-Shifa Hospital

Video shared by the World Health Organisation shows the devastation at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest health facility in Gaza, after Israel’s two-week siege there.

“All the buildings of al-Shifa medical complex were completely destroyed and burned,” says the hospital’s director, Dr Marwan Abu Saadah. “Al-Shifa medical complex is gone forever.”


Al-Shifa Hospital totally destroyed: WHO

Israel’s two-week siege on al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, left it totally nonoperational, says the World Health Organization (WHO). “Destroying al-Shifa means ripping the heart out of the health system,” WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said.

“It was the place people go to for the kind of care that a really good health system provides, that we in all our societies expect to have should we be in need.”

It's the whole neighborhood that is gone


Destroyed buildings surround Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex on Monday


This is unbelievable, IDF acting with impunity

Al-Shifa Hospital siege – Reports of atrocities committed by Israeli forces

There is little that remains of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza which was destroyed by Israeli forces. Now there are reports of heinous war crimes carried out before the Israeli army withdrew from the destroyed hospital.

Decomposing bodies have been found in the bombed-out ruins and witnesses say that civilians were targeted by Israeli forces during their two-week siege of the medical facility.