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Mass graves discovered at al-Shifa Hospital and in Beit Lahiya
Two mass graves have been discovered by Gaza’s Health Ministry and the Civil Defence Forces in the north of the Gaza Strip. The first mass grave was discovered at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and the second was found in Beit Lahiya.
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul, reporting from al-Shifa Hospital, said nine bodies were found before the health officials stopped digging, fearing that they could get targeted by the Israeli drones hovering in the skies above them. The uncovered bodies had not fully decomposed, which indicated that they had been killed recently.
Some of the people who had been killed and buried appear to have been patients at the hospital and had medical bandages and catheters attached to their bodies. Family members of the deceased who identified the bodies confirmed that some of those killed were patients. They include an elderly man, a woman, and a man in his 20s.
Doctors and staff from the hospital said that some people were killed outside the main gate (building number 80) of the hospital. Medical staff said they witnessed killings and burials.
In Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, another mass grave containing about 20 decomposed bodies was discovered. Residents said the bodies belong to the Al-Assaf family, and said they were killed during an incursion by the Israeli military forces in the area four months ago.
Hospital patients found in a mass grave with bandages, catheters still attached
Doctors were able to identify these bodies as patients. They still had medical bandages and catheters attached to their bodies. Medical staff inside the hospital confirmed that these people were, in fact, executed by the Israeli military very close to the main gate of al-Shifa Hospital when it was stormed in March.
When the Israeli military stormed it, they destroyed the vast majority of the hospital’s facilities and equipment as well as the buildings in its vicinity, the majority of them residential buildings, where people had been sheltering since the beginning of this war.
In the northern part of the Gaza Strip, 20 more bodies were discovered buried under the dirt and piles of sand. It is believed the killings occurred as people were going through a checkpoint that was set up by the Israeli military during its incursion of the northern part of the Strip.
This is the pattern that we’re seeing; this is not the first time mass graves have been discovered. People have been killed and buried under the dirt or run over by Israeli tanks or bulldozers for the past six months.
Hamas decries Israeli ‘war crimes’ at al-Shifa Hospital as mass grave found
The Palestinian group said the new mass grave discovered at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza is “horrifying”. The group said the mass grave includes “several decomposing bodies” that Israeli forces, using military bulldozers, hid under the rubble before withdrawing from the medical complex earlier this month.
Israeli forces have attacked and besieged the hospital several times since October 7, leaving it largely in ruins. Thousands of medical staff, patients, and displaced families were at the facility during the attacks, with witnesses saying hundreds lost their lives as a result.
The latest discovery indicates that there are “no limits” to what Israeli forces are willing to do, Hamas said. Their crimes are continuing because of the international community’s silence in the face of this “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza, the group added.
“The series of ongoing violations, including the discovery of mass graves in al-Shifa, cases of execution, and the hundreds of bodies that remain under the rubble … are clear and well-documented war crimes,” it said.
Hamas called on the international community to bring those responsible to justice.
Northern Gaza faces ‘unprecedented levels’ of contamination, media office says
Gaza’s media office says some 700,000 people in northern Gaza are facing a health crisis as environmental contamination in the area has reached “unprecedented levels”. With “mountains of waste and hundreds of mass graves”, as well as rubble and debris from the widespread destruction of residential homes and buildings, the office said infectious diseases are rapidly spreading.
The situation is only growing worse as municipal workers still have no access to adequate equipment and tools they need to deal with the “massive amounts of waste and destruction”, the office said.
At least 68 people killed in 24 hours in Israeli attacks across Gaza
Israeli air strikes and shelling have continued across Gaza since early this morning. In the past 24 hours, at least five atrocities were committed across the strip.
They were concentrated in the central area where the Israeli military is still operating aggressively in the northern part of the Nuseirat camp and the area in the southern part of Wadi Gaza – a particular area designated as safe for evacuees and displaced families to move to in order to avoid being bombed and killed.
In the northern part of the city, particularly the Jabalia refugee camp and Jabalia town since the early hours of this morning, we’re looking at constant, nonstop artillery shelling targeting more residential homes.
In the past 24 hours, at least 68 people have been killed, and close to 100 people with different injuries have been transferred, not only to remaining semi-functional hospitals but also to low-capacity operational field hospitals in the central areas and the city of Rafah.
‘We’re on the edge’: Palestinians terrified by Israeli settler violence
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/15/we-are-on-the-edge-palestinians-terrified-by-israeli-settler-violence
The recent settler attacks are part of a broader wave of violence that has soared during Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. The war – launched in response to Hamas’s attack on Israeli military outposts and communities on October 7, which killed 1,139 people – has killed nearly 34,000 Palestinians.
Armed settlers and the Israeli army have also killed 460 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7 while displacing hundreds of people from their homes.
