Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital also killed 16-year-old boy
The Israeli army attacked the second floor of the Nasser Hospital, which is located in Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas, was actually receiving treatment in the hospital for previous injuries from Israeli attacks. Along with Barhoum, a 16-year-old Palestinian was also killed in the same attack.
We saw the hospital burning with flames as an Al Jazeera Arabic reporter prepared to go live in front of the building. According to doctors in Nasser Hospital, the department that was hit went out of service because of the massive destruction and the fire, which took them hours to put out.
At least eight other Palestinians were wounded in this attack and all of the victims were people who were receiving treatment for previous injuries.
Hospitals across the Gaza Strip are overwhelmed. There are no medical supplies or medicine as the Israeli forces continue to close the border crossing for 21 days now. The situation is also escalating in different parts of the Gaza Strip, especially Beit Layhia in the north and Rafah in the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
‘You don’t bomb a hospital no matter what’
Here’s more from Sidhwa, a volunteer surgeon at Nasser Hospital. He told Al Jazeera that protecting hospitals during war is one of the oldest provisions of international law.
“Benjamin Netanyahu has been ill recently. Well, he stands accused of genocide. Nobody thinks Hamas can bomb a hospital because Benjamin Netanyahu happens to go there. That’s crazy,” Sidhwa said.
“That’s completely insane. You don’t bomb hospitals. Everybody knows that,” he said.
“The first Geneva Convention was signed in 1864, and that was the first creation of international law, at least in the West, and it’s specifically about not obstructing the work of physicians and nurses,” Sidhwa continued.
“This is barbarity. This isn’t how reasonable civilised people behave. It doesn’t matter what they were trying to do. You don’t bomb a hospital no matter what, that’s not how it works.”
A view of the destroyed emergency department of Nasser Hospital after the Israeli attack, in Khan Younis, Gaza on Sunday
