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Israeli soldiers appear to be using the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the Gaza Strip as a br for military operations, and, since March, also a school in the village of Juhor ad Dik, which is located about one kilometer from the border with Israel and was destroyed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, indicated by aerial photographs that the Washington Post published on Friday.

The report states that the satellite imagery documents the construction of earth berms around the hospital, which halted operations early in the war, in late November, and near the school in Juhor ad Dik in the second half of March.

  • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    6 months ago

    Link to what you’re referring to?

    Edit:

    This is who Israel is fighting. Civilian suffering is the point for Hamas.

    GAZA CITY — The emergency room in Shifa Hospital is often a place of gore and despair. On Thursday, it was also a lesson in the way ordinary people are squeezed between suicidal fighters and a military behemoth.

    Dr. Awni al-Jaru, 37, a surgeon at the hospital, rushed in from his home here, dressed in his scrubs. But he came not to work. His head was bleeding, and his daughter’s jaw was broken.

    He said Hamas militants next to his apartment building had fired mortar and rocket rounds. Israel fired back with force, and his apartment was hit. His wife, Albina, originally from Ukraine, and his 1-year-old son were killed.

    “My son has been turned into pieces,” he cried. “My wife was cut in half. I had to leave her body at home.” Because Albina was a foreigner, she could have left Gaza with her children. But, Dr. Jaru lamented, she would not leave him behind.

    A car arrived with more patients. One was a 21-year-old man with shrapnel in his left leg who demanded quick treatment. He turned out to be a militant with Islamic Jihad. He was smiling a big smile.

    “Hurry, I must get back so I can keep fighting,” he told the doctors.

    He was told that there were more serious cases than his, that he needed to wait. But he insisted. “We are fighting the Israelis,” he said. “When we fire we run, but they hit back so fast. We run into the houses to get away.” He continued smiling.

    “Why are you so happy?” this reporter asked. “Look around you.”

    A girl who looked about 18 screamed as a surgeon removed shrapnel from her leg. An elderly man was soaked in blood. A baby a few weeks old and slightly wounded looked around helplessly. A man lay with parts of his brain coming out. His family wailed at his side.

    “Don’t you see that these people are hurting?” the militant was asked.

    “But I am from the people, too,” he said, his smile incandescent. “They lost their loved ones as martyrs. They should be happy. I want to be a martyr, too.”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20230530025152/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/09fighter.html

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      6 months ago

      Man pulls up with a link from 2009 as evidence that Hamas was in this hospital LMAO.

      • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        6 months ago

        This is clearly a straw man argument and, notably, an avoidance of providing a link to further explain what you’re referring to, for some reason.

        As my clearly marked edit says, the link and excerpt provided is meant to demonstrate the type of civilian suffering which is the point for Hamas and was clearly not meant as evidence that Hamas was in “this hospital”. It’s tough to even try to say Hamas was in “this hospital” seeing as you haven’t provided any more context for what you’re referring to. For some reason.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          42·
          6 months ago

          Can you show me the evidence of Hamas using the hospital as a base?

          Look I can do that. Here’s evidence for Nazisrael using the hospital as a military base

          • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            6 months ago

            I’m still not clear on what Israeli strike on a hospital you were originally referring to. Feel free to expand on that at any point.

            Re: This picture: Refer to my original, top-level comment.

            The whole point for keeping military ops out of schools, hospitals, and away from civilians is to not make them a valid target for the opposing force (assuming they abide by these rules, which Hamas does not). If this hospital is now devoid of doctors, patients, and other civilians, what’s the issue? It’s just a building now.

            Your feigned ignorance of how Hamas’ whole goal is to inflict as much harm on their own civilians is tiring and the whole reason I posted that 2009 article.

              • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                6 months ago

                I can see I’m not actually going to get any specifics out of you here.

                I’ll let this exchange speak for itself for those that come by later.

                • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  14·
                  6 months ago

                  Mh interesting so no evidence nor anything of substance like me being able to provide video evidence of israeli soldiers committing the war crimes they are accused of.