JERUSALEM (AP) – They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.
Associated PressJERUSALEM – They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.
Medical facilities often come under fire in wars, but combatants usually depict such incidents as accidental or exceptional, since hospitals enjoy special protection under international law. In its yearlong campaign in Gaza, Israel has stood out by carrying out an open campaign on hospitals, besieging and raiding at least 10 of them across the Gaza Strip, some several times, as well as hitting multiple others in strikes.
But the focus on Shifa has overshadowed raids on other facilities. The AP spent months gathering accounts of the raids on al-Awda, Indonesian, and Kamal Adwan Hospitals, interviewing more than three dozen patients, witnesses, and medical and humanitarian workers as well as Israeli officials. As war-wounded poured in, exhausted surgeons were struggling to treat them. No vascular surgeons or neurosurgeons remain north of Gaza City, so the doctors often resort to amputating shrapnel-shattered limbs to save lives.
Dr. Mohammed Obeid, Abu Nujaila's colleague, recalled dodging shellfire inside the hospital complex. Israeli sniper fire killed a nurse and two janitors and wounded a surgeon, hospital officials said.
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