1 April 2024

After the retreat of the IDF, the full scale of the massacre at Al Shifa Hospital has been revealed. Al-Shifa Medical Complex Witnesses One of the Largest Massacres in Palestinian History

Al-Shifa Medical Complex: The devastating aftermath following the IOF retreat.

The front of Al Shifa Hospital as it stands now

1 April: Al-Shifa Hospital Entered By Journalists After Israel Withdrew Its Forces (2 week siege). Decomposing bodies, with signs of torture & hands bound everywhere.

Wounded Palestinians remained trapped for two weeks in inhumane conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital, under occupation fire and brutality.

The Israeli army killed Dr. Ahmed Al-Maqadma, a plastic surgery specialist, and his mother inside Al-Shifa Hospital. Their family only discovered this after the army withdrew from the hospital this morning.

1 April: The Shifa hospital massacre is worse than the 1948 Nakba’s Deir Yassin & Tantoura massacres combined Over 300 women, children & men slaughtered. Many zip-tied & executed, some flattened by tanks, burned, or hacked into pieces by missiles, skeletal remains & body parts everywhere – [via Muhamed Shehada]

Al Shifa Hospital – or what remains of it

Ramy Abdou on X: Since morning, this scene has unfolded at Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings. It’s a massacre of unprecedented scale, annihilating not just lives, but also the very fabric of the environment. The number of victims is beyond quantification. The casualties exceed those of the combined massacres of Deir Yassin, Khan Younis 1956, and Tantura

Unfathomable horror

Video shows the moment Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul was able to recover the body of his brother Khaled, who was killed in Israeli bombardment near al-Shifa Hospital three days ago

3 April: Headed by Dr. Marwan Abu Saada, the Hospital Director of Al-Shifa Hospital, doctors from the hospital improvise an 8 minute press conference in front of the destroyed hospital.

Al-Shifa Medical Complex witnesses one of the largest massacres in Palestinian history

Written by Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu @EuroMedHR

Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific military operation in Gaza City over the course of the past two weeks, killing and attacking Palestinians regardless of their identity, gender, age, or health status. Though the exact number of casualties from the atrocity is still unknown, preliminary reports suggest that over 1,500 Palestinians have been killed, injured, or are reported missing as a result of the massacre at Al-Shifa, with women and children making up the majority of the casualties. Euro-Med Monitor is able to confirm from testimonies that hundreds of dead bodies, including some with their heads and limbs severed, have been discovered both inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex and in the hospital’s surrounding area.

The massacre claimed the lives of at least 22 patients who were killed in their hospital beds during the Israeli siege of the Medical Complex,amid the willful deprivation of their access to food, medical care, and supplies. Israel’s army also purposefully prevented relief teams and representatives of international organisations from entering Al-Shifa to carry out humanitarian missions or evacuations, plus purposefully cleared the Complex of all working personnel—particularly medical personnel—either by forced relocation, execution, or arrest. The whereabouts of some of these individuals are still unknown.

Al-Shifa Medical Complex is currently out of service due to the Israeli army bombing and setting fire to every one of its buildings, including the mortuary and all internal and external courtyards and corridors.

The attack on Al-Shifa Medical Complex is the most visible aspect yet of Israel’s systematic and carefully-crafted plan to destroy and besiege the Gaza Strip’s health sector, bring it to the brink of collapse, and deny the Palestinian population any chance at survival or medical care.

Members of the Israeli army forced more than 25,000 Palestinian civilians to evacuate their homes in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex. These forced evacuations occurred after Israel committed horrendous crimes against local families, including killing, targeting, besieging, and starving them, as well as arbitrary arrests and destroying and burning homes and civilian objects. According to initial estimates, the Israeli army demolished and set ablaze over 1,200 housing units in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

At dawn on Monday, the Israeli soldiers and vehicles withdrew from the Medical Complex, which is considered the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip. The Complex housed three specialised hospitals with a combined clinical capacity of 800 beds: the Surgery Hospital, the Internal Medicine Hospital, and the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital.

Built on a 42,000-square-metre plot, the Complex housed multiple buildings, some with multiple stories, and provided coverage for the Gaza Governorate and the Gaza Strip as a whole.

The massacre at Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the systematic and widespread targeting of civilians and civilian objects, i.e. the targeting of what is left of the health system in the Gaza Strip, puts thousands of sick and injured civilians, displaced families, medical teams, and journalists at risk of being directly targeted, depriving the population of its civilian status and severing families from one another.

These crimes are further proof of the genocide that Israel has been committing against the Palestinian people in the Strip for the past six months. The Israeli army committed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex massacre with the utmost disregard for international humanitarian law, particularly its rules pertaining to distinction, proportionality, and military necessity; respect for the unique protections enjoyed by civilian hospitals and medical teams; protection for civilians; protection for the sick and wounded.

6:12 AM · Apr 1, 2024

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2 April: Dr. Ypeng Ge on targeting aid and health workers as well as UN vehicles

18 April: Government media in Gaza: Crews recovered 30 martyrs who were buried in two cemeteries in front of the emergency and kidney departments, and the occupation army deliberately hid the bodies, buried them deep in sand, and dumped waste on them.
🔴 The fate of about 1,000 medical personnel and journalists who were in the Shifa Complex is still unknown.

Israelis congratulating themselves and Americans in denial

Israel’s Eylon Levy denies any massacre at Al Shifa Hospital

Sky News Military analyst Sean Bell: “Hamas deny they were using the hospital for any sort of cover, but its very hard to imagine why the IDF would spend 2 weeks clearing an area like that if there wasn’t anything in there”