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Sun 24 Mar 2024 1:19 pm - Jerusalem Time

Gaza: “Raping, killing, and burning entire families.” Shocking testimonies from Al-Shifa Hospital

Jamila Al-Hassi, the Palestinian woman trapped in the vicinity of the Shifa Complex, revealed that the Israeli occupation army forces raped women and killed them in the vicinity of the medical complex, and forced 65 families to leave the vicinity of the complex.


Al-Hassi said in statements to Al Jazeera Network that the Israeli forces burned and killed entire families, and also burned a building in which they were holed up.


“The Israeli forces raped and killed women, and burned and killed entire families.” The Palestinian Jamila Al-Hassi, who was besieged in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex, testifies to Al-Jazeera.


She appealed to the Red Cross to provide water for children and the sick, saying: “We are stranded amid the continuing Israeli bombing.”


She confirmed that the Red Cross does not exist and cannot provide them with water.


She added that the children cannot even find salt water and have not found food or water for 6 days.


A video clip spread across social media platforms showing a group of naked Palestinians, after the Israeli occupation army released them from Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings, and forced them to flee to areas south of the Gaza Strip.


In the clip, which was taken by a Palestinian from the window of his house, a number of Palestinians appeared walking with difficulty on a sandy street, heading towards the southern areas of the Gaza Strip.


The clip also shows naked Palestinians dragging a man in a wheelchair with difficulty.


After Israeli army killed entire families inside Al-Shifa Hospital, it shortly evacuated a number of the besieged, almost "naked" people, west of Gaza City, heading towards the center of the Gaza Strip.


For its part, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said that it documented several identical testimonies regarding the Israeli occupation army’s deliberate use of Palestinian civilians as human shields and placing them in conditions that posed a threat to their lives, to secure and protect its forces and military operations inside and around the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, which has been continuing since dawn last Monday. .

A statement by the Observatory confirmed that the testimonies it collected show that the Israeli forces used sick and displaced civilians inside the Shifa Complex as human shields and exploited them, whether to fortify their military operations inside the hospital, or to form a cover behind their forces and military vehicles, or to send them under threat to homes and residential buildings in the vicinity of the medical complex. To ask its residents to evacuate it, before storming it, arresting some of its residents, and then destroying many of it.

Rami Abdo, a Palestinian academic and human rights activist, told Anadolu Agency: “The Israeli army committed horrific massacres and atrocities in Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings.”

Abdo added: "The Israeli army illegally used Palestinians as human shields, forced them to take off their clothes and forced them to displace."

He continued: "The army killed women, men and children, which constitutes a flagrant violation of all international laws and norms."

Abdo continued, saying: “The Israeli forces also burned homes in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, and set fire to departments inside the hospital itself.”

For the sixth day in a row, the Israeli army continues to storm “Al-Shifa Hospital,” which housed more than 7,000 patients and displaced persons. It carries out a massive campaign of killing and arrests among the displaced inside the hospital and bombs the homes surrounding it, leaving dozens dead and wounded.


This is the second time that the Israeli forces have stormed the hospital since the beginning of the war on Gaza on October 7. They stormed it on November 16, after besieging it for a week, during which its courtyards, parts of its buildings, medical equipment, and the electricity generator were destroyed.

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Gaza: “Raping, killing, and burning entire families.” Shocking testimonies from Al-Shifa Hospital