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#Gaza: UN experts point to evidence of genocide in the making, call for @UN protective presence in besieged enclave. “Failure to implement #CeasefireNowInGaza risks situation spiralling towards genocide conducted with 21st Century methods of warfare”: https://t.co/rdLSklxzj3
3-year-old Ahmad Shabat lost his legs in an Israeli air attack outside a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp that killed his uncle https://t.co/gac4XWL9Xw
Catastrophe unfolding now at al-Shifa hospital: I summarize comments of hospital director Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic about 30 minutes ago:
There are about 7,000 people under total siege inside al-Shifa compound, including 650 injured people, 45 dialysis patients and 36 premature babies.
A few hours ago one dialysis patient died and 4 are at imminent risk of death because no power for dialysis machines. Three premature babies died in recent days. Two injured persons died in recent hours due to lack of treatment.
There is no water, fuel or electricity. Israel broke the main water line into the hospital. There is no purified water to make the special formula for the babies, so they are using ordinary water and some have become sick with diarrhea, infections, fever.
There is no food. Children are starving and distressed. There is no medicine and the wounds of injured people are becoming horribly infected, some with maggots.
Hospital administrators tried to send a delegation to the occupation forces to ask for food, fuel, medicine and safe evacuation of the sick and injured but the Israelis refused to to talk to them.
The hospital is besieged from all sides by tanks and bulldozers. The bulldozers are destroying areas around the compound, but no one can see clearly what they are doing. Anyone who tries to move between hospital buildings is shot at by snipers or drones. There are hundreds of soldiers in the hospital compound searching all over and causing severe damage to hospital premises and equipment.
In the 48 hours the occupation forces have been inside the hospital or on its grounds not a single shot has been fired at them.
No one can leave the hospital or enter it. The situation is disastrous not just for people in Shifa but for anyone in Gaza City who is injured or becomes ill, because no one can reach the hospital and the hospital can't do anything for them anyway. Anyone who has a heart attack or a stroke at home will die.
Dr. Abu Salmiya says "We hold the world responsible" for what he calls a genocide. "We are waiting for slow death."
it is now confirmed. gaza is cut off from the rest of the world. full communication and internet blackout. i tried to call my family several times today. the last time i tried, i got an automated message that said, 'all connection with gaza has now been cut off'. ceasefire. now.
How can anyone continue to trust statements from the Israeli army?
1. They said they found a paper with “Hamas terrorist names” in a hospital - the paper had days of the week written on it in Arabic…Monday, Tuesday…etc
2. They said they’re “sending incubators” to hospital, knowing full well the issue is not lack of incubators, it’s the army’s prevention of fuel to run them and the whole hospital. They let 3 premature babies die, and dozens of other ICU patients too. They also bombed the maternity room in that same hospital, said it wasn’t them, then @nytimes confirmed it was an Israeli shell.
3. They showed a fake video of a nurse in a hospital in Gaza saying “hamas is not letting them leave”, it was later uncovered that the woman was an Israeli actor. Video was proven to be staged.
4. The said they helped a 79 year old man get safe passage, his family confirmed he was shot with two bullets in his back by a sniper, and k!lled.
5. They said they targeted a car with terrorists in Lebanon, it had three little girls and their mom and grandmother. Only the mothers survived.
And there are so many more examples.
Either they’re the most incompetent propagandists in history, or they’re producing stuff for an audience they know is ignorant enough to drink the kool aid time and time again.
Under Int'l Law,Israel has the right to PROTECT itself,not to WAGE WAR (i.e. self-defense under art 51 UNCharter) agst the people it has kept under belligerent occupation since'67. Gaza IS "occupied" given Israel's effective control,regardless of Hamas' existence.
ICJ (2004):👇