On October 17, a massive strike was carried out on the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. At the moment, the death toll varies from 300 to 600, more than 300 injured, and there is a real humanitarian catastrophe in the country.
Another, the main hospital in Gaza, Al-Shifa, was already overflowing with the wounded from other strikes, but the wounded from the attack on Al-Ahli were taken to it – surgeons had to perform operations on the floor and in the halls, mostly without anesthesia, according to France 24.
“We need equipment, we need medicines, we need beds, we need anesthesia, we need everything” – Director of Al-Shifa Abu Selmiya.
The head of the Red Cross Organization said that “what happened at the Al-Ahly Arab hospital is horrific,” and also called on “all parties to put an end to human suffering” and “provide free humanitarian access.” The World Health Organization “strongly condemns the attack on the Arab Al-Ahli hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.”
Al Jazeera posted an investigative article in which they stated that “based on a detailed review of all the videos [of live filming], Sanada analysts conclude that the flare, which Israel attributes to a misfire, actually corresponds to how Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.” and destroyed it in the air.” However, Israel claims that the bombing of the hospital was the result of a rocket attack by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Both sides blame each other.
The Guardian claims that there is no conclusive evidence to be sure either way.
According to the US government, Israel is not responsible for the attack on Al-Ahli.
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry Ayman Safadi: “No one believes this story in this part of the world. The only way people could stick to a different version is to conduct an independent international investigation of the tragedy with impeccable evidence that it was not Israel.”
Opinions differ, meetings are held. Meanwhile, hundreds of civilians in both Israel and Palestine are being killed by shelling and bombs.
