#GazaUnderAttack | WARCRIME | Israeli tank strikes on Gaza hospital kill 4, scores injured – medics
JULY 21, 2014 Published time: July 21, 2014 12:38
Edited time: July 21, 2014 13:14
Edited time: July 21, 2014 13:14
Four Palestinian’s have been killed and dozens wounded after an Israeli tank shell hit the third floor of Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza, according to a Health Ministry spokesman.
Ashraf Al-Qidra said that the third floor housed an intensive care unit and operating theaters. Other shells had fallen around the hospital, he added, with officials calling on the Red Cross to help evacuate patients.
A doctor at the hospital, Fayez Zidane, told the station that shells hit the third and fourth floor as well as the reception area.
“There is still shelling against the hospital,” he said speaking to AP. He said he found bits of a rocket, presumably from one of the projectiles.
Zidane appealed to the Red Cross and a nearby hospital to send help.
There have been conflicting reports about the number of people injured following the attack. Reuters has put the figure at 16, while AP says 60 have been wounded, including 30 medics.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment. In the past it has accused Hamas Islamist militants of firing rockets from the grounds of Gaza hospitals and of seeking refuge in the buildings.
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Note from occpal
Targeting civlians, hospitals, medics is a warcrime by int’l law.
So far Israel has bombed 4 hospitals, including nurseries, maternaty wards, attacks medics and even kills them. ICU units were bombed and all hospitals suffered attacks to the oxygen units, so those dependent on such can suffocate to death. Surgeries are mostly not able to be performed and one hospital after another is evacuated and leveled to the ground.
via:
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/gazaunderattack-warcrime-israeli-tank-strikes-on-gaza-hospital-kill-4-scores-injured-medics/