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(2,561 posts)Seems you will never admit Israel war crimes.
Slaughtering over 50,000 civilians in Gaza
this is completely genocide and ethnic cleansing
. attacked babies, children, women, the elderly, the disabled, hospitals, ambulances, medics, schools, teachers, residential complexes, worship places
.You have destroyed the international rules of the game, insulted the authority of the UN, torn apart the sense of justice, and hurt human values, and tarnished the face of human civilization."
- Sarbini Abdul Murad, head of Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) Indonesia, Director of Indonesia Gaza hospital, in a letter to Biden dated Nov 20, 2023
From older UK news report
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Meanwhile, a doctor from north London, who is currently working in Gaza, claimed the Israeli IDF briefing was an "outlandish excuse" to target hospitals.
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah said: "At the end of the day, what they need to be reminded of, continuously, by everybody, and press included, is that the targeting of any hospital is a war crime, regardless of what outlandish excuses they might provide."
Asked if it was possible to evacuate a hospital like Shifa, he said: "How do you evacuate 1,700 critically injured patients? 150 ventilated patients?
"How do you evacuate over 100 patients with burns over 40% of their body surface area? And where do you evacuate them? And why should you?
"International humanitarian law was created to protect hospitals, protect them against this attack and this idea that if you tell people that you're going to commit a war crime against them, somehow it becomes less of a war crime. It is a war crime."
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