[News] 100 Israeli doctors call for bombing of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

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100 Israeli doctors call for bombing of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
Al Mayadeen English - November 5, 2023
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Israeli doctors are calling for the murder of innocent civilians and the
committing of war crimes under the guise of fighting the Palestinian
Resistance.
[image: ea7c3345-111a-4dbc-9f26-2142a6b30830.jpg]

   - A Palestinian wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is
   brought to a treatment room of al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza,
   occupied Palestine, October 31, 2023. (*AP*)

A hundred Israeli doctors have signed a petition calling for the
destruction of al-Shifa hospital
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gazas-al-shifa-hospital-faces-imminent-fuel-depletion:-msf>
in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli occupation embarks on that exact journey.

The petition, titled "Doctors for the rights of [Israeli] soldiers," calls
for the bombing of a Palestinian hospital housing thousands of refugees
<https://english.almayadeen.net/latestnews/2023/10/27/hamas:-more-than-40000-citizens-are-taking-refuge-at-al-shif>
who are seeking shelter there because, generally, bombing hospitals is not
allowed under international law, though "Israel" has proven time and time
again that it has no regard for such stipulations.
Gazans 'brought their destruction upon themselves'

The Israeli doctors see that Palestinian hospitals have become a legitimate
target for the Israeli occupation forces, upholding the narrative that
Palestinian Resistance groups are using hospitals for protection.

"They built terrorist headquarters inside the hospitals with the
understanding that no harm would come to them," the petition says about
Hamas. "That murderous terrorist organization spares no means and brutally
commits murder and unprecedented atrocities against people, women and
children - therefore any place where its people hide and/or is used for
terrorist activity is a legitimate target for destruction - even if it is
houses patients.

"Whoever integrates terrorism into hospitals must understand that he has no
safe place and grab on to the horns of the altar," the letter continued,
referencing Kings 2:28.

"The residents of Gaza saw fit to turn the hospitals into terrorist nests
in an attempt to take advantage of the morality of the West; they are the
ones who brought their destruction upon themselves," the doctors added,
using the same rhetoric
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hamas-slams-israeli-claims-as-lies-prelude-to-commit-another>
of practically holding innocent civilians, including little children,
accountable for any act of Resistance carried out against "Israel".

"There is an obligation to destroy the wasps' nests and the hospitals that
are used to shelter them," it added.
Health system collapsed

The IOF have previously targeted ambulances
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israel-targets-mosques-ambulances-during-aggression-on-gaza>,
as well as hospitals, committing numerous massacres against the people of
Gaza, with a death toll that has surpassed 9,500
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--admits-four-soldiers-killed-in-gaza--amid-fierce-re>
.

On Thursday, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital said that electricity has
been cut off in some sections of the hospital due to fuel depletion
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gazas-al-shifa-hospital-faces-imminent-fuel-depletion:-msf>
.

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with US
Secretary of State Antony Blinken in "Tel Aviv"
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/blinken-in--tel-aviv--friday-amid--israel--full-throated-sup>,
various Israeli media outlets quickly reported, citing Netanyahu's office
or sources within it, that the decision to deny the entry of fuel into the
Gaza Strip
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/fuel-supply-still-denied-to-gaza-after-netanyahu-blinken-mee>
 remains unchanged.

Electricity, clean water, and fuel
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/remaining-fuel-only-to-supply-hospitals-for-few-hours:-chief>
 have all run out, and there are no medical supplies or lifesaving
treatments. Dozens of hospitals and medical centers have been shut down,
meaning that patients have to be transferred to the remaining hospitals,
which are already overcrowded.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that it was nearly
impossible to transfer medical supplies to hospitals
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/who-slams-gaza-aid-delivery-hurdles>
 and criticized the absence of safety guarantees for sending humanitarian
aid to the Gaza Strip.
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