[News] Israel surrounds Indonesian hospital in Gaza with tanks, kills at least 12

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Israel surrounds Indonesian hospital in Gaza with tanks, kills at least 12
Peoples Dispatch - November 12, 2023
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On the 45th day of its war on Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, November 20,
Israeli ground forces attacked another hospital in northern Gaza, killing
at least 12 Palestinians including doctors and patients and injuring
several others.

Israeli tanks surrounded the hospital and buildings in its vicinity on
Monday morning and started shelling the area. Its shelling also targeted a
nearby Kuwaiti school where hundreds of people have taken shelter since the
beginning of the Israeli airstrikes.

The strike which targeted the second floor of the hospital also destroyed
its main operation room. According to reports, Israeli forces also cut the
electricity supply to the hospital after surrounding it.

Images and videos circulating on social media show that the hospital is
completely destroyed and health workers are now forced to treat patients on
the floor with mobile torches.

According to *Wafa News Agency*
<https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/139424>, at least 150 severely
wounded, and 100 members of the health staff and thousands of relatives of
the patients and displaced Palestinians taking shelter inside the hospital,
are now trapped due to the attacks from Israel.

The head of the Orthopedics Department at the Indonesian Medical Hospital, Dr.
Adnan al-Barsh <https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1726461295468397017> was
also injured in the Israeli attacks on the Indonesian hospital.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza stated
<https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1726491922045206569> that despite the
Israeli attack, the medical staff has decided to stay back to provide
treatment to the patients. The spokesperson of the ministry said that the
ministry fears that Israeli forces “will repeat what it did to Al-Shifa
Medical Complex” last week, *Quds News Network* reported.

Al-Shifa
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/11/15/israeli-forces-raid-al-shifa-gazas-largest-hospital/>,
like the Indonesian hospital, was targeted several times before by the
Israeli airstrikes before the ground forces attacked it.

Due to the impact of repeated attacks on hospitals and other health
infrastructure
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/11/18/israeli-attacks-on-health-workers-in-palestine-continue/>,
along with no access to fuel supplies, most of the hospitals in Gaza have
been forced to close. Those which are still functioning are doing so on a
very limited scale.

Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest hospital, was surrounded by Israeli
forces last week. Thousands of people who were at the hospital including,
patients, health care workers, and displaced people, were forcibly evicted
from the premises while dozens, including new born babies, died from the
hospital being forced rendered not functional or were killed by Israeli
airstrikes or bullets.

Israel has been justifying its assault on hospitals by alleging that
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas uses them as bases of its operations.
After raiding Al-Shifa, Israeli forces published a series of videos showing
their “findings”, presenting elements such as a calendar, a bathroom, a
diaper, and a baby bottle as evidence to their claims. They also claimed to
have found weapons and a tunnel inside the hospital, which Al-Shifa
authorities have refuted and accused Israeli forces of planting elements.

Attacking hospitals and targeting health workers are war crimes according
to international law.

Israel has been bombing densely populated Gaza indiscriminately since
October 7 targeting residential buildings, hospitals, shelter homes,
schools, bakeries and other civilian infrastructure.

Through bombings and ground offensives, Israel has killed over 13,000
Palestinians and injured over 30,000 of them. Most of the killed and
injured are children, women, and elderly.

Israel has also imposed a blockade on the supply of basic commodities such
as fuel, food and medicines inside the besieged territory leading to a
large number of hospitals shutting down their operations due to the lack of
power supply and medical equipment.
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