[News] The facts of the Ahli/Baptist Hospital Bombing
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Ahli hospital bombing
Ahli hospital bombing
Standing in the middle of a pile of Palestinian bodies, the Ministry of
Health’s Director General gave a press conference following the mass
murder of Palestinians by Israeli forces at Al Ahli hospital, October
17, 2023.
The facts of the Ahli/Baptist Hospital Bombing
Some basic facts
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Today marks the twelfth day since the beginning of Al Aqsa Flood and the
subsequent Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Since October
7, Israeli colonial forces have murdered thousands of Palestinians in
Gaza. The Ministry of Health is struggling to provide accurate numbers,
as at least 1,300 bodies remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed
buildings—among them homes, shelters, bakeries, clinics, UNRWA food
depots, hospitals, and schools. The most recent estimate is 3,478. This
is likely a significant undercount. More than a thousand of those
murdered are children.
Last night, Israeli forces targeted and bombed Al Ahli Arab hospital
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also known as the Baptist hospital in Gaza city. This was not the first
time Israeli forces attacked Al Ahli hospital, as it had been targeted
and hit by airstrikes only a few days before on October 14
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damaging two floors and injuring four people. This hospital was not only
housing patients, as well as doctors, nurses, and other healthcare
workers, but also sheltering hundreds last night who assumed the
Christian hospital was a safer place to take cover than most. The
airstrike killed at least 500 Palestinians, with some estimates doubling
the number. Videos at the scene of the bombing show bodies dismembered,
scattered across a courtyard and carried away in pieces. Each of these
people were someone’s loved one.
It is clear that Israeli authorities and the forces carrying out these
genocidal attacks on Gaza are trying to destroy as much infrastructure
and resources supporting human life as possible. In the days before this
massive hospital strike, Israeli forces targeted UNRWA depots
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which housed extra food resources, as well as shelters, homes, and
bakeries. Israeli forces have ordered Palestinians to evacuate from the
north to the “safer” south, yet continue to bombard Rafah, Khan Younis,
and many other areas of the south
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making it just as unsafe as the north. Palestinians in Gaza remain
without access to electricity, fresh water, food resources, and the aid
sent for them on the other side of Rafah crossing. Despite attempts by
Israeli forces to threaten medical workers into evacuating 22 hospitals
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across Gaza, most hospitals and medical workers refuse to evacuate
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stating that they will not abandon their patients to die. In the midst
of murder and death, Palestinians continue to teach life.
As international condemnation about targeting a hospital—a war crime,
for anyone tallying Israel’s war crimes during this murderous
campaign—began, Israeli forces immediately pointed the finger away from
their own US-backed forces to blame Hamas, then the Palestinian Islamic
Jihad. These accusations are an attempt to confuse and create doubt,
when it is obvious to anyone paying attention that there is only one
military with both the intent and means to murder this many civilians in
one strike. The Evangelical Church in Jerusalem published a statement
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today that it received three phone warnings before Israeli forces struck
the hospital. Furthermore, it is a common tactic of the Israeli state
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and military to deploy false information when confronted about war
crimes, and reminds us of the initial responses to the murder of Shireen
Abu Akleh
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at the hands of invading Israeli forces in Jenin, during which Israeli
forces claimed that she was shot by resistance fighters. Israeli forces
continue to spread misinformation throughout this attack on Gaza; you
can read a critical analysis and response
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to Israeli attempts to frame Palestinian resistance here. It is
incumbent on those who know better to not only share accurate
information, but correct those around them and reach out to mainstream
media who consistently have spread false and misleading information.
Here is an eyewitness account in English by Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta
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a Palestinian-British doctor who arrived in Gaza to volunteer at local
hospitals.
Last night and this morning, Palestinians in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin,
Nablus, and elsewhere across the West Bank took to the streets across
Palestine, standing in support of Gaza and with the resistance against
Israeli colonialism and genocide. They also called out the complicity of
the Palestinian Authority, and were met by tear gas and live bullets in
return
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No doubt, this uprising will continue. Across political factions, there
is unity among the people in supporting each other and standing against
the violence of a state so desperate to erase us. In Gaza, in response
to new calls to evacuate certain areas, many Palestinians have stated
clearly, “We will not leave.”
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Despite increasing zionist pressure campaigns on Palestinian communities
throughout all of Palestine, including displacement of Palestinian
communities and settler attacks in the West Bank, Palestinians are
steadfast.
As we mourn, we must take action. We cannot build the new world we
envision or create the justice we seek simply by asking for the mass
murder to stop. We know that simply calling for a ceasefire is not
enough, as tomorrow, Palestinians in Gaza will remain under siege, those
in the West Bank will continue to face settler attacks and forced
displacement, home demolitions will continue everywhere, and we will
still suffer under zionist settler-colonialism. We need an end to the
siege on Gaza and an end to Israeli colonialism.
Stand with Gaza and all Palestinians now—don’t stop organizing. Call
your representatives and politicians of all stripes and state your
demands, demonstrate wherever you can, educate your community, speak to
your friends and get them to join in, and please continue to uplift
Palestinian analysis and coverage of the situation—especially from those
in Gaza. Below is a list of specific actions you can take.
If you are in Canada, sign this petition
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to condemn Israeli violence against Palestinians.
Those in Canada can also write a letter
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to end subsidies to Israeli settler organizations.
For those based in the US, find nation-wide protests here
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Donate to support the Al Ahli hospital
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which was bombed last night.
Until liberation and return,
Lara Kilani
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Lara Kilani
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