[News] Italian doctor details horrific Israeli crimes in Gaza's al-Shifa

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Italian doctor details horrific Israeli crimes in Gaza's al-Shifa
Al Mayadeen English
April 1, 2024
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Dr. Paola Manduca, on behalf of the Italian Healthcare network for Gaza,
details the crimes of the Israeli military in Gaza, calling for immediate
international action.
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   - Palestinians inspect the damage in the area around Gaza's Al-Shifa
   Medical Complex after the Israeli occupation forces withdrew, from the Gaza
   Strip, Palestine, on April 1, 2024. *(AFP)*

Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City witnessed a collection of the Israeli
occupation's most brutal war crimes, a letter released by Dr. Paola
Manduca, of the New Weapons Research Group organization, on behalf of the
Italian Healthcare network for Gaza, detailed.

Dr. Mancuda received a message from the Deputy Minister of Health in Gaza,
Dr. Yousif Abu al-Reech, detailing the crimes committed by the Israeli
occupation in Al-Shifa Hospital from the moment of the invasion until March
31, 2024, as per the letter.

The Deputy Minister explained that the Israeli occupation had imposed a
14-day siege on the medical complex, incarcerating 107 patients, most of
whom are in critical condition, and 60 medical staff members in an old
two-story Health Resources building. As reported by the staff, the building
is not equipped with ventilation and medical equipment, nor does it have
the necessary sanitary conditions, water, and food.

This has led to white flies hatching out of septic wounds of some patients,
Dr. al-Reech added. Moreover, medical staff ran out of gloves and were
forced to use plastic bags when treating patients, which eventually also
ran out.

"In addition, they reported the lack of elderly diapers, especially that 30
patients are bed-ridden and use diapers and are in intensive need of
medical care and nursing that the limited number of staff is incapable of
providing," the letter read.

*Read more: Israeli forces withdraw from vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-withdraw-from-vicinity-of-al-shifa-hospital>*
Humiliating Al-Shifa's staff representative and starving patients

Dr. al-Reech explained that the Israeli occupation's military was starving
the besieged patients, as no food or drinkable water was provided for days
on end.

Additionally, the Israeli occupation denuded Al-Shifa Hospital's staff
representative when he attempted to convey the needs of medical staff and
patients to military commanders.

"Prior to every negotiation attempt, soldiers undress him and leave him
semi-naked for 3 hours at least before meeting the concerned officer with
'we will look into the matter and come back to you' response, but they
never did," Dr. al-Reech explained.

*Read more: IOF leave behind trail of terror at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-leave-behind-trail-of-terror-at-gaza-s-al-shifa-hospital>*
Mass executions and detainments of Palestinians

In her own commentary on the situation, Dr. Manduca took note of the mass
field executions
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-50-palestinians-in-al-shifa--includin>
of unarmed people in Al-Shifa and its vicinity. As Dr. al-Reech mentioned
in his letter, patients' companions were either executed, detained, or
displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Manduca said that information provided by the Ministry of Health in
Gaza indicated that around 400 Palestinians were executed in Al-Shifa. At
the same time, another 800 were detained and taken to Israeli jails.

"Israel" also forcibly displaced thousands of Palestinians southward under
the threat of gunfire, killing several on a designated "safe path".

*Read more: 'Israel' willfully killed patients, arrested staff at al-Shifa:
Report
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--willfully-killed-patients--arrested-staff-at-al-shi>*
Dr. Manduca calls on citizens of countries complicit in Israeli crimes to
take action

"What do we, simple citizens of a country involved and complicit, do to
change all this? The strength is in each of us and in the pressure that we
will be able to put on our government to stop being an accomplice to
genocide and outside international law," Dr. Mancuda said, addressing
citizens of states aiding "Israel's" genocide in the Gaza Strip.

"The problem of saving Palestine is not just a Palestinian problem. And
there's no time to do it," she emphasized.

Dr. Mancuda called on all states to re-evaluate military and economic
agreements with "Israel", calling on all states to decide where they stand
in this genocide.

"The task of states, what is required of them, is to sanction Israel,
severing economic, military and research agreements," she stated.

"Not doing so makes them complicit in an ongoing genocide," Dr. Mancuda
said, adding that "it would be very good for those who invest in Israel to
suspend these investments."

Dr. Mancuda was also highly critical of the United States for its continued
support of "Israel" despite the ongoing massacre. She pointed to the US
sending supplies of heavy weapons amid alleged concerns about humanitarian
aid, saying that it is contradictory. Dr. Mancuda also lambasted the Biden
administration for working on an "inefficient" temporary pier in the Gaza
Strip, instead of providing aid to Palestinians via traditional land routes.

Earlier today, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported that Israeli
occupation forces have completely withdrawn from the vicinity of the
al-Shifa Medical Complex
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-withdraw-from-vicinity-of-al-shifa-hospital>
toward the southwest of Gaza City.

He pointed out that scores of martyrs' bodies were found in the vicinity of
the hospital after the withdrawal of the occupation forces.

"Dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed, have been recovered from in and
around the Al-Shifa medical complex," the Health Ministry in Gaza said in a
statement.

The Israeli occupation military "withdrew from the Al-Shifa medical complex
after burning down the complex buildings and putting it completely out of
service," it said.

"The scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around
it is very large."

In a harrowing revelation, Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the Civil
Defense in Gaza, disclosed that around 300 decomposing bodies with signs of
torture were scattered in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its
surrounding areas following the withdrawal of occupation forces after a
two-week siege.

Basal confirmed that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) had executed civilians
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-50-palestinians-in-al-shifa--includin>,
whose bodies were found handcuffed at Al-Shifa hospital. Furthermore, he
detailed that the IOF had set fire to wards within the hospital
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-13-palestinian-children-near-al-shifa>,
leaving behind a mass trail of devastation as they destroyed all medical
equipment and supplies.

*Read more: Israeli forces execute 13 Palestinian children near Al-Shifa:
Euro-Med
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-13-palestinian-children-near-al-shifa>*
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