[News] 500 Palestinians Arrested at Al-Shifa Hospital

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500 Palestinians Arrested at Al-Shifa Hospital - Israeli ArmyMarch 25, 2024
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Hundreds of Palestinians have been detained in Al-Shifa. (Photo: via QNN)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

The Israeli army said on Monday that it had arrested 500 Palestinians in
and around the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City in the past week.

Despite claims by the Israeli military that they detained Palestinians
based on their links to Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad,
Palestinian reporters and medical staff described horrific scenes of
humiliating interrogations and arrests of civilians.

“Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers,
blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa
Hospital, in northern Gaza,” CNN reported
<https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/20/middleeast/al-shifa-gaza-israel-raid-intl/index.html>
on Thursday, citing eyewitnesses.

*My Father’s Last Words*

The human rights group Euro-Monitor said on Wednesday that many
Palestinians “were victims of extrajudicial executions after their arrest”.

In a video interview, which was published in Al-Jazeera and other news
outlets, a Palestinian boy described what happened to him and eight others,
including his father and his brother, when they were captured by Israeli
forces in the vicinity of the hospital.

“They stripped us from our clothes. They left us standing in the building
for two hours. Then, they took us to the Al-Shifa (Hospital),” Farouk
Mohammed Ahmed said.

According to Ahmed’s account, after telling the Palestinian detainees that
they were safe, Israeli snipers opened fire at them.

Ahmed is reportedly the only survivor of one of many mass executions
carried out by the Israeli army in the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
*False Photos*

The Israeli army announced on Thursday that it had arrested top Hamas
officials during its raid on Al-Shifa Hospital.

A photo collage released by the army showed that Al-Qassam Brigades leader
Raed Saad was among the detainees.

In a press conference, the Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari boasted of
detaining “very significant” senior Hamas commanders, according to The
Times of Israel.

A security official in the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, however,
said in an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday that “the list of
detainees’ photos at Al-Shifa Hospital released by the spokesperson of the
occupation army is inaccurate.”

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Friday that the Israeli
army’s announcement that Saad was arrested in the Al-Shifa Medical Hospital
turned out to be false.

In a joint statement, the Israeli army and the Shin Bet admitted that “due
to human error, there are several photos in the graphic of terrorists who
have not yet been caught.”

*Al-Shifa Storming*

According to Gaza’s government media office, more than 250 Palestinians
have been killed and injured in the Israeli raid on the facility, which
started on March 18.

This is the second time that Israeli forces have stormed the Al-Shifa
Medical Complex since the beginning of the war on October 7.

They stormed it for the first time on November 16, after besieging it for
at least a week.

Israeli forces subsequently withdrew from the hospital, after destroying
its courtyards, parts of its buildings, medical equipment and equipment, in
addition to the hospital’s electricity generator.

*Genocide Continues*

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide
against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza
since October 7.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 32,333 Palestinians have been
killed, and 74,694 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on
October 7.

Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under
the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those
killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of
nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast
majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of
Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest
mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

 Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the
Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports
suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire.’

*(The Palestine Chronicle)*
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