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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel surrounds Indonesian hospital in Gaza with tanks, kills at least 12<br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Peoples Dispatch - November 12, 2023<br></div>
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<img src="cid:ii_lp7d9l0l0" alt="Gaza-Indonesian-hospital.jpeg" width="435" height="245"><br><p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>Images and videos circulating on social media show that </span><span>the hospital is completely destroyed and health workers are now forced to treat patients on the floor with mobile torches. </span></p>
<p><span>According to </span><a href="https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/139424"><i><span>Wafa News Agency</span></i></a><span>,
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.<br>
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<p>The <span>head of the Orthopedics Department at the Indonesian Medical Hospital</span>, <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1726461295468397017">Dr. Adnan al-Barsh</a> was also injured in the Israeli attacks on the Indonesian hospital.</p>
<p><span>The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza </span><a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1726491922045206569"><span>stated</span></a><span>
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, </span><i><span>Quds News Network</span></i><span> reported. </span><span> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/11/15/israeli-forces-raid-al-shifa-gazas-largest-hospital/"><span>Al-Shifa</span></a><span>,
like the Indonesian hospital, was targeted several times before by the
Israeli airstrikes before the ground forces attacked it. </span></p>
<p><span>Due to the impact of repeated attacks on hospitals and other </span><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/11/18/israeli-attacks-on-health-workers-in-palestine-continue/"><span>health infrastructure</span></a><span>,
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. </span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Attacking hospitals and targeting health workers are war crimes according to international law. </span></p>
<p><span>Israel has been bombing densely populated Gaza indiscriminately
since October 7 targeting residential buildings, hospitals, shelter
homes, schools, bakeries and other civilian infrastructure. </span></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
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