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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">500 Palestinians Arrested at Al-Shifa Hospital - Israeli Army</h1>March 25, 2024<br></div>
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Hundreds of Palestinians have been detained in Al-Shifa. (Photo: via QNN)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3><span>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.</span></h3>
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<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>“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 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/20/middleeast/al-shifa-gaza-israel-raid-intl/index.html">reported</a> on Thursday, citing eyewitnesses.</span></p>
<p><b>My Father’s Last Words</b></p>
<p><span>The human rights group Euro-Monitor said on Wednesday that many
Palestinians “were victims of extrajudicial executions after their
arrest”.</span></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>“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.</span></p>
<p><span>According to Ahmed’s account, after telling the Palestinian detainees that they were safe, Israeli snipers opened fire at them. </span></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<h4><strong>False Photos</strong></h4>
<p>The Israeli army announced on Thursday that it had arrested top Hamas officials during its raid on Al-Shifa Hospital.</p>
<p>A photo collage released by the army showed that Al-Qassam Brigades leader Raed Saad was among the detainees.</p>
<p>In a press conference, the Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari
boasted of detaining “very significant” senior Hamas commanders,
according to The Times of Israel.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p><b>Al-Shifa Storming</b></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>This is the second time that Israeli forces have stormed the
Al-Shifa Medical Complex since the beginning of the war on October 7.</span></p>
<p><span>They stormed it for the first time on November 16, after besieging it for at least a week.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><b>Genocide Continues</b></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. </span></p>
<p><span>Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span> </span><span>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.’ </span><span><br>
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<p><em>(The Palestine Chronicle)</em></p>
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