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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Italian doctor details horrific Israeli crimes in Gaza's al-Shifa</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">April 1, 2024<br></div>
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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.</p><img src="cid:ii_luh49an60" alt="ca232127-815d-48b6-951a-c82c17a00090.jpg" width="395" height="252"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
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. <em>(AFP)</em>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-withdraw-from-vicinity-of-al-shifa-hospital">Israeli forces withdraw from vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital</a></strong></p>
<h2>Humiliating Al-Shifa's staff representative and starving patients</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>"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. </p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-leave-behind-trail-of-terror-at-gaza-s-al-shifa-hospital">IOF leave behind trail of terror at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital</a></strong></p>
<h2>Mass executions and detainments of Palestinians</h2>
<p>In her own commentary on the situation, Dr. Manduca took note of the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-50-palestinians-in-al-shifa--includin">mass field executions</a>
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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>"Israel" also forcibly displaced thousands of Palestinians southward
under the threat of gunfire, killing several on a designated "safe
path".</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--willfully-killed-patients--arrested-staff-at-al-shi">'Israel' willfully killed patients, arrested staff at al-Shifa: Report</a></strong></p>
<h2>Dr. Manduca calls on citizens of countries complicit in Israeli crimes to take action</h2>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>"The problem of saving Palestine is not just a Palestinian problem. And there's no time to do it," she emphasized. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>"The task of states, what is required of them, is to sanction Israel,
severing economic, military and research agreements," she stated.</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Earlier today, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported that Israeli occupation forces have <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-withdraw-from-vicinity-of-al-shifa-hospital">completely withdrawn from the vicinity of the al-Shifa Medical Complex</a> toward the southwest of Gaza City.</p>
<p>He pointed out that scores of martyrs' bodies were found in the
vicinity of the hospital after the withdrawal of the occupation forces.</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>"The scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around it is very large."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Basal confirmed that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) had <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-50-palestinians-in-al-shifa--includin">executed civilians</a>, whose bodies were found handcuffed at Al-Shifa hospital. Furthermore, he detailed that the IOF had set fire to wards <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-13-palestinian-children-near-al-shifa">within the hospital</a>, leaving behind a mass trail of devastation as they destroyed all medical equipment and supplies.</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-13-palestinian-children-near-al-shifa">Israeli forces execute 13 Palestinian children near Al-Shifa: Euro-Med</a></strong></p></div></div></div>
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