Thousands of displaced people and patients, many in critical condition, do not have ambulances or a means to move.

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    The IDF denies it demanded that Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital evacuate within an hour, saying it was responding to requests by the medical center’s director who asked for a safe route out for those who wish to leave.

    “This morning, the IDF acceded to the request of the director of the Shifa Hospital to enable additional Gazans who were in the hospital, and would like to evacuate, to do so via the secure route,” the IDF says in a statement.

    “At no point, did the IDF order the evacuation of patients or medical teams and in fact proposed that any request for medical evacuation will be facilitated by the IDF,” it says.

    “Medical personnel will remain in the hospital to support patients who are unable to evacuate,” the IDF adds.

    The IDF also says that it provided additional food, water, and humanitarian aid to Shifa overnight.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Mohammed Zaqout, the director-general of hospitals in Gaza, reiterated to Al Jazeera: “I categorically deny these false allegations [from the Israeli army] … I am telling you we were forced to leave by gunpoint.”

      More than 7,000 people, including patients in critical condition and newborn babies fighting for their lives, were sheltered inside al-Shifa. The facility has been under siege by Israeli soldiers for several days.

      A doctor in al-Shifa told Al Jazeera that at around 9am local time (7:00 GMT), they received the order from the Israelis to leave in “one hour”, but that it was “impossible” to evacuate everyone.

      • groupofcrows@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        18
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        You don’t want witnesses if you are going to plant evidence. It takes time to setup a Hamas head quarters.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          They need more time after the whole “this thing that is totally a roster of Hamas personnel, please ignore the names of the days of the week. What are you saying? no, this is not a calendar. WTF, western media isn’t supposed to know how to read Arabic” debacle.

          • Doorbook@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            Wouldn’t be surprised if they say, tunnels are sealed and they have to open it and it will take time, in 6 months they will comeback and say, we open the tunnel and we found weapons of mass destruction and human bones.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        The Zionist conservative loves to lie, almost as much as it loves to murder children and hospital patients and staff.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          9
          ·
          1 year ago

          I know what you’re going for but liberal Zionists are liars and child murderers too - they just have different rhetoric.

          • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            What the fuck is a “Liberal Zionist”? Why don’t you head on back to stormfront or truth social or nambla or wherever you antisemitic conservative dickbags like to hang out these days? Normal people don’t want to interact with right-wing nutjobs.

            Nearly every act of racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia or other bigotry ever committed has been committed by conservatives. There is simply no place in modern society for conservatism. It is a plague of oppression, sickness and death. It always has been.

            • dustyData@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              There were several blog posts right here on News from “progressive Jewish people” whining about how they felt left behind and abandoned by the western progressives. Because they felt their desire to exterminate the Palestinian people, justified as a “right to defend themselves”, was their “fight against the oppression” of terrorism. They felt betrayed by their fellow LGBTQ+, feminists and ethnic minorities who called for a cease fire, because according to them “anti-zionism is anti-semitism”.

              So they do exists, you just must’ve missed them so far.

              • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                1 year ago

                Those people you are labelling as “progressive” are in no way progressive, not even by their own standards. Conservative Jews are very much a thing.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              8
              ·
              1 year ago

              Liberal Zionism is one of the main forms of Zionism in Israel (along with Labor Zionism and Revisionist Zionism)

              Your anti-conservative screed fails to grapple with the fact that all Zionism must be opposed. Every Zionist supported the Nakba, every Zionist opposes the right of return for Palestinian refugees, every Zionist supports limiting the rights and freedoms of Palestinians.

              If you don’t understand Israeli politics you probably shouldn’t go around attacking other people.

              • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                “Zionist” is an antisemitic dog-whistle used by conservative subhuman garbage. I am not an expert on Israeli politics, but I am very well-versed in the dangers of conservatism. You might be careful tossing around typical conservative slur-code like “zionist” in mixed company.

                • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  3
                  arrow-down
                  8
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Zionism should not be equated with Judaism, and the fact that there are anti-Zionist Jews is proof enough of that.

                  I’m opposed to Zionism as a European settler-colonial project to set up a racist apartheid occupation on stolen land.