A clearer view of al-Wafa hospital. Note that it is in a different area entirely than the Israel army claims.
The Israeli military on Wednesday completely destroyed the al-Wafa rehabilitation and geriatric hospital in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shujaiya after
weeks of missile strikes on the hospital and the forced evacuation of
the patients, caregivers and hospital staff last week.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the Israeli military claimed the hospital buildings were “being used as a Hamas command center and rocket-launching site.” However, the hospital director, Dr. Basman Alashi, says that Israel has targeted the hospital based on false and misleading claims.
Activists with the International Solidarity Movement, who have been working closely with al-Wafa hospital staff and who attempted to prevent Israel from shelling the hospital two weeks ago, stated in a press release on Wednesday (including the photo below) that:
(Ismael Mohamad / United Press International)
Israel used fabricated images to justify bombing al-Wafa hospital
Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 07/24/2014 - 20:43
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Relatives bury the bodies of two Palestinian boys, Abdulrahamn Abed
al-Nabi, 1, and Hadi Abed al-Nabi, 3, who medics said were killed in an
Israeli air strike in northern Gaza on Thursday.
(Ezz al-Zanoun / APA images)
(Ezz al-Zanoun / APA images)
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the Israeli military claimed the hospital buildings were “being used as a Hamas command center and rocket-launching site.” However, the hospital director, Dr. Basman Alashi, says that Israel has targeted the hospital based on false and misleading claims.
Activists with the International Solidarity Movement, who have been working closely with al-Wafa hospital staff and who attempted to prevent Israel from shelling the hospital two weeks ago, stated in a press release on Wednesday (including the photo below) that:
On the 21 July at 2:17 PM, the IDF spokesperson released an image on twitter showing an aerial picture of a building marked as “Al-Wafa” hospital. In the image there is a red circle, which they designated as the location from which an M75 rocket was launched.Read more
The building in the picture marked “Al-Wafa” hospital is in fact not the el-Wafa hospital but the Right to Life Society.
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