Israeli army kidnaps 9 doctors, executes hundreds in Nasser hospital

AA / Istanbul / Rania Abou Shamala

The Israeli army executed hundreds of displaced, sick and injured people during an attack on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip in a four-month military operation, the Gaza media office said in a statement on Wednesday. night.

“The depth of the mass graves we found (at Nasser Hospital) confirms that they were dug using large machines, such as Israeli occupation bulldozers, among other vehicles,” Gaza media office chief Ismail Al-Thawabteh told Anadolu.

Al-Thawabteh added that “the Israeli army kidnapped 9 doctors from the Nasser Medical Complex and took them to an unknown destination, committing the crime of enforced disappearance against them.”

Israel has been waging a deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack launched on October 7, 2023 by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. Tel Aviv says nearly 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas attack.

The number of victims of the offensive carried out by Israel since then shows 34,183 Palestinians killed and 77,143 wounded, while 85% of the population of Gaza is forced to move inside the territory, in the context of a serious shortage of food, drinking water and medicine, and that 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure is damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.

Israel continues its murderous war despite the adoption of a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, ignoring the first case brought against it before the International Court of Justice for the “crime of genocide”.

* Translated from English by Mounir Bennour.

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