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<div dir="ltr">Hello all,
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<div>I was so taken (horrified) by this account that I felt I
had to share it - and I hope it doesn't ruin your day, but it
doesn't make the front pages and the Canadian and US
governments keep supplying weapons and ammunition.</div>
<div>Let us continue to hope, pray and work for miracles</div>
<div>Peace, Dwyer<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
align="center"><span
style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">“<i>Come
out, you animals”</i>:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
align="center"><span
style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">The
Massacre at al-Shifa Hospital</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">During
the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the
Israeli army
shot patients in their beds and
doctors who refused to abandon the
sick,
separated people into groups with
differently-colored bracelets, and
executed
hundreds of civil government
employees.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Human
heads eaten by crows, unidentified and
decomposing
body parts, and hundreds of corpses
piled up and buried in mass graves are
all
that remained of the victims of the
massacre at al-Shifa Hospital. The
grim
scene was something out of a dystopian
movie, the product of the </span><a
href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/israel-destroyed-al-shifa-hospital-to-accelerate-social-collapse-in-gaza/"
style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:blue;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0in">two-week
siege of Gaza’s largest hospital</span></a><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)"> that
ended in its total destruction.</span><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Following
the completion of al-Shifa’s
decimation, the
Israeli army announced that it had
been one of the most successful
operations
since the start of the war, claiming
that it had arrested hundreds of Hamas
and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad members in
the medical compound. But the question
that
no one seemed to ask is how such a
massive number of so-called
“operatives”
from Hamas and PIJ had gathered at
al-Shifa with the full knowledge that
the
place had already been combed by the
army once before and that Gaza City
had
been occupied by the army ever since.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Mondoweiss </span></i><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">contacted
many survivors of the events at
al-Shifa. Most of them refused to
speak and
feared exposing their identities. A
few accepted under the condition of
anonymity, fearing that their
testimonies would make them targets by
the
Israeli army and that they would be
subsequently killed. In light of the
testimonies gathered by <i>Mondoweiss</i>,
a different picture emerges of
what happened.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b
style="font-size:12pt"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b
style="font-size:12pt"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">The
intelligence leak</span></b><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">One
young man who managed to escape the
hospital mere
moments before the army invasion began
said that there had indeed been
hundreds
of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic
Jihad-affiliated employees in the
hospital,
but none of them were military
operatives. They were workers in the
Gaza
government’s civil branch, including
Civil Defense crews, the police force,
the
internal security services, interior
ministry employees, and employees of
other
branches of the local government. All
of them had gathered to receive their
governmental salaries at al-Shifa,
given that it was one of the few
remaining
places that was supposed to be
relatively safe from the fighting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“There
was a room in the specialized
surgeries building
that served as an office for the
government branches that operated
aboveground,” said the young man,
(hereafter named “Z”), referencing the
Hamas
government’s civilian branches. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Z
also confirmed that a number of PIJ
members who worked
non-military jobs were there as well
to receive salaries. “There was
another
building that was an office for the
[PIJ] movement, and the men employed
by the
movement would go there to collect
their salaries.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“It
had been a long time since any of
these employees had
seen one another,” Z explained.
“That’s why they were all chatting in
the
medical compound and catching up with
one another.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">The
way the Israeli army described the
gathering was that
it had obtained confirmed intelligence
reports of a large number of “</span><a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-ends-shifa-hospital-raid-after-arresting-or-killing-hundreds-of-terror-operatives/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:blue;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0in">terror
operatives</span></a><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">”
from
both groups inside al-Shifa, and after
the raid, it announced that it had
arrested 900 “suspects” and confirmed
that 500 of them were “terror
operatives,” while announcing that it
had killed 200 more “gunmen,” among
them
“top commanders in Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">The
siege begins</span></b><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Z
told <i>Mondoweiss</i> that he heard
the sound
of army vehicles and tanks approaching
the hospital minutes before the
attack.
He and his colleague had also arrived
at al-Shifa to receive their salaries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“When
we heard the vehicles, I told my
colleague we had to
leave immediately, thinking they might
be headed toward the hospital itself,”
Z
said, explaining that anyone employed
by the Hamas government is regarded as
wanted by Israel. His colleague didn’t
listen, believing that the army might
be
invading a nearby area instead. “He
told me they were probably headed to
the
industrial zone.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">At
first, Z’s colleague refused to leave,
but as the sound
of the tanks drew nearer, both decided
to leave immediately. While they were
both civilians with no military
background, they were both members of
the Hamas
movement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">A
few moments later, the invasion
started. They witnessed
the tanks surrounding the compound and
the arrival of quadcopter drones
hovering overhead. In an instant, all
of al-Shifa was besieged from land and
from air.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Another
survivor who had managed to escape the
compound
said that the majority of intelligence
regarding who had gathered at the
compound was relayed to Israel by
informants, collaborators, and
undercover
Israeli spies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“On
the night of the invasion, there were
two street
vendors who always sat at the entrance
of al-Shifa,” the survivor told <i>Mondoweiss</i>.
“One of them sold water, and the other
sold canned foods. When the invasion
happened, the two merchants revealed
themselves to be soldiers. They took
out
handguns and entered the hospital with
other soldiers, and they directed them
where to go. They had been there for a
long time and knew where everything
was.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">The
medical compound housed several
buildings, including
maternity wards, specialized surgery
buildings, and cardiac wings. When the
soldiers entered the compound,
everyone was ordered to evacuate the
buildings.
Drones carrying speakers broadcast the
army’s orders, telling people that
they
must exit and gather in the courtyard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“The
drones kept saying, ‘</span><b><i><span
style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Come
out, you animals,</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">’”
Z told <i>Mondoweiss</i>. </span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)"><br>
</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">Executions
of doctors and suspected government
employees</span></b><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt"></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">When
everyone left the buildings, the army
began to separate
the crowds of people into groups,
making each group wear
differently-colored
plastic bracelets. The soldiers told
them that these bracelets were
connected
to a system that alerts snipers to
their movements. They were divided
into two
colors: yellow, which was attached to
hospital staff and whoever the army
considered civilians, and red, which
was given to people who could not move
on
their own, such as patients, the
injured, amputees, or people with
broken
limbs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">The
army also gathered people who were
suspected of
belonging to Hamas or the PIJ. They
were not given bracelets but were
separated
from the injured and hospital staff,
who were sent to a different
building. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">A
third much larger group was ordered to
leave the hospital
entirely — thousands of displaced
persons who had been sheltering in the
compound, in addition to some members
of the hospital staff. Some of the
staff
members, including doctors, refused to
leave. When they refused the army’s
orders, they were executed immediately
and without argument.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">The
army then brought out a huge number of
men from the
group of suspected Hamas and PIJ
members and employees, gathering them
in the
center of the courtyard. It then
proceeded to execute them, one after
the
other. When the slaughter was done,
army bulldozers piled up their corpses
in
the dozens, dragging them through the
sand and burying them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">As
this was ongoing, other soldiers
stormed various
buildings in the compound in search of
people who had refused to evacuate
when
the initial order was given. They
killed anyone they found, regarding
them as
suspects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">There
were some in the hospital who resisted
and attempted
to open fire, including police
officers carrying handguns. That
number of
people was minor, and their resistance
did not save them — they were killed
along with those who did not put up
any resistance. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">A
video published on social media filmed
by a journalist at
the hospital shows a female doctor,
who identified herself as Amira
al-Safadi,
describing what happened.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“After
the first day of the attack, which we
were surprised
by at 2 a.m., the army ordered us not
to leave when it entered,” Dr. Safadi
says. “Then, on the second day, it
gave us the bracelets and emphasized
that we
had to wear them and that anyone who
left the building without wearing one
would be immediately killed.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">“We
were sent to four different
buildings,” she continues,
describing that she joined a number of
other doctors and nurses with their
patients. “Around 16 injured patients
died because we were unable to treat
them.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">By
the time the army withdrew from
al-Shifa, the entire
compound had been all but decimated,
reduced to rubble and burnt buildings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">The
‘largest massacres in Palestinian
history’</span></b><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75);letter-spacing:-0.1pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">The
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said
that the massacre at
al-Shifa was </span><a
href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6254/Gaza:-Shifa-Medical-Complex-witnesses-one-of-the-largest-massacres-in-Palestinian-history"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:blue;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0in">one
of the largest in Palestinian
history</span></a><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">,
estimating that at least 1,500 people
had been killed,
injured, or reported missing, “with
women and children making up half of
the
casualties.”* The organization also
confirms that at least 22 patients
were
shot while in their hospital beds,
while the number of displaced persons
sheltering at the hospital who were
forced to evacuate southward was
estimated
to include 25,000 people. Moreover,
1,200 housing units in the vicinity of
al-Shifa were destroyed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"DM Sans";color:rgb(71,72,75)">Despite
the army’s claims about the al-Shifa
operation’s
strategic and military importance and
the number of alleged Hamas and PIJ
members it had arrested and killed, it
obfuscated the real intended purpose
of
the operation, which was to destroy
the health system in northern Gaza and
worsen the already disastrous
humanitarian conditions. The entire
compound is
now unfit for use. Even the morgue,
containing countless bodies of the
slain,
was burned down. </span><span
style="color:rgb(71,72,75);font-family:"DM Sans";font-size:13pt">Israel’s
“operation” at al-Shifa was, indeed, a
success.</span></p>
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