War Crimes at Kamal Adwan Hospital – Testimonies of Violence and Abuse

Israeli service forces doctors and patients to caput southbound connected foot, half-naked, successful the freezing cold. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Shocking testimonies uncover sedate warfare crimes, including executions and intersexual violence, during the Israeli army’s battle connected Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Gaza.

Harrowing testimonies documenting superior crimes specified arsenic tract executions and intersexual battle of women committed by the Israeli service erstwhile it stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital and surrounding areas successful bluish Gaza person been recorded by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

These crimes besides included deliberate killings and carnal assaults connected women and girls from aesculapian teams and the displaced successful the area, the rights radical said.

The Israeli service raided the infirmary and its vicinity connected Friday, pursuing weeks of siege, artillery and aerial bombardment, which disabled the hospital’s powerfulness generators and oxygen accumulation equipment.

The service forcibly evacuated patients from the infirmary and residents from the country successful summation to abducting dozens of individuals and aesculapian staff, including the aesculapian facility’s manager Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

Explosive Robots

A unpaid paramedic told the Geneva-based rights radical that helium was staying successful a location adjacent the infirmary on with 11 civilians.

“Around 12:30 a.m. connected Friday, we heard a conveyance astatine the door. I told those with maine it seemed similar the service was placing explosive robots. Looking retired the window, I saw respective robots successful beforehand of homes successful the area,” the paramedic, identified arsenic AA, said.

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He continued: “We near our location and moved to different nearby, hoping to past the explosions. About fractional an hr later, the robots started detonating. The sounds were monolithic and terrifying, similar miniature atomic bombs.”

At that time, different young antheral “told america that the spot they sought refuge successful was bombed, injuring respective people. I rushed with others to help, but arsenic we approached the house, an Israeli craft fired different rocket astatine it.”

He said they “managed to evacuate 1 of the injured and recovered 1 dead. However, we were besides injured successful the process. At that moment, we heard screams from a adjacent location that had been deed arsenic well. We were successful a dire state, injured and incapable to help.”

White Flag Ignored

In the morning, they returned to their location to find it “completely destroyed.”

“Despite that, we sat successful the kitchen, astir 14 of us. Then service vehicles began shelling the house. We shouted that we were civilians,” helium continued.

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“The homeowner stepped out, waving a achromatic flag, but the soldiers instantly changeable him dormant from adjacent range. When we tried to retrieve his body, they fired a ammunition astatine us, injuring much of us. Among america was a kid who seemed to person a intelligence disorder, worsened by the relentless bombing,” said AA.

“Later, the service sent a civilian (a Palestinian detainee) to archer america to surrender. We said we were civilians and raised a achromatic flag,” helium stated.

“They led america to an unfastened country adjacent a cemetery, wherever we were forced to portion down to our underclothes and basal successful the freezing cold. When the kid with the intelligence upset stepped out, helium ran towards an Israeli tank. I called retired to him, but helium didn’t respond. They changeable him dormant immediately.”

‘Shot Dead without Questioning’

“There was an armoured unit bearer and a vessel successful the area. A worker ordered america to stitchery astatine a circumstantial spot. Among america were 5 injured individuals who were forced to locomotion successful beforehand of the tank. Suddenly, they were changeable dormant without immoderate questioning,” said the paramedic.

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He added that they were ordered to halt adjacent the tank, and “I thought it was going to crush us. After immoderate time, they transported america to the  Al-Fakhoura area, wherever they near america exposed and astir bare until 8 p.m.”

AA said determination were astir 300 radical “and they detained respective among us.”

“During this time, an serviceman fired shots supra our heads and ordered america to caput towards Jabalia. Drone craft hovered overhead until we arrived,” helium stated.

Sexual Violence

Euro-Med Monitor besides documented testimonies that uncover that nurses, patients, and their companions astatine Kamal Adwan Hospital were subjected to acts amounting to intersexual violence.

We person obtained preliminary harrowing testimonies of intersexual unit perpetrated by Israeli concern soldiers against nurses, patients, and their companions astatine Kamal Adwan Hospital and successful beforehand of Al-Farid Hall.

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“Israeli soldiers forced women and girls to region their covering nether threats, insults, and violative slurs targeting their honour,” said the rights group, portion respective women and girls “also reported being sexually harassed.”

“A worker forced a caregiver to instrumentality disconnected her trousers, past placed his manus connected her. When she tried to resist, helium struck her hard crossed the face, causing her chemoreceptor to bleed,” 1 of the women expelled from the country told the Euro-Med Monitor team.

‘Take it Off Now!’

Another pistillate said that a worker ordered a pistillate successful their group: “Take it off, oregon we’ll unit it disconnected you.”

In different incident, a pistillate refused to region her headscarf, prompting a worker to teardrop her clothes, exposing her chest.

Another pistillate recounted being dragged by a worker who forced her to property against him, saying, “Take it disconnected now,” portion hurling obscene remarks astatine her.

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Similarly, a infirmary unit subordinate said: “The soldiers ordered america to region our hijabs, but we refused. They past turned to the girls nether 20 years aged and demanded they region their hijabs, but they besides refused.”

The soldiers “decided to punish america by taking 2 women astatine a clip and forcing them to assistance their apparel and little their trousers nether threats and coercion.”

During the assault, Israeli concern forces destroyed and burned astir of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s sections aft targeting it with shells, said Euro-Med Monitor.

“Preliminary accusation besides indicates that respective infirmary unit members were killed portion trying to extinguish fires successful 1 of the hospital’s sections, which was wholly rendered retired of service,” said the report.

Call to UN

The rights groups called connected the applicable UN bodies to motorboat “an contiguous investigation” into the allegations contained successful the stestimonies of survivors from the Israeli army’s battle connected Kamal Adwan Hospital and the surrounding area.

It stressed “the request to activate ineligible mechanisms to clasp accountable those liable for quality rights violations, including individuals, governmental leaders, and subject officials progressive successful specified acts.”

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Euro-Med Monitor said that implicit the past 14 months, the planetary system, led by the UN, “has displayed a disgraceful nonaccomplishment to uphold its committedness to protecting civilians and stopping the genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians successful Gaza—an nonsubjective that should beryllium cardinal to its ngo and existence.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)