By Nils Adler and Farah Najjar
Palestinian doctors have told Al Jazeera that they have discovered another mass grave in the vicinity of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, recently besieged by Israeli soldiers, with nine bodies believed to be those of patients found so far.
Israeli forces again bomb the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing five people and wounding dozens as the UN Security Council meets to discuss Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel.
Rescuers and medics search for dead bodies inside the damaged Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital and the area around it following a two-week operation.
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At least 33,797 Palestinians have been killed and 76,465 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.
Meanwhile, Hamas has decried Israeli ‘war crimes’ at al-Shifa Hospital as mass graves were found.
The Palestinian group said the new mass grave discovered at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza is “horrifying”.
The group said the mass grave includes “several decomposing bodies” that Israeli forces, using military bulldozers, hid under the rubble before withdrawing from the medical complex earlier this month.
Israeli forces have attacked and besieged the hospital several times since October 7, leaving it largely in ruins. Thousands of medical staff, patients, and displaced families were at the facility during the attacks, with witnesses saying hundreds lost their lives as a result.
The latest discovery indicates that there are “no limits” to what Israeli forces are willing to do, Hamas said.
Their crimes are continuing because of the international community’s silence in the face of this “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza, the group added.
“The series of ongoing violations, including the discovery of mass graves in al-Shifa, cases of execution, and the hundreds of bodies that remain under the rubble … are clear and well-documented war crimes,” it said.
Hamas called on the international community to bring those responsible to justice.
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Source: Aljezera
