Israeli forces recently conducted a raid on the Kamal Adwan hospital located in northern Gaza, detaining the hospital director in the process. The military operation was said to have been targeted at Hamas, the militant group governing the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has claimed that the raid on the hospital is now over, but the detention of the hospital director has raised concerns about the impact on medical facilities and healthcare services in the region. The Kamal Adwan hospital is one of the last major hospitals in northern Gaza, serving a population of over a million people.
The incident has sparked outrage among Palestinians and human rights groups, who have condemned the violation of international humanitarian law and the targeting of medical facilities. The detention of the hospital director has been seen as a form of collective punishment against the civilian population in Gaza.
The Israeli military’s actions in Gaza have been a point of contention for years, with frequent clashes and raids taking place in the region. The raid on the Kamal Adwan hospital is just the latest development in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
As tensions continue to escalate in the region, the international community has called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict and for the protection of civilians, including medical workers and facilities. The targeting of hospitals and healthcare services in Gaza has been a significant concern, as it undermines access to essential medical care for the civilian population.
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The World Heath Organization is likely to suffer a funding crisis after the new American administration comes to power. It is widely perceived as a corrupt and partisan organization. It will be interesting to see if it survives American hostility. I hope not.
When does it all end?
WHO cares about what Bill Gates wants to earn with vaccines and medicatie id's.
WHO is the enemy of the world
WHO would fix the Problem…Not!
But they won't do a damn thing! I'm ashamed of the part my country Canada has in this inhumane and depraved destruction of Palestinians and Gaza!!
And like the US and UK Germany continues to give weapons to Israel, shame on you
DW trying their best to beautify the killing of civilians who are sick in a hospital. This is the 5th hospital they put siege on for weeks and eventually destroyed. Were are preachers of “human rights”.
According to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical staff and means of transport. The rule has few exceptions.
Specific protection of medical establishments and units (including hospitals) is the general rule under IHL. Therefore, specific protection to which hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used by a party to the conflict to commit, outside their humanitarian functions, an "act harmful to the enemy". In case of doubt as to whether medical units of establishments are used to commit an "act harmful to the enemy", they should be presumed not to be so used.
The expression "act harmful to the enemy" is not defined under IHL. This body of law merely singles out a few acts expressly recognized as not being harmful to the enemy, such as the carrying or using of individual light weapon in self-defense or defense of wounded and sick; armed guarding of a medical facility; or the presence in a medical facility of sick or wounded combatants no longer taking part in hostilities.
Notwithstanding the lack of an agreed definition, the rationale for a loss of protection is clear. Medical establishments and units enjoy protection because of their function of providing care for the wounded and sick. When they are used to interfere directly or indirectly in military operations, and thereby cause harm to the enemy, the rationale for their specific protection is removed. This would be the case for example if a hospital is used as a base from which to launch an attack; as an observation post to transmit information of military value; as a weapons depot; as a center for liaison with fighting troops; or as a shelter for able-bodied combatants.
An act harmful to the enemy may render a medical establishment or unit liable to attack; it may seriously endanger the wounded and sick entrusted to its care; and it may also engender distrust of the work of medical establishments or units in other cases, and thus lessen the protective value of IHL in general.
Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, certain acts harmful to the enemy may amount to a violation of precautionary obligations to protect the wounded and sick, as well as health-care personnel and objects against the effects of attacks or to a violation of the prohibition to use human shield. A concrete example would be the placing of a medical establishment or unit in proximity to a military objective with the intention of shielding it from enemy's military operations.
Finally, such conduct may also give rise to other IHL violations – or even war crimes. For instance, engaging in acts harmful to the enemy where the medical establishments and units are displaying the distinctive emblems (Red Cross; Red Crescent; Red Crystal) also qualify as improper use of the emblems – or as the war crime of perfidy, if done to kill or injure an enemy combatant.
Disgraceful and sickening. They will be judged.
Palestinians refuse to return hostages. Karma!
Who (World enemy)
It is sick , disgraceful that the Gaza Hospital Doctors, staff supporting , helping to HAMAS terrorists cooperated during this war , it should have known that for safety patients , civilians and staff instead of putting in danger Patients and Hospital staff , civilian .
We’ve known for years that Israel was targeting hospitals and media personnel and children, so why do we keep sensationalizing this in the news instead of outright condemning Israel as war crimes
FREE PALESTINE!!
WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP !!!!!!
The first thing that came to my mind was how the doctors could allow Hamas murderers to hide under their lab coats!!!!
Since 2008 Hamas has build military sites near or under Hospitals, Schools and other public spaces!
The WHO has ZERO credibility! Just a communist puppet of China. God bless Israel.
WHO – another organization the US should stop funding
I have no words. No words will make a difference.
You people are responsible for what is going on in Gaza. Hamas militants are part of the WHO staff and using the hospital as a military base for Hamas
l ‘importe quoi!
det er jo kun krigsforbrydelser med israel og jøderne . derfor kommer de væk mm.
DW Complicit, Corrupt and Culpable!
Israel has lost its soul.
Leftist and who can cry their heart out all they want….what it looked like ezreal took care of the patients literally after separating them from medical staff, and took care of medical staff the way it needed
Isreal should check by xray,all the stuff which is coming in ad Gaza aid even if its from WHO..It can be guns and bombs probably hiding under bandages. This Tariq guy is soo shady that we can figure out, he was spitting the truth without a single line saying about it.
Terrorists and weapons hidden in a hospital? I’m shocked…shocked!!!
YES YES BUT, where are the hostages?????
WHO cares what WHO says after the COVID cr@p
The UN never condemns its own agencies for supporting Hamas and its brutalities & its attack on 7/10. What a shame.
It is well known and documented that the Palestinians have set up shop basically in all hospitals across Gaza to use to store weapons and hide terrorists. Perhaps the good gentleman from the WHO might concentrate on that and the situation might well improve. Otherwise, Israel must do what she must do to protect her citizens while minimizing damage to Palestinians—which the actual statistics show has been done. See John Spencer's analysis (from West Point) on tis very issue.
As for those who dispute about Allah after He is ˹already˺ acknowledged ˹by many˺, their argument is futile in the sight of their Lord. Upon them is wrath, and they will suffer a severe punishment.
GOD bless Palestine,Glory to Palestine in jesus mighty name Amen;;;
Hammas base
Hamas fighters got wounded on the frontline, you called them patience? Nonsense
Wann die Mitleid wollen ist keine zukommen Rebranding wont work no matter how much Wailing they do Same as 1492