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Crushed by Israeli missile strikes, Gaza’s hospitals are barely functioning

Israeli military attacks on Gaza tape hospitals In recent weeks, I went up to the highest level so far this year, which brings a healthy system Really weakened for 19 months of war To the point of collapse. NBC News analyzed 27 Videos and photos of the last two months, which are taken by our private civilians and journalists on the ground to collect a full -term image to destroy a healthy system in war.

In shots of a surveillance camera, men, women and children can be seen crossing the entrance to the European Hospital, Lakhn Yunis Moments before hitting a missileBombing people in the air while others spread in a state of panic. Another video clip, posted on social media and verified by NBC News, showed the effects of the fire explosion in a medical warehouse near Al -Wouda HospitalIn the north of Gaza, which was attacked again and again, including on May 22 and again on May 24.

A man holds an injured child at Al -Wada Hospital in May.Eyad Baba / AFP – Getty Images

“Almost all hospitals in Gaza now Damage“Half of them no longer works,” said Jeans Lrek, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, during the war. Only to strike again and again or Besieged.

Hospitals are protected under International human lawbut Israel has confirmed that Hamas is using hospitals and medical centers for military activities, and opening them to attack. Hamas denied doing so. Human groups, including the United Nations, have He said Israel has not provided sufficient information to prove many of its claims and called for independent investigations of Israel and Hamas attacks. ” The alleged misuse of the facilities.

Earlier this week, the Israeli army gave a small group of correspondents a tour A tunnel detected under the European HospitalHe said that she recovered the body of the military chief in Hamas Muhammad Sinwar.

“We cannot emphasize this enough: Hospitals should not be not intended or targeted. If they are, this may be a war crime,” Lerck said.

Of the 36 hospitals in Gaza, nothing works completely; 17 They provide partial services, and 19 Don’t work at allAccording to World Health Organization data from Monday. The broader health system, including ambulances, field hospitals and clinics, was attacked more than 700 times since the beginning of the war, killing at least 900 people and wounding more than 1000 (the number of deaths throughout Gaza is more than 55,000, according to the Ministry of Health.)

After summoning the ceasefire in January, the Israeli military attacks on the health regime in Gaza had landed. the The truce collapsed in MarchThe World Health Organization data has intensified attacks in recent weeks. While the organization occupied five attacks on the health system in Gaza in April, after the first three weeks of May, the number of attacks fell to 21, with at least three other attacks, including on the vicinity of the dialysis center in the Indonesian Hospital on June 1 and June 1 and Strokes on Al -Aqsa and Al -Ahly hospitals On 4 and 5 June. In addition, the fighting near Al -Amal Hospital made it “out of service”, and the World Health Organization said on Monday.

The first attack by NBC News was two months on April 2, when an Israeli air strike hit the UNRWA clinic in Gabalia, north of Gaza City, which included the displaced. The video captured by NBC News was documented on the post -chaos ground: the walls that were crushed to the rubble, charred mattresses, and explosive furniture in fragments. The small body of the child is loaded on a donkey cart to be transferred to the morgue.

In another case, the Israeli Defense Forces struck two hospitals on the same day, May 13, both in Khan Yunis. The video verified by NBC News shows many large smoke columns that rise from the territory of the European Hospital. Palestinian health officials said that at least 16 people were killed and wounded by. He said who said that the facility was forced to suspend the services.

Israeli strike footage at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, appear on May 13.
Israeli strike footage at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, appear on May 13.I got it NBC News

As it struck that day it was Nasser Medical Complex. A video posted by the United Nations showed the scattered debris, the twisted hospital family and damaged equipment. It was the fourth time Nasser was injured during the warAccording to the United Nations, where the last blow killed two people and wounded dozens of others.

In a statement in response to these attacks, the Israeli Defense Army said that its forces targeted a center for leadership and control located in Nasser Hospital and a “underground infrastructure site” under the European Hospital.

The Israeli Defense Army provided evidence of what he said was the Hamas tunnel under the European Hospital. However, no evidence was provided to the leadership and control center in Nasser, or for the following cases, but he said widely: “The terrorist organization Hamas continues to use hospitals in the Gaza Strip for terrorist activity.” NBC News is unable to independently verify the IDF data.

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