Overloaded Gaza hospitals short of power, fuel, medicine; may be forced to shut down

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I wonder why medical facilities might be targeted. Oh, right, they make great human shields. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital

Let's just kill all these human shields.

Surely that will help this conflict.

It doesn't make any sense.

Israel just calls everything a terrorist or human shield to justify their war crimes.

Hamas is not launching attacks from hospitals. If they are, then there would be evidence.

Hamas is not launching attacks from hospitals. If they are, then there would be evidence.

Not sure about launching rockets from hospitals, but Hamas have apparently been using the hospital that OP cited as a torture center, even the Palestinian Authority says so (because some of their members were claimed to have been tortured by Hamas terrorists in that same hospital).

Can you provide a source for that?

The relevant part, towards the end of the article:

Some were interrogated and tortured or otherwise ill-treated in a disused outpatient’s clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital.

Sounds like they were using an empty building on hospital grounds, 9 years ago.

Like, I get what you're saying, but that still doesn't make it okay to attack the primary - and most active - hospital in the area (9 years after the fact).

Edit: But, also, holy shit fuck you Hamas, and your fucking Shariah courts.

It’s interesting how all sorts of stories from 9 years ago get warmed up these days to show the war crimes of one side. Makes me zone out

Im realizing all these comments about hamas hiding in protected locations, are just accusing them of hiding in their own country. Like its just a given that Israel has to bomb Gaza, why dont they just go stand in an open field?