Civil defence teams in Gaza are pictured after discovering a third mass grave in the vicinity of al-Shifa hospital on 8 May 2024 (Screengrab/YouTube)
Middle East Eye – May 8, 2024
A third mass grave has been discovered in the ruins of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Palestinian enclave.
At least 49 bodies have been recovered so far from the mass grave, the government media office in Gaza said on Wednesday.
“Government crews are still recovering more bodies until now,” it said. “The exhumation operations have not finished, and we expect to find dozens of new bodies.”
Footage shared online by local journalists showed bodies being uncovered and examined by civil defence teams amid the wreckage of the medical facility, which has been ravaged by Israeli attacks.
Israeli forces withdrew from al-Shifa in early April, after a two-week seige that left the entire complex destroyed and piles of bodies in its wake
Israeli officials said at the time that their forces arrested 900 people and killed 200 “terrorists” without harming civilians or medical personnel. Medical organisations and eyewitnesses strongly rejected the claim.
Gaza’s government media office said 400 people were killed by Israeli forces in al-Shifa, including “wounded, sick, and displaced people”. It said hundreds of people were still missing.
“Some of these bodies were found in pieces, some of these bodies were found without heads,” Motassem Salah, director of the health ministry’s emergency operations centre, told reporters on Wednesday.
Salah said that the ministry’s emergency team did not have the necessary personnel or equipment to document evidence of alleged Israeli crimes committed at the hospital.
“It sadly took us weeks to find these bodies,” he said. “The stench of death still exuded from al-Shifa.”
Seven mass graves have been uncovered across the Gaza Strip during the course of the war: three in al-Shifa, three in southern Gaza’s Nasser hospital and one in Kamal Adwan hospital in the north.
‘We hold international community responsible’
In total, 520 bodies have been found in these graves, according to Palestinian officials.
“We hold the American administration, the international community, and the Israeli occupation fully responsible for these mass graves and this blatant aggression against humanity,” the media office said on Wednesday.
In mid-April, during the discovery of an earlier mass grave at al-Shifa, an Al Jazeera Arabic reporter at the scene said several bodies were found, including at least one person wearing underwear who appeared to have been “executed recently”.
Days later, at least 200 bodies were retrieved from mass graves in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The government media office said at the time that some bodies had been decapitated.
Rescue teams said some bodies were found with their hands bound behind their backs. Middle East Eye could not independently verify the reported conditions of the bodies. Israel denied it executed Palestinians at the hospital.
The European Union has called for an independent probe into mass graves at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals.
“This is something that forces us to call for an independent investigation of all the suspicions and all the circumstances, because indeed it creates the impression that there might have been violations of international human rights committed,” EU spokesman Peter Stano said.
The Palestinian health ministry said 55 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of those killed in Gaza to 34,844 since the war began on 7 October.
At least 78,404 others have been wounded since then, the ministry said.
Just what does it take to wake up the world to what is happening in Palestine when even Jews are protesting their government and leader.
Genocide is genocide – intentionally destroying part or all of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing people or by other methods.
U.S., U.K., E.U., and U.N. legislation prohibits it.
So what are we missing here? Someone is committing heinious crimes and everybody appears to be failing to react.
Perhaps if there is a God we are overdue for an intervention?
Funny stuff they say it might have been violations of international law wtf after 41 thousand murdered and more are still being found. I might have been I say it has been and is clear to see that this is a genocide.
If this is true, then Israel has acted worse than the NAZI’s during WWII. I am sicken from reading this news. I always held Israel to a higher standard than the terrorists but now I just don’t know. An independent organization needs to investigate this.
This talmudic cult has to be taken off. Just one look at them and they all look fanatical, evil. Karma will take over soon. One can see why this cult was hated throughout history. This evil cult lakes any decent human qualities.
Today’s newsletter from Redacted reports: ‘An alleged Israeli Mossad agent was assassinated in Alexandria, Egypt. The assassin said “Shalom, Shalom from the children of Gaza” before opening fire.’
https://redacted.inc/newsletter/clown-world-may-09-2024/
The Jews. What can be said? Words are insufficient to describe the evil of Jewry. They are the Devil incarnate. This mad dog needs to be put down for good. Jewry is & has been the mortal enemy of Humanity.
How ’bout a Tactical Nuke on the Knesset in Tel Aviv? Go after the “settlers” and kill them to the last scumbag. Cleanse Palestine of the Jew Devils.
Wholesale massacre folks….normally these fiends like to concentrate on the intelligentsia to reduce the potential of a nation/race etc.
That’s the reason behind (just for example) the Katyn forest massacre in Poland….there are other examples….like the series of Iranian scientists.
The world is slowly becoming acquainted with the REAL nature of these fiends….it will take some years for the anger to reach boiling point.
jews just look like human beeings and in less
politicaly hysteric times one could talk with
them like with ordinary goyim [superficialy] .
but now they have openly shown to the world
their true hyenical nature that they already
hiddenly have shown [Beirut port nuking,Bali
nuking,Fukushima nuking, 9.11.WTC NY nuking,
Madrid Atoja bomb,London metro,Paris Bataclan.
Notre Dame, Paradise lasering, Lahaina lasering etc].
“Perhaps if there is a God we are overdue for an intervention”
Perhaps the time has come for humanity to stand up for THEMSELVES and clean their chosen earthly house they seem to occupy of all the excrement’s that have been kept among them since the self chosen fall from grace. It might be a little difficult to grasp but IF there is a God who are the ones who doubt it but at the same time expect to be saved by a Supreme Being that cleans up their mess along the way of (d)evolution, again and again? What a grotesque world man has chosen over God.
sorry , seems Paradise Calif. fire + Lahaina
fire stem from typical american bad habit
to keep electrical powerlines over the earth
instead of under earth like everywhere in
europa . further the bad habit of most private
owners to build their houses mostly by wood
material . in europa we build mostly in stone !