The ruins of Shifa hospital in Gaza<\/p>\n
The bodies of 80 Palestinians have been uncovered in three mass graves at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where \u201chard evidence\u201d shows some of the victims were \u201cexecuted\u201d at point-blank range during the Israeli military\u2019s horrific\u00a0massacre\u00a0of people and medical staff at the complex in March.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Health Ministry in Gaza said Saturday that three\u00a0mass graves were discovered inside a section of the al-Shifa Hospital complex.<\/p>\n It said there is \u201chard evidence\u201d that some of the victims were \u201cexecuted\u201d at point-blank range, with bullet wounds found in their heads and chests.<\/p>\n The ministry said among those killed in the hospital were four medical staff.<\/p>\n The latest discovery brought the total number of medical staff killed during the regime\u2019s war on the territory to 492.<\/p>\n Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of\u00a0the medical complex that started on March 18.<\/p>\n The total number of bodies that have so far been discovered in such graves in different sites throughout Gaza has reached 520, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n The ministry further said that the regime\u2019s forces have detained 42 medical staff from the hospital, bringing the total number of detained health officials to 310.<\/p>\n It said that the detained medical officials are held in \u201cdire conditions\u201d that threaten their lives.<\/p>\n The ministry called on Tel Aviv to \u201cimmediately release all the medical staff\u2026and to act swiftly to salvage what is left of our medical facility.\u201d<\/p>\n During the regime’s carnage in al-Shifa, the Israeli military admitted that it\u00a0had killed 90 Palestinians and kidnapped 160 others in two days of a\u00a0raid into the\u00a0hospital.<\/p>\n At the time, Gaza\u2019s media office reported that more than 100 aid workers were killed and dozens wounded during eight attacks by the regime\u2019s forces on the medical facility.<\/p>\n Al-Shifa, Gaza\u2019s largest hospital, had sheltered thousands of Palestinians who fled Israel\u2019s hostilities in northern parts of the territory.<\/p>\n The regime\u2019s military forces imposed a two-week siege on the hospital and started a raid, which they claimed only targeted Hamas fighters, who were using the complex as a “command center.”<\/p>\n The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, however, slammed the regime\u2019s claims. It said those who were killed by Israel in the raid on the hospital were patients, medical workers and displaced civilians.<\/p>\n Euro-Med Monitor had estimated that\u00a0over 1,500\u00a0Palestinians were killed, injured, or reported missing as a result of the regime\u2019s massacre at al-Shifa, with women and children making up half of the casualties.<\/p>\n The hospital, which was severely damaged during the raid, now\u00a0lies in ruins.<\/p>\n