Gaza (Quds News Network)- Satellite imagery obtained by a Palestinian journalist shows the Israeli military using the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza as a base of operations.The satellite imagery obtained by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi which shows Israel’s using of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza as a base of operations. [Credit: Younis Tirawi on X]
The satellite imagery, obtained by Younis Tirawi, reveals more than a dozen Israeli military vehicles parked on the premises of the hospital grounds.
Tirawi said that the hospital is being used as a “headquarters” by the Israeli military, “where soldiers operate and hide behind”.
On Monday, Israel forcibly evacuated the Indonesian Hospital, and then on Tuesday stormed the hospital and forced anyone inside to leave the premises.
The Israeli military has repeatedly justified operations against medical facilities in Gaza with claims that they were being used by Hamas.
However, earlier this month, the top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Andrew Cayley, who is leading the Palestine investigation said that claims about the presence of Hamas fighters in hospitals in Gaza under siege by Israel’s military have been “grossly exaggerated”.
According to the latest figures published by the World Health Organization (WHO), of the 35 hospitals in Gaza it has evaluated only 17 are described as “partially functioning”. Five are “fully damaged” and 13 are categorised as “non-functional”.
Cayley said the ICC faced “great difficulty assessing” the level of Hamas fighters presence in hospitals “because clearly there are lies being spoken, but that is really something we do need to get to the bottom of as a prosecution office”.
He added: “I think that has been grossly exaggerated, but we need to be able to demonstrate very clearly what the level of military presence was, if at all, in these hospitals because I think we’ve been misled about that in the press.”
On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, forcing patients, the wounded, and medical staff to leave, arresting others, including the hospital director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and torching large sections.
The hospital was running out of any meaningful medical care, given the hardship and the fact the past two months have been very strict in terms of what can enter the northern part of Gaza as there is a complete siege, military siege, on the area with no humanitarian aid – medical supplies, water, or life-sustaining resources – available to people there because of the ongoing deliberate prevention by the Israeli military.
Hospitals, as well as medical infrastructure and personnel, have specific protections under international humanitarian law. Attacks against them are prohibited, but there are certain circumstances in which medical facilities can lose their protected status if they are used for combat activity.
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