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Last functioning hospital in Northern Gaza is stormed by the IDF

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Whatsinanamehey · 27/12/2024 10:43

If it wasn't already clear that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the north of Gaza, then this is the final straw.

IDF soldiers have posted countless videos mocking at the destruction they have caused in the north. The north of Gaza has suffered massacre after massacre at the hands of Israel and after repeatedly targeting the Kamal Adwan hospital, they have now forced them to evacuate after bombing and killing several medics.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx26v70n5z4o.amp

The photo is washed in grey from dust in the air. One man in a cap and face mask bends down, looking into a pile of rubble

Israel orders evacuation of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza, medics say - BBC News

The hospital's nursing director says ICU patients in comas and on ventilation machines are being forced out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx26v70n5z4o.amp

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Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 10:33

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:29

They don't have a massive GCHQ they are terrorists that move around and fight using guerrilla warfare tactics. Small cells or groups, quick moving, like in Afghanistan. Very challenging to defeat, probably impossible.

Well that's where you are wrong. The IDF showed CGI images of a proper HQ under al-shifa and used that to justify the bombing, attacking and invading of it. The article you posted actually pointed that out and said critics have rightly said the IDF have shown no proof of most of what they claimed.

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Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 10:30

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:21

Are you saying that the tunnel shown in the article, that has been mapped and pictured should be taken with 'a pinch of salt' they have been verified. Its clear that they are there even though people deny them. How much they are now used is not proven though, unless someone knows otherwise. It might have been easier to block.them up so that hamas couldn't use them , that would make sense imo

Is that in reference to the bunke that the former Israeli PM disclosed that Israel built under al shifa hospital?

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Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:29

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 10:21

I don't see any proof of a Hamas HQ.

They don't have a massive GCHQ they are terrorists that move around and fight using guerrilla warfare tactics. Small cells or groups, quick moving, like in Afghanistan. Very challenging to defeat, probably impossible.

EasterIssland · 08/01/2025 10:28

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:21

Are you saying that the tunnel shown in the article, that has been mapped and pictured should be taken with 'a pinch of salt' they have been verified. Its clear that they are there even though people deny them. How much they are now used is not proven though, unless someone knows otherwise. It might have been easier to block.them up so that hamas couldn't use them , that would make sense imo

What im saying that anything from Israel is unbiased. Allow independent organisations in Gaza so they can verify what is really happening and whether there is enough reason to request to empty hospitals. There is not enough reason to torture and kill any doctors or nursery or patients

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:26

Lalaloveya · 08/01/2025 10:19

Proof of Hamas having a command centre. A previous poster said the evidence existed, they just didn't feel like posting it. I commented on that.

What is a command centre in guerilla warfare?

"As modern guerrilla leaders have discovered, undue expansion may result in security failures and in partial loss of control, as has been the case in Northern Ireland, Colombia, and Palestine. Urban guerrilla units for the most part have remained small and more tightly organized in a cellular structure that, from a security standpoint, has proved valid over the decades—as is witnessed by the September 11 suicide attacks by al-Qaeda."

Small group, moves around, little infrastructure, communication by pager or phone, move equipment with you, you don't need a huge amount of equipment to coordinate attacks! The bigger they are the easier to destroy. Guerilla warfare is notoriously difficult to fight.

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:21

EasterIssland · 08/01/2025 08:42

Classified Israeli intelligence documents

that to me means it can be unbiased and to take it with a pinch of salt.

Are you saying that the tunnel shown in the article, that has been mapped and pictured should be taken with 'a pinch of salt' they have been verified. Its clear that they are there even though people deny them. How much they are now used is not proven though, unless someone knows otherwise. It might have been easier to block.them up so that hamas couldn't use them , that would make sense imo

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 10:21

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:17

No one said it did. Someone asked for proof again.

I don't see any proof of a Hamas HQ.

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Lalaloveya · 08/01/2025 10:19

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:17

No one said it did. Someone asked for proof again.

Proof of Hamas having a command centre. A previous poster said the evidence existed, they just didn't feel like posting it. I commented on that.

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 10:17

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:52

Oh for goodness sakes, tunnels under Gaza is not a new revelation. The IDF 'uncovering' tunnels is not proof of anything. And it by no means justifes bombing and destroying hospitals which only increases the collective punishment of the Gazans as a whole.

No one said it did. Someone asked for proof again.

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 09:11

Exactly.
The attacks on healthcare, critical infrastructure, the increased bombing of residential areas including tent camps in humanitarian zones coupled with blocking and denying humanitarian aid for long periods of time is collective punishment.
If you feel really really uncomfortable to acknowledge that it's a genocide then at the least any person with basic understanding would know that it is punishment of a people as a whole for the crimes of Hamas.

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Auvergne63 · 08/01/2025 09:11

Lalaloveya · 08/01/2025 09:03

I think we all know about the tunnels in Gaza.

If you're going to kill patients and medical staff and destroy a hospital I'd expect evidence of Hamas running the hospital as some form of justification for that. Otherwise it's a war crime.

I think that is the rule on targeting civilian infrastructures. Solid evidence needs to be provided. Saying Hamas is there is not enough.

Lalaloveya · 08/01/2025 09:03

I think we all know about the tunnels in Gaza.

If you're going to kill patients and medical staff and destroy a hospital I'd expect evidence of Hamas running the hospital as some form of justification for that. Otherwise it's a war crime.

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:59

Still waiting for evidence of the elaborate Hamas HQ in hospitals that the IDF have been claiming to further their attacks for over a year, yet have never managed a single picture of any of them.

Atleast ten hospitals bombed but no HQ. They did take a detailed video of a calender though so maybe we should just be satisfied with that.

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Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:56

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EasterIssland · 08/01/2025 08:56

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:52

Oh for goodness sakes, tunnels under Gaza is not a new revelation. The IDF 'uncovering' tunnels is not proof of anything. And it by no means justifes bombing and destroying hospitals which only increases the collective punishment of the Gazans as a whole.

and torturing and killing doctors, nurses and patients

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:52

Oh for goodness sakes, tunnels under Gaza is not a new revelation. The IDF 'uncovering' tunnels is not proof of anything. And it by no means justifes bombing and destroying hospitals which only increases the collective punishment of the Gazans as a whole.

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EasterIssland · 08/01/2025 08:42

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 08:39

"Classified Israeli intelligence documents, obtained and reviewed by The Times, indicate that the tunnel is at least 700 feet long, twice as long as the military revealed publicly, and that it extends beyond the hospital and likely connects to Hamas’s larger underground network."

It may/may not be a command centre but it is clear that underground tunnels with living areas exist.

It is also clear that hamas still operate, still fire rockets and are able to move around.

Classified Israeli intelligence documents

that to me means it can be unbiased and to take it with a pinch of salt.

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 08:39

"Classified Israeli intelligence documents, obtained and reviewed by The Times, indicate that the tunnel is at least 700 feet long, twice as long as the military revealed publicly, and that it extends beyond the hospital and likely connects to Hamas’s larger underground network."

It may/may not be a command centre but it is clear that underground tunnels with living areas exist.

It is also clear that hamas still operate, still fire rockets and are able to move around.

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:28

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:14

I heard the sad news this morning that Dr Hussam's mother died last night from a heart attack. Sadly, it seems the stress of his abduction may have had a factor in her deteriorating health.

No news on Dr Hussam yet if he will be released or allowed legal representation.

Dr Hussam with his late mother. May she be re-united with her loved ones who have also passed.

Last functioning hospital in Northern Gaza is stormed by the IDF
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Lalaloveya · 08/01/2025 08:19

SharonEllis · 08/01/2025 07:46

Exactly. A guerilla war is always horrific and protracted and we have seen tons of evidence of the tunnel network and how Hamas use it and as you say we knew about it before 7/10. We keep being told everything is destroyed. Israel is all powerful but somehow also remarkably inefficient and incompetent while also having magical powers to keep destroying things that are already destroyed and despite destroying 'everything' the hostages cant be found. The criticism of Israel is so inconsistent and morphs into whatever people want Israel to be to support an argument at any given time. When you try to pin the facts or argument down to something meaningful the goalposts move and it can't discussed because by even wanting to look at facts or evidence you are revealing that you don't care about dying babies and 'genocide'. Its emotional manipulation and its not really about the victims at all. Im not suggesting that there is nothing to criticise Israel for but there's no point in a conversation with someone whose only setting is Israel is wrong about everything and is an evil genocidal machine.

There is loads of evidence of Hamas's tunnels, that there are tunnels under hospitals, that there are Hamas personnel in hospitals etc. No Im not going to spend my time digging it up and posting it because the people that need to see it wont look at it anyway and I've got other things to do. If you're saying there is no evidence then you are either so incurious you haven't looked, or you've seen it and don't want to believe it. Sensible people know how to do research & will do it anyway.

There is evidence you just don't want to post it. OK 👍

Dulra · 08/01/2025 08:18

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 07:51

You make good points but many won't listen and don't see the contradictions in what they say. Hamas still operate, it is guerilla warfare with them.moving hiding and using their people. It's a mess with much suffering. Meanwhile terrorists still run the place and still hold hostages which they cannot even bother to say if they are actually alive or dead, they keep changing what they say.

but many won't listen and don't see the contradictions in what they say.
Who are you referring to here?

Just concerned by these massive sweeping statements with no clarity on who you are both talking about. Very difficult to address your points without that

@ScrollingLeaves It is very confusing to know what is and what is not true.
a. Are Hamas so stupid they really think they won’t be targeted in a hospital and so they use them as command and control centres?
or
b. Has he been coerced in some way to say this?

I agree with this and again it is frustrating that there are no independent observers in Gaza to add some sort of neutral independent perspective. I do keep going back to the numerous witness statements from those international medics that have worked in the hospitals and returned home and their evidence that they did not see Hamas operating from hospitals. The UN has stated that the Israeli attacks are pushing the Gaza healthcare towards total collapse and there does not seem to be any plan from Israel on how they will rectify this.

Whatsinanamehey · 08/01/2025 08:14

I heard the sad news this morning that Dr Hussam's mother died last night from a heart attack. Sadly, it seems the stress of his abduction may have had a factor in her deteriorating health.

No news on Dr Hussam yet if he will be released or allowed legal representation.

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Dulra · 08/01/2025 08:10

SharonEllis · 08/01/2025 07:46

Exactly. A guerilla war is always horrific and protracted and we have seen tons of evidence of the tunnel network and how Hamas use it and as you say we knew about it before 7/10. We keep being told everything is destroyed. Israel is all powerful but somehow also remarkably inefficient and incompetent while also having magical powers to keep destroying things that are already destroyed and despite destroying 'everything' the hostages cant be found. The criticism of Israel is so inconsistent and morphs into whatever people want Israel to be to support an argument at any given time. When you try to pin the facts or argument down to something meaningful the goalposts move and it can't discussed because by even wanting to look at facts or evidence you are revealing that you don't care about dying babies and 'genocide'. Its emotional manipulation and its not really about the victims at all. Im not suggesting that there is nothing to criticise Israel for but there's no point in a conversation with someone whose only setting is Israel is wrong about everything and is an evil genocidal machine.

There is loads of evidence of Hamas's tunnels, that there are tunnels under hospitals, that there are Hamas personnel in hospitals etc. No Im not going to spend my time digging it up and posting it because the people that need to see it wont look at it anyway and I've got other things to do. If you're saying there is no evidence then you are either so incurious you haven't looked, or you've seen it and don't want to believe it. Sensible people know how to do research & will do it anyway.

When you try to pin the facts or argument down to something meaningful the goalposts move and it can't discussed because by even wanting to look at facts or evidence you are revealing that you don't care about dying babies and 'genocide'. Its emotional manipulation and its not really about the victims at all. Im not suggesting that there is nothing to criticise Israel for but there's no point in a conversation with someone whose only setting is Israel is wrong about everything and is an evil genocidal machine.

Can I just clarify who are you accusing of emotional manipulation? and what do you mean by its not really about the victims at all?

Aibuquestiononrelationship · 08/01/2025 07:51

SharonEllis · 08/01/2025 07:46

Exactly. A guerilla war is always horrific and protracted and we have seen tons of evidence of the tunnel network and how Hamas use it and as you say we knew about it before 7/10. We keep being told everything is destroyed. Israel is all powerful but somehow also remarkably inefficient and incompetent while also having magical powers to keep destroying things that are already destroyed and despite destroying 'everything' the hostages cant be found. The criticism of Israel is so inconsistent and morphs into whatever people want Israel to be to support an argument at any given time. When you try to pin the facts or argument down to something meaningful the goalposts move and it can't discussed because by even wanting to look at facts or evidence you are revealing that you don't care about dying babies and 'genocide'. Its emotional manipulation and its not really about the victims at all. Im not suggesting that there is nothing to criticise Israel for but there's no point in a conversation with someone whose only setting is Israel is wrong about everything and is an evil genocidal machine.

There is loads of evidence of Hamas's tunnels, that there are tunnels under hospitals, that there are Hamas personnel in hospitals etc. No Im not going to spend my time digging it up and posting it because the people that need to see it wont look at it anyway and I've got other things to do. If you're saying there is no evidence then you are either so incurious you haven't looked, or you've seen it and don't want to believe it. Sensible people know how to do research & will do it anyway.

You make good points but many won't listen and don't see the contradictions in what they say. Hamas still operate, it is guerilla warfare with them.moving hiding and using their people. It's a mess with much suffering. Meanwhile terrorists still run the place and still hold hostages which they cannot even bother to say if they are actually alive or dead, they keep changing what they say.

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