Mark Regev, a former Israeli ambassador to London and currently the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s adviser, told Channel 4 that Israel believes that Hamas has “established its command and control” under the hospital.
Israel has previously claimed that Hamas is using civilians as human shields in Gaza by placing parts of its military tunnel system and command network under civilian objects including Gaza City’s Dar al-Shifa hospital.
Regev was speaking after Israeli forces attacked an ambulance at al-Shifa hospital that it claimed “was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell.”
Gaza’s health ministry said Israel had targeted “a convoy carrying injured people in ambulance vehicles” leaving al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. It said the attack killed 15 people and injured 60 others.
Even if Hamas were using the ambulance to commit harmful acts, Israel’s attack may not necessarily have been legitimate under the laws of war, Brian Finucane, senior adviser to the US programme at the International Crisis Group, told the Washington Post.
Given the apparent civilian harm caused by the strike adjacent to al-Shifa hospital, this attack raises serious questions about compliance with the law of war, including but not limited to how the IDF is assessing excessive harm to civilians when striking targets it regards as lawful.
You can only hope people see this barbarity and towering arrogance and realise that's what's behind the mask of the "only democracy in the middle-east".
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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