Doctor Says IDF Executed Medical Staff Point Blank In Al-Shifa Hospital Operation [Video]

Doctors Without Borders intensive care Paediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan told Sky News that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are “systematically” targeting healthcare workers and that soldiers “executed” doctors “point blank” during the operation at al-Shifa hospital over the weekend.

The Gaza health ministry said the assault on the medical complex in Gaza City, which lasted two weeks and concluded over the weekend, left the facilities “completely out of service.” As Israeli troops withdrew from the area, graphic images emerged of the devastated buildings as Palestinians retrieved bodies of those killed, including bodies half-buried in churned up mud where armoured vehicles reportedly drove.

The IDF said that it killed 200 “terrorists” and detained hundreds more during the operation, claiming that Hamas had used the hospital as a base to regroup. The Hamas-run Gaza media office denied the presence of their fighters in the complex and said that Israeli troops killed around 400 Palestinians around the hospital, including a female doctor and her son, also a …