Gaza City – Hospital Director In Gaza Says Israeli Military Wrongly Targeted His Building

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    Palestinian Basman Alashi, director of Al-Wafa rehabilitation hospital near Gaza City, speaks with AFP, on July 16, 2014. At the hospital a handful of doctors and nurses hover over paralysed patients, wondering how to protect them from more air strikes as threatened by Israel. The patients lie mostly inert in beds lined up in the hospital's reception, where staff moved them after an Israeli rocket crashed into the fourth floor.  AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX       Gaza City – A hospital director in Gaza said the Israeli military wrongly targeted his hospital, stating the picture the army distributed showing rockets being fired outside of a hospital is not his facility, according to a report by McClatchy Newspapers.

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    The Israeli army released aerial photographs of a rocket being fired from what they say was just outside al Wafa hospital in Gaza City on July 14, but Basman Alashi, director of al Wafa Medical Rehabilitation Hospital, says the photo is of another building a few blocks away from his hospital.

    The hospital is located in an area of Gaza City called Shuja’iya, where the Israeli military says Hamas militant activity is extremely high, including rocket launches and entrances to tunnels Hamas members have used in their attacks against Israel.

    The army said it is investigating Alashi’s claim.

    Alashi says that his hospital has been bombed so severely that he had to evacuate his 16 severely disabled patients and staff.

    “When we first asked them to evacuate the premises it was because we knew it was a command and control center,” said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.

    Lerner also said weapons were stored at the hospital and that the grounds of the building contained several entrances to tunnels used by Hamas.

    On Monday, the Israeli army distributed a video that shows fire allegedly coming from al Wafa, but a spokeswoman for Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem said the video was only released to justify the army’s actions, and that when the building was first bombed last week it was not being used as a base for Hamas activity.

    Information taken from McClatchy DC


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    9 years ago

    then where were the SECONDARY EXPLOSION coming from – if not from weapons under the hospital

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    9 years ago

    Compressed gases like oxygen? Fuel for emergency generators? Hitting a powered-up transformer makes a nice secondary.

    Perhaps the Israelis made a mistake, but we cannot believe this guy’s word. What would you expect him to say?

    9 years ago

    We have to stop taking the words of the arabs so seriously. They are masters at lying and convoluting things. We have to be as self confident in what we are doing as they are in the lies they make up.

    9 years ago

    Relax all.. He was doing it in self-defense…

    ChachoMoe
    ChachoMoe
    9 years ago

    ” Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem said the video was only released to justify the army’s actions, and that when the building was first bombed last week it was not being used as a base for Hamas activity.”

    With friends like BeTslem who needs enemies. its just mind-boggling how far self-hating leftist jews will go out of the way..

    HankM
    HankM
    9 years ago

    What’s he supposed to say, yeah we were harboring missile launchers?

    Benabenja
    Benabenja
    9 years ago

    Oh come on!This hospital was used as a Hamas HQ, with weapons inside and this arab has the chutzpah to just talk about the picture on the leaflet? What a hypocrit and low-moral doctor, director of a hospital, what a shame!

    Dovid_from_Modiin
    Dovid_from_Modiin
    9 years ago

    #9 – You are wrong about “Betzelem” . I know first hand that Betzelem will lie, cheat, and recreate evidence to support their leftist pro-Palestinian position.

    9 years ago

    Relax all.. He was doing it in self-defense…