At the beginning of April, the Israeli army said it was carrying out a “precise and limited operation” at the al-Nasser hospital, one of the largest in the Palestinian territory.
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Dozens of bodies were discovered buried in the courtyard of a hospital in Khan Younes targeted by an Israeli army raid, Gaza civil defense said on Sunday April 21. According to this source, some of the bodies found – at least 50 – “were stripped of their clothes, which certainly indicates that they were arrested, tortured and subjected to ill-treatment by the occupying army”. Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army said it was verifying this information.
The IDF withdrew on April 7 from Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after carrying out what it called a “precise and limited operation” in the al-Nasser hospital, one of the largest in the Palestinian enclave. An AFP photographer saw members of the civil defense exhuming human remains in the courtyard of the medical establishment on Sunday. Many Palestinians gathered in front of the hospital, looking for missing relatives.
Netanyahu wants to deal “new hard blows” to Hamas
This macabre discovery comes as Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Sunday that Israel will increase “in the coming days, military and political pressure on Hamas, because this is the only way to free our hostages and achieve our victory”. “We will deal him new hard blows, and it will happen soon”declared the Israeli Prime Minister, in a video message broadcast Sunday evening.
More than six months after the start of the war, triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu remains determined to launch a ground offensive in Rafah. According to the UN, nearly a million and a half displaced Gazans are massed in this city located in the south of the enclave, and which Tel Aviv considers to be the last bastion of Hamas.
On Friday, the G7 reaffirmed its opposition to “a major operation” in Rafah, fearing a bloodbath. According to the latest report from the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 34,000 Palestinians have died since the start of the war. The vast majority of them are civilians.