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Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: Israel Is Threatening to Bomb Gaza’s Only Pediatric Cancer Unit --- [video, 33 min + transcript] (www.democracynow.org)

submitted 2 years ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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As the U.N. secretary-general repeats his call for an immediate ceasefire, the death toll in Gaza has topped 10,000, including 4,000 children. We speak to an American doctor who just left Gaza and the founder of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which runs the only pediatric cancer unit in Gaza.

Israel has just ordered the hospital with the unit to be fully evacuated. “They’re not getting care right now because their hospitals are under attack,” says PCRF founder Steve Sosebee, who describes medical workers trying to evacuate to Egypt or continuing to provide care while sheltering in the hospital.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They're literally going to destroy or damage all buildings large enough to house any significant number of people, and certainly all care centers, to try to force Palestinians to accept resettlement elsewhere, or to ensure they all die of lack of resources.

It's illegal to attack hospitals, regardless of whether you "give them notice" of the attack or not. Fucking criminals.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Another Nakba? Israeli Intel Ministry Proposes Expelling Every Palestinian in Gaza to Egypt

A leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry dated less than one week after the October 7 Hamas attack proposes the permanent transfer of Gaza’s residents to Egypt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the document’s authenticity but dismissed it as a mere “concept paper,” [...]

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And US politicians call anti-Israel protesters antisemitic. Fucking hell.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

If Israel keeps this shit up it'll be an apt enough reference eventually.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Have you considered that those children might be Hamas?