Posted on 10/29/2023 5:15:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of people including young children and babies line the corridors of a Gaza City hospital, which the Israeli authorities have ordered to evacuate, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
In footage released by the rescue service, youngsters as well as adults and elderly people are seen throughout the crowded building sat down or laying on mattresses, some with small piles of belongings or clothes hanging on doors.
There is no sign those sheltering inside al Quds hospital are following Israeli orders to evacuate, which were made in two calls on Sunday, according to the PRCS which said airstrikes have hit as close as 50 metres away.
A doctor from north London, who is working at al Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, also said there were no plans to evacuate.
"Nobody's left Shifa, nobody's leaving anywhere," Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah told Sky News in a voice note.
"People have now realised with all the killing that's happened in the southern part and nobody wants to move."
He said medics are running out of basic supplies such as gauze and post-operation medications, including intravenous paracetamol.
"You keep thinking it's not going to get worse but it does get worse," he said following a communications blackout in the territory after bombing cut telephone and internet connections on Friday.
"We're now at 19,000 wounded, two days of no communication just meant the most basic thing of trying to find somebody, of calling somebody, of asking someone to come to the operating room became a nightmare.
"The ambulances would just head in the general direction of the bombing to see if they can find any of the victims."
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Those who have refused to leave did so willingly.....I suspect they think they might die for their cause. I’m not buying Hamas is holding them all back.
Yep....they know what Hamas is about and have for years.....they were in the strets supporting them in 2006 for the elections and have remained doing so all this time.
All those still in Northern Gaza are supporting Hamas.
They willingly allow themselves to be ‘shields’ ...so they can be honored for giving their life to Allah.
They did, sort of .... In 2006 Hamas, an Islamist party, beat Fatah, a secular movement, 44% to 42%. A coalition government was formed --- when less than a year later, after much violence, Hamas broke the coalition agreement and took control of the government.
There hasn't been an election in Gaza since then.
All the polling says that now, given a choice, a large majority of them would still choose Hamas.
Choice? Did the "polling" happen to mention the opposition party? 🤔
They can leave the hospital / hospital grounds, I agree. Where they could go to be safer is pretty questionable, though.
In 2006 Hamas, an Islamist party, beat Fatah, a secular movement, 44% to 42%. A coalition government was formed -— and less than a year later, after much violence, Hamas broke the coalition agreement and took control of the government.
There hasn’t been an election in Gaza since then.
Why do you believe Gazans have a choice in anything -— including becoming a human shield?
Fatah isn’t and can’t be secular, not in the western sense, as Islam allows no separation of mosque and state. They are just a less blatant example of Eastern Shiv to contrast with Western Civ. Islamo Delenda Est
Protecting ‘innocent’ ‘civilians’ are Judeo-Christian concepts not found in Islam.
Don’t care.
Won’t care.
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OTOH, Hamas has controlled the education since 2007, and Gaza has a very young population. So, hatred of Israel is kind of a given. If, on Oct. 1, a poll had been done asking how Gazans would feel about Hamas if Hamas attacked Israel as it did, and drew the retribution it did, how would the results go? I don't know.
Now, 3 weeks into being actually being pounded, do Gazans see Hamas as being the cause? I don't know...
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