Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated
Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated
“No child should have to die alone,” a charity said in response to a widely shared TV report that has sent shockwaves on social media.
The cease-fire is over, but not before it offered a glimpse of the war’s horrors to Palestinians in Gaza and people around the world.
As residents used the fragile truce to find aid, search for loved ones under the rubble, and head home to survey the destruction, a particularly disturbing scene emerged.
Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds. A blurred version of the video was shared widely on social media this week, a grim and graphic contrast to other scenes of families reunited as hostages and prisoners were freed.
In a piece he reported, Mohammed Baalousha, a journalist with the Emirati TV channel Al-Mashhad, said he found the decomposing infants when he entered the pediatric ICU in the health facility in Gaza City. The hospital’s staff and critically ill patients were forced to evacuate in early November as the Israeli military focused its ground assault on the city, with hospitals under fire.
NBC News obtained raw footage from the channel and has reviewed its contents.
The world needs to act to curtail Israeli crimes against humanity.
At the very least sanctions and boycotts need to be enforced.
153Don't know if it's Lemmy's low userbase or the libtards accounting for the low upvote count, but I totally agree at least. Jews being slaughtered during WWII definately doesn't give Israel the right to do the same to others any way you look at it.
-65You... Are aware that just as many if not more Republicans support Israel in this conflict too right?
Also the low up vote count was probably just because it was less than an hour old when you commented
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Before someone tries to make the claim, no, the hospital staff couldn't have taken the babies with them. These were premature babies in oxygen-saturated powered incubators, which could not be moved.
Possibly if a fully set up ambulance was available for each baby, it could be done, but the IDF has been bombing ambulances too and there aren't that many available anyways.
121tl;Dr: short of just hitting "fuck it" and transporting these babies in a car or jury-rigging something, there was no way they were getting moved.
I'm a paramedic. The ambulances/gurneys/staff to do this kind of transfer are highly, highly specialized (and also, therefore, expensive). Even in the US, you'll typically just see one for each regional pediatric center, typically covering a range of about 200 miles or a little over 300 km for sane measurement fans. This is not something that any old ambulance service or EMS agency just has laying around. I wouldn't guess you'd find something like that in Gaza at all, given the state of oppression there, much less multiple units, much less in the middle of a military bombardment where they're convinced that they're transporting HAMAS tunnels in ambulances.
70This, and other similar cases, are exactly why civilized countries don't bomb hospitals.
There are many people who are highly immobile in hospitals.
I have no respect for Hamas, but the IDF is at least as bad. They only try to pretend they are civilized.
They always claim Hamas uses hospitals to perform attacks, but their evidence is even less convincing than the WMD evidence Bush used to justify the Iraq invasion.
41There is absolutely no evidence that Hamas was using this hospital to conduct attacks (or frankly any hospital). The Israeli policy is terrorism, plain and simple. The goal is terrorism. The method is terrorism.
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Fucking hell. Like it's actual hell. God damn. Those poor families.
110Hell is full of people that deserve it, war is mostly innocent people. Not exactly the correct quote from M*a*s*h but close enough.
76https://youtu.be/JBt0sgNDQlY?si=jbLJyESNjSolulxO
Here's the 34 second clip! What an amazing show
23I totally get it.
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My son was in NICU. I thought of his time in hospital as soon as the news about the Palestinian hospital broke. This is terrible.
49A real time genocide is going on!
31"Decomposing babies"
Can we just disband Israel already...
30Who cares? They've already been born!
-Pro Life Republicans who support Israel.
15This is the best summary I could come up with:
A blurred version of the video was shared widely on social media this week, a grim and graphic contrast to other scenes of families reunited as hostages and prisoners were freed.
In a piece he reported, Mohammed Baalousha, a journalist with the Emirati TV channel Al-Mashhad, said he found the decomposing infants when he entered the pediatric ICU in the health facility in Gaza City.
UNICEF also warned in early November that “children in Gaza are hanging by a thread, particularly in the north,” and that Al-Nasr Hospital had reportedly sustained damage in an attack that impacted lifesaving equipment.
Doctors at Al Shifa, one of Gaza’s largest hospitals, which faced intense bombardment and raids by Israeli forces last month, struggled to keep dozens of premature babies alive due to power outages.
Both health officials said they notified the International Committee of the Red Cross to help with the patients left behind in the evacuation process but said that the ICRC has been unable to commit to working in such conditions since the beginning of the war.
“This is more evident when taking into account that the IDF assisted in moving newborns from the pediatric ward of the Shifa hospital to safety, as well as provide Israeli incubators in the process,” the statement added.
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10What happened to the IDF coming in and supposedly save all the kids? They couldn't even do their own propaganda op and just left all the babies to die? The israelis are true monsters.
8But hey…it’s all worth it so Evangelical Christians in the US can have their super sacred tiny piece of land that their Messiah is apparently confined to returning to when he does decide to go back to where he was killed(?) or something.
But abortion….naw that’s where they draw the line.
1I went down that rabbit hole when I was trying to understand why the far right was interested in supporting Israel while simultaneously being anti-semitic and working alongside Nazis. Most people in the middle or left don't understand how crazy this is. Many members of our government are literally trying to enact some biblical nestradamus bullshit to bring forth the end of times as described in the book of Revelations.
I'm a liberal Jew so it took a lot of reading to understand what the fuck they wanted end times to come for, but I guess it is so that they are then saved? As a non-Christian this seems weird and obviously cult-like but here we are.
16Baptized Lutheran shortly after birth, but never attended church. It's a long and vaguely racist family story. Don't consider myself Christian.
My in-laws are fundamentalist end times folk, and it took years to try to make sense all of that. I love my husband, but it's a lot to take in. And my brain naturally tends to try to make sense or analyze things, or figure out what's motivating people.
Their older generation are very interested in controlling the people around them and they're very good at it. I think it's control and authority at the heart of it, with a helping of genuine trauma that makes death and reward look appealing.
Actual quote that I've heard a few times: "Life is hard, short, and cruel - and then you die!" \ Let me just say that Christmas visits can get really weird.
On a lighter note, they mailed us a Tribulation Survival Care Package for the 1999 x-mas, ahead of the Y2K impending millennial crisis. That was actually sort of fun, and the shiny space blanket came in handy a few times.
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But did they denounce Hamas?
-2Poor babies.
I'd bet Hamas did not think that far ahead that when they planned their attack.
-12Israel definitely did when they started bombing hospitals. You act like it's Hamas that pulled the trigger for them, but deep down you know that's fucking bullshit.
These babies were killed by Israel, and nobody else.
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Damn y'all love sucking Hamas dick, don't you.
-80Damn y'all love killing babies, don't you.
I don't support Hamas, what's the bet you support Israel?
41Not everything is two teams where one team is the winner and one team is the loser. You don't have to pick a team and automatically everything that team does is good and everything the other team does is bad. Sometimes everything is bad. A bad thing happening to one side, and a bad thing happening to the other side, are both bad things that happened.
There is of course significant nuance, and way more detail in what happens in a real life event. And even when something is "presented" as 2 sides, it's really thousands of sides that only kind of align somewhat with each other on some things.
Having said all that, the vast majority of people think they both shouldn't have killed people on any sides. But there are alot of added up underlying causes. And while many people are constantly trying to solve the problem peacefully, there are other people that either can't wait that long, or don't find peace to be the best way to go for other reasons.
Real life problems are hard to solve, and while people work to solve one, other ones are likely getting more out of hand, or even the one they are working on is. Luckily there are so many of us that are able to work towards solutions, but it certainly helps when there are at least more people trying to solve problems than the amount that are trying to cause them, or ignoring them.
In summary, no we don't suck hamas dick. They did a bad thing too. And while they had reason to be upset, there were certainly better ways to go about it. As is the general case in life, being angry is reasonable, but murdering people due to being angry is not.
38Ah yes, Hamas, the deadly.. checks notes infants in incubators.
You're a bit fucked up if you think this is a justifiable consequence of war or something to celebrate.
21Racist lil shitstain, aintcha
15Israel had a choice about how to respond to the attacks and deal with Hamass. Just like the US and it's allies had a choice about how to respond to 9-11. Killing thousands of innocent people is always going to be the wrong choice. Every time.
10Those babies were not on ANY side.
10Removed under rule 5, no attacking other users.
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