The 12th day of the War: Israel committed a horrible massacre by targeting a hospital full of patients

Medical and local sources announced that more than 30 people were killed, at dawn, Wednesday, in artillery, air and sea bombardment, which included all areas of the Gaza Strip.

The sources explained to the Palestinian News Agency that about 30 people were killed after targeting several homes in the northern Gaza Strip, while at least two citizens were martyred in a bombing that targeted a bakery in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The sources indicated that this bakery provides bread to the people of the camp and to the displaced from the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.

The sources added that three people were martyred, including a child, in a bombing that targeted a residential apartment in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

The intense artillery, air and sea bombardment targeted the North Gaza Governorate, specifically the Jabalia area, the Nuseirat camp, the Yarmouk neighborhood in central Gaza City, and an area in the al Zaytoun neighborhood close to the site of the Baptist Hospital, which was bombed by Israel, causing hundreds of deaths and injuries.

The bombing also targeted citizens’ homes in the governorates of the southern Gaza Strip, Rafah and Khan Yunis, causing several casualties.

The Israeli army urged residents of Gaza City to move south on Wednesday, saying in a new evacuation warning that there was a “humanitarian zone” where aid was available in al Mawasi, located 28 kilometers down the coast of the Palestinian Strip.

An army post on social media said, “The Israeli army calls on the residents of Gaza City to evacuate their homes and head south for their safety”.

Regarding the Hospital massacre that shook the world, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Ashraf al Qudra, said that most of the victims of the massacre  at Baptist Hospital in Gaza were children and women whose features were absent.

This came in statements by the Ministry’s spokesman posted on Facebook, commenting on the Israeli bombing that targeted the vicinity of the Arab National (Baptist) Hospital in Gaza, resulting in the death of more than 1000 Palestinians.

The Baptist Hospital massacre is unparalleled and cannot be described, as hundreds of victims arrived at the hospital and ambulance crews are still removing the body parts, according to the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Ashraf al Qudra.

He continued, “Most of the victims of the Baptist massacre were children and women whose features were absent… The victims arrived without heads, with torn body parts, and entrails out”.

He added: “The torrent of victims and the type of injuries exceeded the capabilities of medical teams and ambulances… Doctors were performing surgeries on the ground and in the corridors, some of them without anesthesia”.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Ashraf al Qudra explained that a large number of those injured in the hospital bombing are still waiting for operations, and the rest of the medical teams are trying to save their lives in intensive care.

He pointed out that the remaining treatment capabilities have only a few hours to go before we announce their actual exhaustion.

For its part, the Anti-Disinformation Center of the Turkish Presidency’s Communications Department refuted the claim circulating on social media that the official Gaza account admits that Hamas was the one that carried out the attack on the Baptist Hospital.

This came in a statement issued by the center on Tuesday, regarding the allegations circulating about the bombing of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians.

The statement said that the claim circulated by social media accounts that (the official Gaza account admits that Hamas carried out the attack on the hospital) is incorrect.

The statement stated that the Gaza Report account cited as the basis for this claim isn’t the official account of Gaza or any Palestinian institution.

“It turns out that the account is being used for manipulation purposes”.

The statement called for not paying attention to baseless allegations.

The Center also refuted the validity of what is being circulated on some social media outlets, about the appearance of one of the shells fired towards Israel hitting the hospital during a live broadcast on Qatar based, Al Jazeera channel.

The center said in this regard, “The allegations circulated by some accounts on social media regarding the fall of one of the shells fired towards Israel on the hospital, on Al Jazeera’s live broadcast, are incorrect, and in the news that is being circulated as a basis for this claim, the attacks are talked about Israeli”.

According to the Turkish Center for Combating Disinformation stated that the former digital media official for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hanania Naftali, published a post in which she announced that the Israeli Air Force struck a hospital in Gaza, immediately after the Israeli attack on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza.

Naftali deleted this post shortly after, and posted another claiming that the missile that hit the hospital was launched from Gaza, in an attempt to mislead world public opinion.

The Turkish Anti-Disinformation Center stated that the account opened in the name of Farida Khan, who identifies himself as working as a journalist for Al Jazeera, and who said that the missile that hit the hospital was launched from Gaza, turned out to be an account that had nothing to do with Al Jazeera and was used for manipulation purposes.

The Turkish Anti-Disinformation Center also refuted the allegations circulated about Türkiye sending fruits and vegetables to Israel, saying, “Contrary to what was reported in the relevant news, Türkiye, as a country, doesn’t provide any assistance to Israel.

Providing maritime trade exchanges between independent companies in accordance with the agreements concluded between them, while Türkiye is providing assistance to Israel, is nothing but deception.

On the other hand, an Israeli army spokesman said only that “all the details aren’t yet available” regarding what happened in the hospital.

The hospital bombing sparked a widespread wave of condemnation in many capitals, with calls for the need to provide protection for the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation.

For his part, US President Joe Biden said, at dawn on Wednesday, that he had directed his special team to collect information about the circumstances of the bombing of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Biden said in a blog post on his account on X platform, “I feel angry and deeply saddened by the explosion that occurred in the Arab National (Baptist) Hospital in Gaza, and the resulting huge loss of life”.

He added, “As soon as I heard this news, I spoke with Jordanian King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and I directed my national security team to continue collecting information about exactly what happened”.

Biden stressed in his blog post that his country unequivocally supports protecting the lives of civilians during conflict.

He added, “We mourn the patients, medical workers, and other innocent people who were killed or injured in this tragedy”.

For the twelfth day in a row, Israel continues to launch intensive raids on Gaza, cutting off water, electricity, food and medicine supplies to the Strip, which sparked local and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe, in parallel with intense Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns of the occupied West Bank.

Even before the current war, the population of Gaza, about 2.2 million Palestinians, suffered from extremely deteriorating living conditions, as a result of an ongoing Israeli siege since Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006.