Gaza’s Health Ministry says the official death toll has topped 50,000 as Israel continues to bombard and blockade the territory, but it is widely believed the actual death toll is far higher. On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a surgical unit at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis — the largest functioning hospital in Gaza. The attack killed two people, including Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau. Hamas said he was at the hospital for treatment for injuries suffered in an earlier Israeli strike. A 16-year-old boy was also killed in the hospital attack. The American trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa was at Nasser Hospital at the time of the attack and said the teenager killed was his patient. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa: “You know, I’ve certainly never had a patient injured in an explosion, brought to the hospital, taken care of, doing well, ready to go home, and then blown up in his hospital bed. That’s a first. And that should be what we call in medicine a 'never event.' That’s not really supposed to happen. I just — I can’t emphasize enough, it just doesn’t matter who is in the hospital. It’s not legal to blow it up. It’s not legal to kill people in here. It’s not legal to attack people in here. It’s not ethical. It’s completely crazy.” Click here to see our interviews with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. In a separate strike, Israel blew up the Turkish Friendship Hospital, Gaza’s only specialized cancer hospital. The hospital had been closed since November 2023 due to Israeli attacks. At one point Israeli troops had turned the hospital into a military outpost. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the bombing, saying it was “part of Israel’s policy aimed at rendering Gaza uninhabitable and forcibly displacing the Palestinian people.” In other news on Gaza, Israel’s security cabinet has approved forming what it calls a “Voluntary Emigration Bureau” in Gaza as Israel and the United States push for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the official death toll has topped 50,000 as Israel continues to bombard and blockade the territory, but it is widely believed the actual death toll is far higher. On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a surgical unit at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis — the largest functioning hospital in Gaza. The attack killed two people, including Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau. Hamas said he was at the hospital for treatment for injuries suffered in an earlier Israeli strike. A 16-year-old boy was also killed in the hospital attack. The American trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa was at Nasser Hospital at the time of the attack and said the teenager killed was his patient.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa: “You know, I’ve certainly never had a patient injured in an explosion, brought to the hospital, taken care of, doing well, ready to go home, and then blown up in his hospital bed. That’s a first. And that should be what we call in medicine a ‘never event.’ That’s not really supposed to happen. I just — I can’t emphasize enough, it just doesn’t matter who is in the hospital. It’s not legal to blow it up. It’s not legal to kill people in here. It’s not legal to attack people in here. It’s not ethical. It’s completely crazy.”

      • Zink@programming.dev
        12·
        5 days ago

        Nope. “Stop supporting Israel” was not on the ballot, just like many other good ideas weren’t.

        Voting for Harris was supposed to prevent a whole bunch of other harm, though.

      • gregs_gumption@lemm.eeEnglish
        614·
        5 days ago

        No, voting for Trump was, that’s what Lemmy told me. I’m really glad you guys campaigned for Trump so aggressively. Things are so much better for Gazans, Transgender folks, immigrants, Ukrainians, women, everyone really.

        Thank you so much for teaching the Democrats a lesaon.

        • small44@lemmy.world
          71·
          5 days ago

          You had decades to try to make a valid alternative to the two imperialist parties. You keep getting disapointed and switch between democrats and republicans so they keep ignoring all what you need to improve your countries. Maybe trump will be a blessing in desguise and make you finally pay for all the coups you helped, sll the countries you destroyed and profiting fron your allies. Maybe, countries will stop being dependent of your empire.

          You a fool if in the ground the usa would have opposed anything Israel is doing now now to palestinians

              • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
                15·
                5 days ago

                Yes, cause when the man who literally wants to destroy the country in knocking at the door, NOW is time to start deep cleaning everything

                That time was either waaay before he arrived, or afterwards, not when he’s literally here. Let’s deal with him first, then clean up properly afterwards.

                We tried too much to fix at once, and now everything super messed up.

                • small44@lemmy.world
                  71·
                  5 days ago

                  Believe me if trump ever allow you to have another ligit elections you will keep voting to the same two parties

        • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
          18·
          5 days ago

          Not only did they campain for trump, but literally voting for a plastic bag was a better decision than Harris for them.

          Cause they actually CARED for other people, unlike you and me stupid ignorant Americans who wouldnt even know know freedom if it was on smothered until of out mountain of hotdogs!!! The TRUE patriots made sure the correct Orange man one cause it was the best solution for the world and were just to blinded by our dumb American ideas ruined by our big DUMB cars.

          Maybe one day we can see the right path and start just cursing out people we don’t agree with like true smart educated lemmy commentators