Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation in The New Yorker .

The view from the destroyed emergency department at Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza.Photographs and videos by the author

Letter from Gaza

Hospitals in Ruins

Doctors are delivering lifesaving care in a ravaged health-care system—and risking their own lives in the process.

By Clayton Dalton

April 18, 2025

 ".... Nasser had been the site of a major attack in February, 2024, when the Israeli military—the I.D.F.—shelled the hospital, cut off its power and oxygen, and raided the building. A doctor told CNN that he was strip-searched. “We are completely besieged,” he said. “We have been without electricity, oxygen, heating, barely any food or water.” Gaza’s health ministry reported that a dozen patients died as a result of the attack; the World Health Organization warned that “further disruption to lifesaving care for the sick and injured would lead to more deaths.”

The I.D.F. told a different story. It said that at Nasser it had found weapons, in addition to medicines meant for Israeli hostages. It also claimed that it had apprehended hundreds of suspected terrorists, including some who had allegedly posed or worked as medical staff. “The operational activity was conducted to ensure minimal disruption to the hospital’s ongoing activities and without harming patients and medical staff,” an I.D.F. statement said. “The IDF will continue to operate in accordance with international law against the Hamas terrorist organization, which systematically operates from hospitals.” At Gaza’s thirty-six hospitals, this dynamic has played out again and again. The I.D.F. has justified the bombing and raiding of hospitals, potential war crimes, by accusing Hamas of war crimes: turning medical centers into “terror hubs” and hiding behind civilian infrastructure. But Israeli officials rarely provide enough evidence for news outlets and international organizations to verify their claims. Hamas has denied using health-care facilities for military purposes...."  READ MORE  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/hospitals-in-ruins?utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned

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Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

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