Al-Shifa hospital has received a phone call telling them a building of the hospital will be bombed.
At 16:30, the hospital received a call from an unlisted number, stating a building needed to be evacuated immediately.
The building is being used for overflow patients, and is directly across the road from the main hospital building. It is part of the hospital site, but building work has yet to be completed.
The hospital is now in the process of evacuating all staff and patients inside.
“I’d like to say that Israel’s threats to bomb Gaza’s largest hospital have reached a new low, but in light of its relentless atrocities and civilian massacres over the last 25 days, it’s hardly unexpected,” stated Joe Catron, U.S. International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist now in al-Shifa hospital.
Since July 25th, international volunteers from countries including Spain, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia, and Venezuela have begun a constant protective presence in various locations at the al-Shifa Hospital.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, as of July 29th, there have been 34 attacks against Gazan medical facilities since this latest Israeli military assault began 25 days ago.
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Hey UN, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Obama– did you hear that phone call?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712656/Israel-Hamas-agree-72-hour-humanitarian-ceasefire-starting-morning.html
‘If we don’t get our soldier back, we should start levelling Gaza’: Palestinians face new wave of bloodshed as ceasefire breaks down after British-Israeli soldier is ‘kidnapped by Hamas’
*Plus…Israeli official on CNN said….. “Gaza hasnt seen nothing yet!!!”
It’s likely the phone call originated in Washington.
This is a sick Crime against humanity, the sick thing is that israel have fooled the naive west that they are so peaceful and now we see the results…
Israel, a state actor, and blatant disregard for international law. Pre-announced war crimes.