AP – The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone on Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital. Shells hissed through the hospital courtyard and crashed into wards while Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants […]
In this Israel-Hamas war, hospitals in the main combat zone of northern Gaza have increasingly ended up in the crosshairs as Israeli tanks crunch through the hollowed-out heart of Gaza City.
The intense battles around Shifa and other hospitals in the rubble-filled streets of Gaza City raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?