A view of destruction after Israeli forces withdrawal from the Gaza Strip's largest health complex, Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings in Gaza City, Gaza on April 21, 2024.
ass graves with hundreds of bodies were discovered last weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, prompting serious concerns about
“Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law. And the intentional killing of civilians, detainees and others who are is a war crime,” said Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Attacks on hospitals arethe U.N. Security Council monitors and reports. Hospitals can lose their special protections, however, if “they are used by a party to the conflict to commit, outside their humanitarian functions, an ‘act harmful to the enemy,’”.
Nadav Shoshani, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Force, called the claim that Israeli troops buried Palestinians in mass graves “misinformation.”
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