In a previous clip, US Senator Marco Rubio, who is expected to serve as Secretary of State in the next #Trump administration, said in response to a question from a pro-Palestinian citizen that he is not calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza, and is calling for the elimination of all #Hamas elements, describing them as “feral animals” for allegedly committing “horrific crimes.” He said that he blames #Hamas for the deaths of civilians in #Gaza, and says that he is calling on #Hamas to stop hiding behind civilians, adding that #Hamas knew this would lead to this, so it must stop building its #military facilities under #hospitals, “according to his claim.

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#Video from #CodePink is available on #Telegram:

Euro-Med Media: As Israel insists on using starvation as weapon, famine in northern Gaza must be officially declared

Palestinian Territory – Given that Israel has blocked the entry of goods and aid to the hundreds of thousands of besieged residents in the northern #Gaza Strip for more than 50 days now, the relevant international and #UN organisations must formally declare #famine in the region. #Israel’s use of #starvation as a #weapon is one component of its ongoing #genocide in the Strip, which also includes mass killings and forced displacement.

Due to the illegal Israeli blockade on the enclave, 10s of thousands of Palestinians, including dozens of patients in three #hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, are in immediate danger of starvation or long-term health consequences.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/6539

#FoodAsWeapon #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael @palestine group @israel group

Israel ‘methodically destroying’ Gaza, say health workers https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-gaza-health-workers-middle-east-palestine-un-map-war-crimes-oct-7/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Israeli-Palestinianconflict #Israel-Hamaswar #Healthsecurity #Healthsystems #HealthCare #Hospitals #Patients #Defense

There are 125 patients in the Kamal Adwan hospital, including children and the wounded. The incubator had eight babies and the Intensive Care Unit has seven newborns and children who all need to be on a ventilator.
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But Israel’s attack damaged the upper floors, where the children’s ward was located, forcing staff to move the babies and children to the lower floors, which do not have the same equipment.

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Israeli soldiers continue to bomb and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital in war-battered northern Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry says, suggesting that the plan seems to be to execute medical workers who refused to evacuate.

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A four-day-old child, Mohammed, is the only survivor at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Kamal Adwan’s Hospital in Beit Lahiya, which has been under Israeli military siege.

Israeli artillery last week targeted the hospital’s facilities, including the ICU, killing several children. Patients have been battling to stay alive amid electricity outages and a severe shortage of basic supplies, including IV solutions.

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“We have been abandoned by the whole world and left to work under unimaginably harsh and horrifying conditions.”

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza

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Children’s department in northern Gaza hospital hit

Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, says Israeli forces bombed the children’s floor, the nursery department, and the water tanks in the health facility.

The hospital was subjected to heavy Israeli shelling during a visit by a delegation from the World Health Organization.

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It's the sheer depravity of the people who would do such things that's shocking. But the world looks away – it doesn't want to know because it's complicit.

(AP) #Israel #Gaza #hospitals #crimesagainsthumanity

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hospitals-israel-civilians-d066117ec80bce83657447add762b2e7

#Hospitals are protected buildings under international #HumanitarianLaw. But allegations that Shifa is also being used for military purposes complicated the situation because that would also breach international law, UN officials have said.

Medical units used for acts harmful to the enemy, and which have ignored a warning to stop doing so, lose their special protection under international law.

#Israel raids #Gaza's #AlShifa Hospital, urges #Hamas to surrender
https://www.rappler.com/world/middle-east/israel-war-hamas-updates-november-15-2023/

#Belgium’s deputy prime minister has called on the Belgian government to adopt sanctions against Israel and investigate the bombings of #hospitals and refugee camps in #Gaza. #Israel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/09/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-who-disease-gaza-us-strikes-iran-site-syria?page=with:block-654ca3998f081362db4f9fd1#block-654ca3998f081362db4f9fd1

The Hidden Fee Costing #Doctors Millions Every Year
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A powerful #lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that #health insurers owe them.

Big companies rake in profits while doctors are saddled with yet another cost in a burdensome #HealthCare system.

#Insurance #Patients #hospitals #news

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-hidden-fee-costing-doctors-millions-every-year?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post