Israel’s attacks on al-Shifa ‘are the actions of a rogue state’: Analysis
Antony Loewenstein, the author of The Palestine Laboratory, who has been reporting on Israel and the Palestinian territories for 20 years, has been speaking to Al Jazeera following Israel’s latest withdrawal from al-Shifa.
He said the dozens of bodies the Health Ministry has discovered there are an indication of just how many people had been sheltering in the complex.
“Even though hospitals have been targeted extensively by the Israelis, many civilians have nowhere else to go,” he told Al Jazeera. “Many Palestinians need intense medical care and hospitals are – well there’s nowhere safe in Gaza – but it’s somewhere to go and after Israel [first] pulled out of al-Shifa, the hope was that it would remain a safe place and clearly, it was not.
“Not just bombing but air striking areas around these hospitals is not just a breach of international law, these are the actions of a rogue state, not a so-called democracy.”
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