283 bodies recovered from Israeli-made mass grave at Nasser Hospital

The Israeli occupation must be held accountable for the deliberate crimes it commits against Palestinians in Gaza, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent says.

  • 283 bodies recovered from Israeli-made mass grave at Nasser Hospital
    Palestinian health workers remove bodies from a mass grave on the grounds of the Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis (Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg)

The Gaza Civil Defense announced today that 283 bodies of martyrs have been recovered from the Israeli-made mass grave at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis since the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the area.

There is clear evidence of field executions carried out by the IOF at the Nasser Medical Complex, it stressed in its statement.

Among the hundreds of bodies was one from Israeli forces buried in mass graves at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, with hands tied and clothes wrapped in medical scrubs.

  • 283 bodies recovered from Israeli-made mass grave at Nasser Hospital
    The body of a Palestinian man with his hands tied and clothes wrapped in medical scrubs was found buried at the Nasser Medical Center in Khan Younis.

Palestinian Red Crescent

Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) spokesman Nebal Farsakh condemned the international community’s silence on Israel’s war on Gaza.

At a press conference, Farsakh said that since the start of the war in Gaza, the international community has not taken any serious action against the continued Israeli crimes and violations against the healthcare system, hospitals, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza.

The Israeli occupation must be held accountable for the deliberate crimes it commits against the Palestinians in Gaza. She emphasized and added that the PRCS in the Gaza Strip faces many obstacles, including the organization’s deliberate Israeli targeting, especially amid the scarcity of medical resources. and relief supplies in Gaza.

Farsakh, addressing Israel’s recently discovered mass graves at Al-Shifa Hospital, Nasser Medical Complex and Kamal Adwan Hospital, said that so far there are no accurate or specific figures on the bodies of Palestinians discovered there or from those who are missing.

Any reports of the burial of Palestinian patients and refugees near Kamal Adwan Hospital following the Israeli siege of the latter are appalling, Farsakh stressed, further confirming that 23 PRCS ambulances are currently out of service.

About 2,000 Palestinians missing

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Major Mahmoud Basal announced on April 21 that the bodies of more than 150 Palestinians killed in the Khan Younis massacre had been recovered from the rubble, while 500 others were still missing.

Following the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from areas in the Strip, approximately 2,000 Palestinians from Gaza were recorded as missing, and it is still unclear whether they were detained or buried by the IOF.

The spokesperson stressed that the IOF systematically uses enforced disappearances against the people of Gaza, bulldozing and burying dozens of bodies before withdrawing from the areas they invade.

He added that the IOF lulls Palestinians into a false sense of security and then brutally kills them minutes later, stressing that a large number of victims of mass graves and hospital raids are women and children.

Basal labeled Israeli actions in Gaza “ethnic cleansing” and emphasized that what is happening in Gaza has never happened anywhere else in the history of humanity, and that the weapons used by the IOF have never been used before.

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