I was wrong..not quite every hospital in gaza..but close
Social media platforms erupted on Thursday, following Israel’s condemnation of an
Iranian missile strike on Soroka hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel, which the
Israeli government labelled a war crime.
The Israeli government described the attack as a deliberate violation of international law, citing the targeting of a civilian medical facility.
But the condemnation was met with swift backlash online, where many accused Israel of hypocrisy.
People on social media pointed out that for nearly two years, Israeli forces have systematically dismantled
Gaza’s healthcare system - bombing hospitals, raiding emergency wards, and forcing medical staff and patients to evacuate under fire.
“If attacking a hospital is a war crime, then the radical Jewish extremists are the greatest war criminals. Of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip, only 9 remain operational, all the others having been destroyed by Israeli bombing.” Another added, “If this is a war crime then so are the IDF’s actions bombing every hospital in Gaza,” another
person wrote.
As of May of this year, just 19 of Gaza's 36 hospitals
remain operational, with at least 94 percent of all hospitals in the besieged enclave damaged or destroyed, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO recorded 697 attacks on healthcare infrastructure by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
"If this is a war crime then so are the idfs actions bombing every hospital in gaza,"
another added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also addressed the incident, posting a video from the hospital site. “We accurately hit nuclear targets and missile targets, and they hit a hospital, where people can’t even get up and run away. They are harming not far from here - there is a children’s and infants’ ward here,” he said.
A social media
user responded, “Coming from the war criminal who: Bombed 35 hospitals in Gaza. Bombed 2 hospitals in Iran. Bombed 40 Hospitals in Lebanon. You have no self awareness and also the hospital itself was not bombed by Iran, stop placing military facilities near your hospitals.”
With 94 percent of hospitals in Gaza having been damaged or destroyed, social media users had little sympathy for Israeli officials' condemnations
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comrade stalin
gaza genocide is still the issue