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Israel-Hamas war: in Khan Younes, dozens of bodies discovered in pits at Nasser hospital (Photo taken in Khan Younes on April 22, 2024)
GAZA – A new mass grave. Around 200 bodies have been exhumed over the past three days in mass graves inside the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, the civil defense of the Gaza Strip announced on Monday, April 22, AFP. The victims were killed and buried by Israeli forces.
“Our teams continue to find bodies within the confines of the Nasser Medical Complex and since Saturday the bodies of around 200 martyrs have been exhumed”, declared Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for Civil Defense. Asked by AFP, the Israeli army did not react immediately.
Mohammed al-Mughayer, a leader of the Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip, for his part told AFP that a total of 283 bodies had been discovered in the graves of the Nasser hospital. “So far, we have found the buried bodies of 283 people, killed in cold blood by the occupying army” Israeli, also told AFP Ismail al-Thawabteh, head of the communications service of the Hamas government, in power in Gaza.
“Elderly women, children and young men”
“In the hospital courtyard, members of the civil protection and paramedics recovered 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli army. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men”declared a journalist fromAl Jazeera present on site.
According to local health authorities cited by the media, since October 7, at least two-thirds of the victims in Gaza have been children and women. They also indicate that the actual toll is likely higher, because many bodies are trapped under rubble or are in areas inaccessible to doctors.
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been harshly targeted during the military operation carried out by the Israeli army in the Palestinian territory since the attack perpetrated in Israel on October 7 by Hamas fighters from Gaza.
Israeli military operations carried out over the past six months in the Gaza Strip have left 34,151 dead, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
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