‘Israeli army left infants to die in Al-nasr Hospital’

“We were surprised that the occupation army left infants to die and their bodies to decompose without allowing anyone to save them,” recounted the Palestinian doctor Mona Sahwil on the ‘horrific crimes’ committed by the Israeli army after it stormed the Al-nasr Children’s Hospital in Gaza City.

Sahwil, who was displaced from the northern to central Gaza Strip as a result of the devastating Israeli war, said she was working as a paediatrician in the intensive care department at the Al-nasr Children’s Hospital when the ‘Israeli crime’ occurred on November 10.

The doctor, who currently works at the Al-aqsa Hospital in the city of Deir al-balah, said the Israeli forces ‘besieged Al-nasr

Hospital that day, which posed a great danger to us’.

She told Anadolu that after the siege, the medical staff were forced to evacuate the hospital, and ‘coordination was made with international institutions to transfer the medical staff and sick children to another hospital’.

“We prepared to go out with the children who were on ventilators, but the army entered the hospital and told us to leave them and that an international team would come and transfer them.”

Communication with the hospital was then cut off, and the medical teams and personnel were dispersed, she added.

“After that, we were surprised when we saw pictures of children with decomposing bodies on their beds,” Sahwil said.

“No one took them from the hospital, they remained there until they died and their bodies decomposed,” she noted.

On February 16, the spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-qudra, confirmed in a statement to Anadolu that five infants had died and that their decomposed bodies were found in the Al-nasr Hospital.

After the Israeli army withdrew from the Al-nasr neighbourhood, the extent of the massive destruction inside the hospital horrific scenes emerged where small bones were scattered on the beds.