14 October 2024 Al-Aqsa Hospital attack | |
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Part of the Israel–Hamas war | |
Location | Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip |
Coordinates | 31°25′11.89″N34°21′36″E / 31.4199694°N 34.36000°E |
Date | 14 October 2024 ~1:00 (UTC+02:00) |
Target | Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital |
Attack type | Airstrike, massacre, death by burning |
Deaths | 6+ Palestinians [1] [2] [3] |
Injured | 70+ Palestinians [4] [1] |
Perpetrator | Israel Defense Forces |
On 14 October 2024, the Israeli Air Force struck tents within the grounds of the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip. As of 14 October 2024, at least 5 people were confirmed killed in the attack and at least 70 were injured after a major fire broke out in nearby tents. [2] [5] [1] The death toll was expected to increase due to the large number of victims with severe burns. [6] 25 people were transferred to Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. [7] It was the seventh attack on the hospital since March 2024. [2] [8] Following the spread of videos showing people burning alive in nearby tents, the White House expressed its concerns to Israel. [9] [10]
Around one million displaced people are estimated to be sheltering in Deir el-Balah, which is supposedly considered to be part of Israel's "humanitarian zone" in the Gaza Strip. [11] [12]
At approximately 1 AM on 14 October 2024, the Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike on a tent camp housing displaced people on the grounds of the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip. [13] [14] The strike hit while emergency services were receiving injured people from the Israeli bombardment of the al-Mufti school in Nuseirat hours before, which killed 22 and injured 80 people. [2] [15] [16] [17] According to a Doctors Without Borders coordinator on site, the fire destroyed structures sheltering 37 families. [18] The strike caused families' cooking gas cylinders to explode, further fueling the fire. [18] [13] Four munitions experts reviewing videos of the blaze added that some of the secondary explosions were probably caused by small-arms ammunition but cautioned it was difficult to determine the exact balance without access to the site. [18] Footage showed tents on fire while people tried to extinguish the flames. [16] [19] [20]
Israel claimed to have targeted a Hamas command center embedded in the car park, without providing evidence. Doctors without Borders (MSF), which has staff working in Al-Aqsa Hospital, reported that "it had no knowledge" of a Hamas command center and that "the hospital functions as a hospital". [21]
Al-Aqsa Hospital fire | |
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External video | |
(GRAPHIC) Video of fire after Israeli attack, Sha'ban al-Dalou visible. [22] [23] |
The head of the hospital's emergency department said many of the injured were women and children. [18] Hospital staff said while the hospital itself was not damaged in the strike, they had to treat patients on the floor for lack of beds. [18] Most of the injured had second and third degree burns; some also had shrapnel wounds requiring critical care. [18] Most of the survivors would eventually die from their "massive and deep" burns, a medical worker said. [18]
Widely shared videos of the blaze, verified by NBC, [24] showed at least one person lying on a bed connected to an IV drip, [25] [26] burning alive, with onlookers unable to reach and save him. [18] [27] [28] [29] [30] The victim, identified as Sha'ban al-Dalou, was a 19-year-old software engineering student at Al-Azhar University who was injured at the IDF's bombing of the Shuhada al-Aqsa mosque a week prior. [23] [31] [32] [33] Al-Dalou's mother was also killed in the fire. [34] [35] [36] His father suffered severe burns while pulling two of the family's children out of the flames. [33] [37] Sha'ban's 11-year-old brother, Abdul Rahman al-Dalou, also died from his burns on 17 October. [3] Ahmed Al-Dalou, Sha'ban's and Abdul's father stated, "I cannot forget the smell of their burning bodies. It is stuck in my nose and mind. Every time I close my eyes, I see my wife and son burning." [12]
Following the spread on social media of a video of Sha'ban al-Dalou burning to death during the attack, several pro-Israel accounts spread the false Pallywood conspiracy theory that the video had been staged. [48] [49] More broadly, however, images of al-Dalou's death sparked outrage and added to growing concerns about Israel's conduct in Gaza. [50] An independent journalist who filmed the bombing stated, "I saw people burning in front of me. By god, no one could do anything. The man, the woman and the little girl burning in front of me". [51]
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