Blasts have been reported at or near several hospitals in Gaza, with footage showing tanks operating outside a children's facility.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has now weighed in on the hospital situation in northern Gaza.

In a statement, it warned that hospitals in the Palestinian enclave have “reached a point of no return”, risking the lives of thousands of people.

The ICRC said its staff attempting to deliver medical supplies had witnessed “horrendous” scenes, and described the destruction as “unbearable”.

It also highlighted attacks on children’s hospitals, including Al-Rantisi, which we’ve been reporting on today, saying they had “not been spared from violence.”

The humanitarian organisation, which is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, repeated its demand that hospitals and healthcare workers, under international law, must be protected.

    • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
      15·
      1 year ago

      No you didn’t. You deflected and didn’t answer the question. You can try again. If genocide, how has Palestinian population grown by 100%?

      • gregorumEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Once again: since the outbreak of the war, the population has decreased by over 10,000, 40% of which are innocent women and children, and it also meets several of the conditions of the UN’s definition of genocide.

        Just because you don’t like the answer doesn’t mean I didn’t give you one.

        • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
          15·
          1 year ago

          But that isn’t genocide.

          Genocide is the “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”. People die in war. Sad fact. But, that doesn’t mean it meets the criteria of genocide.

          • gregorumEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Only if you ignore the rest of the conditions in the definition:

            In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

            a. Killing members of the group;

            b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

            c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

            d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

            e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.