The IRC was notified by the IDF to warn the hospital to evacuate. The reason was to level the 4 story building so Hamas militants couldn't use it to direct fire onto IDF positions. Just another example of cowardly Hamas "warriors" figtting from civilian locations. Get your bullshit stories straight, Fatima.Israel destroys e al-Wafa hospital as staff evacuates all patients
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Video is from earlier in the offensive, threats and attacks have been ongoing throughout this military offensive in Gaza
"The Israeli military has destroyed el-Wafa rehabilitation*hospital in the Gaza Strip, after first targeting the facility with five missiles on July 11, 2014. The Israeli military*began striking the building around 8o pm this evening and within two hours all hospital staff and patients had evacuated the only rehabilitation center in the Gaza Strip. As they departed what remained intact from the medical center burned to the ground.
Its already destroyed, said Basman Alashi, director of el-Wafa, continuing, I dont know how much is left of it, but we have evacuated all of our patients. We lost power, there was a fire in the building.
Alashi spoke to me via telephone from his house in Gaza, unable to cross the Israeli shelling to reach*the hospital. I left the hospital at seven and within two hours they had bombed the hospital. Shells hit every floor of the building, and a fire spread throughout..."
Doctors evacuate patients after Israel bombs hospital | The Electronic Intifada
Here we see a deliberate egregious violation of The Fourth Geneva Convention, a war crime, the complete destruction of an internationally protected hospital by Israel.
Evacuate a hosp so it could be shot down, have you ever worked in one, all those beds out in the middle of the streets, you have to be out of your mind.
Seems if they were so concerned they wouldn't have been letting Hamas use it.