Israel Never Sent Ambulances to Save Premature Babies in Gaza Hospital: Report

[David__77]

New reporting by the Washington Post appears to confirm that several premature babies were left to die in a Gaza hospital after Israeli forces ordered the building evacuated, and promised ambulances never arrived.

The new report comes in the wake of a horrifying video that appears to show the babies’ decaying corpses, swaddled in soiled diapers and partially eaten by stray dogs. The Post confirmed the authenticity of that footage by speaking with medical staff from the hospital and compared the footage with photographs of the same ward at the al-Nasr hospital in Gaza City.

Two doctors at al-Nasr told the Post that they had asked the Israeli Defense Forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to evacuate the premature babies, all of whom were connected to respirators and other monitors and could not be easily moved.

A tape of the conversation, obtained by the Post, reveals a senior official of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, an arm of Israel’s defense ministry, telling a doctor who requested the ambulances: “No problem,” and said he would “arrange coordination” for the transfer, the Post reported.

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https://themessenger.com/news/gaza-hospital-premature-babies-evacuation-died-ambulance

[Beakybird]

1. Heartbreaking and atrocious.

[obamanut2012]

2. k & r

[Turbineguy]

3. The Israelis should have rescued the babies,

seeing as how Hamas couldn't be bothered to do so.

[womanofthehills]

31. Sad story - nurse & his family took strongest baby

“Then the IDF delivered an ultimatum, al-Nasr director Bakr Qaoud told The Washington Post: Get out or be bombarded. An Israeli official, meanwhile, provided an assurance that ambulances would be arranged to retrieve the patients.

The nurse, a Palestinian man who works with Paris-based Doctors Without Borders, saw no choice. He assessed his charges and picked up the strongest one — the baby he thought likeliest to bear a temporary cut to his oxygen supply. He left the other four on their breathing machines, reluctantly, and with his wife, their children and the one baby, headed south.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-gaza-hospital-evacguated-four-fragile-lives-and-a-grim-discovery/ar-AA1kUtXS

I remember reading that the nurse was able to get the baby to another hospital-

[Alpeduez21]

4. This is a horrible legacy for what is reportedly

A civilized nation. Killing innocent Palestinians is considered ok by far too many people. Not even giving the briefest scintilla of a hint of a whisper that Israel doesn’t have the right to defend itself from Hamas. If I were targeting specific people I think I would use something other than US provided cluster bombs dropped on densely populated neighborhoods

[sarisataka]

9. It would give you more credibility

To not make blatantly false accusations, e.g.

US provided cluster bombs dropped on densely populated neighborhoods

[Alpeduez21]

11. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/2/us-gives-bunker-buster-bombs-to-israel-for-war-on-gaza-report

I know it seems terrible but it still happened.

I may have misidentified the types of US provided weapon used to commit war crimes but the point still stands. Apologies

[emulatorloo]

15. It isn't too late to edit your post and correct your misinformation.

[SoFlaBro]

34. Don't back away now, cluster munitions are very different and the facts don't align with what you are alleging.

[Goddessartist]

43. And they're using white phosphorus.

What a 'civilized' nation.

[Big Blue Marble]

32. Then change it to bunker bombs.

Either way, 1000's died.

[boston bean]

5. This doesn't ring true to me.

Because many babies were transferred.

[The Magistrate]

6. As A Deliberate Act, No, It Does Not

The colonel did not put down the phone and in his best 'Dr. Evil' declaim 'And they'll wait for them forever! Bwa-ha-ha....'

As the sort of fuck up endemic to the conduct of war, it rings true enough.

[LeftInTX]

20. Israel really hasn't helped with any of this

Especially that particular hospital.

Israel told everyone to evacuate and they ran out.

[womanofthehills]

24. This is a different hospital - Al-Nasr

NBC - “Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated”

“Around Nov. 10, doctors, patients and hospital staff were forced to evacuate Al-Nasr as the Israeli military continued its ground invasion of northern Gaza and issued repeated evacuation calls to the hospital and others in the vicinity. Amid heavy gunfire and shelling, and as Israeli tanks encircled the hospital, staff concluded they could not safely evacuate five babies, several of whom were premature and “placed on oxygen machines,” said Dr. Mustafa Al-Kahlot, director of the hospital.

“Our evacuation from Al-Nasr Hospital was very difficult and under fire,” he told NBC News in a phone call on Wednesday. “Children cannot be carried by hand or evacuated without oxygen equipment.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/abandoned-babies-found-decomposing-in-gaza-hospital-weeks-after-it-was-evacuated/ar-AA1kSYRL

[Big Blue Marble]

33. Yes, but not all.

We knew the weeks ago when they were transferred. Even the ones who made it
to Egypt may not fully recover as they were without oxygen for days.

[claudette]

7. So sad

Those poor parents.

[Oopsie Daisy]

10. I wonder if Hamas is pleased with how things are going so far.

I'll bet they weren't expecting this. Was it worth it to them?

[tblue37]

13. I think they were expecting it, and in fact deliberately provoked an extreme

response so that sympathy for Israel's suffering on Oct. 7 would be undermined.

Hamas likes to turn innocents into martyrs for their cause.

[GuppyGal]

28. OMG they are utterly delighted that they have many in the west doing the dirty propaganda work for them.

I've never heard the PA quoted with such voracity in my life.

[SoFlaBro]

35. Hamas loves EVERY dead baby be it Israeli, Palestinian or otherwise. Fucking sick shit.

[Tomconroy]

12. If this is true then why did the hamas medical

People abandon the babies and then leave the bodies lying around to rot?

[womanofthehills]

25. They could not get the babies out without oxygen equipment

CNN. -

Around Nov. 10, doctors, patients and hospital staff were forced to evacuate Al-Nasr as the Israeli military continued its ground invasion of northern Gaza and issued repeated evacuation calls to the hospital and others in the vicinity. Amid heavy gunfire and shelling, and as Israeli tanks encircled the hospital, staff concluded they could not safely evacuate five babies, several of whom were premature and “placed on oxygen machines,” said Dr. Mustafa Al-Kahlot, director of the hospital.

“Our evacuation from Al-Nasr Hospital was very difficult and under fire,” he told NBC News in a phone call on Wednesday. “Children cannot be carried by hand or evacuated without oxygen equipment.”https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/abandoned-babies-found-decomposing-in-gaza-hospital-weeks-after-it-was-evacuated/ar-AA1kSYRL

[Tomconroy]

40. So they abandoned the babies.

The hospital was never bombed.
And then they left the corpses to rot for the sake of a photo opportunity.

[uponit7771]

45. Stay and die with the babies leaving others uncared for? That makes no sense

[Tomconroy]

48. Your assumption that medical people would have died

If they had stayed and taken care of their patients doesn't make much sense to me.

[GuppyGal]

29. Excuse me but only Israel is responsible and accountable for anything and everything.

[LiberalFighter]

14. They must think they can just do anything.

[womanofthehills]

26. The Israeli soldiers said they would get an ambulance

To get the babies, but they never did.

[GuppyGal]

55. Perhaps a logistical roadblock interceded. I don't care for people assuming the worst of Israel right away...

it's like a knee jerk reaction. Israel seems to never get the benefit of the doubt ...yet the death numbers being provided by Hamas certainly does.

[onecaliberal]

16. I can't believe there can be any justification. Can you people even fathom that these are human beings.

Infants! For fucks sake.

[edisdead]

53. You People?

[Runningdawg]

17. I saw the pictures and story on a questionable source a week ago.

Hubby and 2 friends questioned their authenticity. However, let me point out that as a nurse, I have, unfortunately seen, dead babies and children mauled by dogs. They never have.

[womanofthehills]

27. CNN reported on it

[Big Blue Marble]

37. Washington Post has verified the video.

The journalist who filmed the remains of the children has been deeply traumatized.

[Goddessartist]

42. Democracy Now reported on it

and Donkees posted it days ago, I believe, but of course the regulars who are denying it on this thread were denying it then.

I think of Nietzsche in these times:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[edisdead]

54. I take almost everything on Democracy Now with a grain of salt

Not saying this isn’t a true story but the over dramatization and anti-biden/anti-democratic party lean to theor stuff gets a side eye from me.

[LeftInTX]

50. Dogs will eat carrion

Golden jackals (coyote like dog)devoured my grown family members' bodies over night. This was during WWI.

[NutmegYankee]

18. How can you send ambulances ahead of military forces?

Hamas would have just taken the ambulance crews hostage or raped and murdered them as well. Think people, think!

[Warpy]

21. Probably lied about the ambulances to get everybody

who was likeliest to survive evacuated, especially the dedicated medical staff.

Triage can be heartbreaking.

[NutmegYankee]

22. I suspect it was someone high level who had no idea what it would take

It's easy to say we'll do this, but once others looked at the logistics, it wasn't possible. You're talking about potentially (likely) sending people on a suicide mission.

[Warpy]

23. Yeah, that too, sending ambulances into an area under bombardment

and crawling with militants is a very bad idea. I still suspect they promised the staff everything in the hope they'd save themselves along with viable patients. Preemies in a war zone when there's no electricity for the machines keeping them warm, breathing and alive would not be a top priority, sad to say.

Like I said, triage is tough.

[Big Blue Marble]

36. Hamas was not around when the IDF occupied the hospital.

The IDF was in control of that area of the strip. Stop deflecting; the IDF
left these babies to die.

[NutmegYankee]

47. US ambulance crews won't enter an active crime scene,

but you think Israeli crews will enter an active war zone. When you come back to reality, give me a ring.

[Big Blue Marble]

49. So clever you are.

You are forgetting the Israelis assured the medical staff they would send the ambulances.
They made a commitment and then reneged at the cost of the babies lives.

Some things just cannot be excused or rationalized.

[Tomconroy]

51. Shouldnt the medical staff have stayed to see if

The ambulances came?

[Big Blue Marble]

52. They were ordered to evacuate and assured that the babies would be cared for.

Read the whole article in The Washington Post before you attempt to defend the indefensible/

[IronLionZion]

19. Who is being punished here?

because it probably isn't Hamas

[GuppyGal]

30. It's a damn shame that scumbag Hamas put their own people in the middle and on the front line including babies.

[Oopsie Daisy]

41. Hamas did this by design. It's what they wanted, apparently.

Israel is giving them what they want. Why are they complaining now?

[Xolodno]

38. Problem is, you have two problems that serve both agitators.

Problem #1: Hamas wants this to happen because its an effective recruiting, rallying, etc. tool.

Problem #2: Bibi has people in his government who also want this to happen because they look at the Palestinians as nothing more than...well, actually less than animals. Yemini, Iraqi, Iranian, etc. Jews are just a tad above Palestinians to them and genetic tests have shown Palestinians and Jews are related. But a Subotniki converted European with no lineage is better, can't make this stuff up.

[uponit7771]

46. Yep, Bibi doesn't even want international help keep the peace and Russia/China gets to show the

... US aiding the bad guy to the young

[LowerManhattanite]

39. Not remotely shocked.

[Nanjeanne]

44. Heartbreaking. The only thing sadder is some of the callous comments here.

[Goddessartist]

56. It is heartbreaking. As are

Some of the comments here. The inhumanity is very heartbreaking.