Dec 23, 2024
Israeli Forces ATTACK Last Functioning Hospital In N. Gaza
Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia was bombarded with shelling, sniper fire and drones by Israeli Defense Forces.
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I Kamal Odwan northern Gaza
last functioning health care center.
Patients with chronic conditions
lie in the passages trapped.
The hospital is surrounded
by Israeli tanks
and each hour brings a new uncertainty.
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The department came under a wave
of shelling and direct gunfire.
Both the gynecology and maternity
departments were directly impacted.
As we speak,
shelling of the hospital has not stopped.
Loud explosions persist
and shrapnel is flying around,
causing panic among our patients.
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Israeli forces have allegedly launched
an attack on the last functioning hospital
in northern Gaza, putting 400 civilians,
medical workers and patients at risk.
The maternity ward and neonatal wing
of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya
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were reportedly targeted.
It's not clear if there have been
any fatalities, though multiple people
were allegedly wounded.
Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya
said on Saturday night
that the facility was being hit
by shelling, sniper fire and drones.
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Here's some more from him.
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Ridwan.
He says that the hospital
is still treating 80 injured patients
despite having minimal resources.
On Sunday, an Israeli drone strike on the
hospital's fuel tanks and power generator
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allegedly shut off its electricity,
and the IDF has reportedly demanded
that the entire hospital be evacuated.
A nearly impossible request,
as hospital staff say that there aren't
enough ambulances to evacuate safely.
On top of that, people afraid
to are afraid to leave
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because of all of the nonstop firing.
Abu Safiyya says that we currently have
nearly 400 civilians inside the hospital,
including babies in the neonatal unit
whose lives
depend on oxygen and incubators.
We cannot evacuate these patients safely
without assistance, equipment and time.
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Doctor James Smith, a UK emergency
physician who has worked on medical
missions to Gaza, confirms that calls
for evacuation are not just impossible,
they're also a breach of humanitarian law.
Take a look.
The head of the hospital is saying
that the military had ordered patients and
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staff to be evacuated to another hospital.
- Is that even possible at this point?
- No, it's absolutely not possible.
There are about 90 to 100 patients
still in the hospital,
including babies in incubators.
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There are about 400 civilians and 150
healthcare workers in the hospital.
The surrounding area
is incredibly dangerous.
In the last 24 hours, continued
bombardments sniper fire into the hospital
itself into the maternity ward.
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There are patients currently
sheltering in the corridors.
It's impossible for the patients to move.
It's also a breach of international law
to try and press those patients to move.
Hospitals are protected spaces.
So are civilians,
patients and healthcare workers.
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So the IDF seems to be denying
that they have attacked the hospital in
response to a question about the reports.
A spokesperson for the IDF said early
on Sunday that no strikes are known
to have occurred in Kamal Adwan tonight.
In a separate update, the IDF said
that it was operating in Beit Lahiya.
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An IDF spokesperson also said that Israeli
forces had not given any evacuation
warnings to the hospital this weekend.
If the reports are accurate, this would
be an absolute disaster for the people
in the northern part of the strip.
Abu Safiya said that if Kamal Adwan
hospital is decommissioned,
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there will be no way of preserving
conditions of life to the remaining
75,000 plus civilians in north Gaza.
Those civilians were already
barely hanging on, by the way.
On Friday, a Unicef spokesperson
said children in northern Gaza
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have been largely unable
to receive humanitarian assistance
for over ten weeks and unfortunately,
the IDF is hitting much more
than just Kamal Adwan hospital.
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip
overnight killed at least 20 people,
Palestinian medics said on Monday.
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One of the strikes killed eight people,
including two kids,
in a tent camp in the area, which Israel
designated a humanitarian safe zone
but has repeatedly targeted.
The IDF said late Sunday
that it was targeting a Hamas militant
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in the humanitarian zone.
Thank you.
During the election, neither Trump nor
Harris instilled confidence that they
would stop funding or arming Israel,
even that they would like even even take
the very small step of denouncing
the actions of the Israeli government.
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We know that Trump likes to be perceived
as an antiwar president
who can end very complicated
and decades long conflicts overnight.
Do you think that that might be
a little bit hopeful, because this is
such a hopeless situation, just overall?
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We keep reporting on all these
things that are happening.
This was all deemed
to be an actual genocide.
And even though that's just a title,
maybe it's semantics.
It is important that
that that that happened.
Do you think that, you know,
Trump might take some steps
in the direction of ending this conflict,
if only for the sake of his own ego?
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And if so, what would that actually mean
for the people of Gaza?
Because we know that Trump
loves his beachfront property,
and he doesn't really see anything wrong
with Israel's occupation of Palestine?
Yeah, no.
In the short term, I don't think there's
any hope at all under Biden or Trump.
You know, we can get to the long term.
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And there is one scenario
where Trump could turn on Israel and
that's that that would be very hopeful.
We'll get to that in a second.
Just first on this stuff,
why are they bombing hospitals?
And remember that early on in the war,
there was a bomb
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that we thought was Israel's,
but it was probably an errant bomb
from another terrorist group inside Gaza.
And then all the Israelis went wild,
like all the supporters of Israel.
Oh my God, it's all wrong. It's all wrong.
Well, what difference did it make?
You then bombed dozens of other hospitals,
and you've now destroyed almost
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all the hospitals and all the universities
and all the schools and nearly
all the buildings in northern Gaza.
You know why they're doing that?
It's not because they're concerned
about terrorists.
All the leaders of Hamas are dead.
No, this is ethnic cleansing 101.
There's absolutely no question about it.
They're slaughtering civilians in mass.
They're doing it on purpose.
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It's the definition of terrorism as well.
Netanyahu is one of the worst
terrorists of my lifetime.
Guys, look, we've gotten used to it.
Don't get used to it.
You see the, you know,
the craters of those bombs
and you see the ambulance destroyed, etc..
That's that picture is all
of northern Gaza,
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let alone southern Gaza, also devastated.
But mainly they're trying to destroy
literally everything in northern Gaza
so they can say,
oh, well, there's nothing left.
And they're trying to either murder
whoever remains in Gaza
or kill enough of them
that they drive them into southern Gaza,
or maybe into another Arab country,
so they can say, oh, look, we're a people
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without a land, and here's a land
without people because we killed them all.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Okay, so this is disgusting terrorism.
I can't stand Extend it.
I can't stand it.
And we're all funding it.
Every single bomb you see there
is funded by the United States of America.
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We helped murder those people.
So now I just want you
to imagine one bomb.
One bomb like that falling in a hospital
in Cleveland or Little Rock or Saint Paul,
or a suburb outside of New York.
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What would America do?
We'd lose our minds.
We'd go attack the living crap
out of that country.
We'd do untold damage.
We'd probably attack a country
that didn't even attack us.
That was nearby. Right.
And when the Israel gets hit,
they're right to be outraged.
I hate terrorism of all sorts.
I hate violence of all sorts.
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And they say we have a right
to kill everybody in in Gaza
while we're looking for a terrorist.
Right. Okay.
Well, do the Palestinians
have the same right, because they
didn't suffer one of those bombs.
Israel has now dropped literally
hundreds of thousands of bombs, so that
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the Palestinians then have the right
to go back and kill all the Israelis,
because that's Israeli logic.
Israeli logic is, I don't care.
I thought there might have been a militant
there, so I murdered everyone in the area
by dropping a bomb on them, by dropping
by murdering everyone that that bomb hits.
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You don't have that, right?
That's not a right that exists.
That is disgusting.
Ethnic cleansing, genocide and terrorism.
And that is exactly
what the Israeli government is doing.
And they're making all of us pay for it
because of the corruption in America.
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All those sell out, both Republicans and
Democrats that took all that AIPAC money,
stuffed it in their pockets and said,
go ahead and murder Palestinians at will.
In fact, when you're murdering
terrorist leader comes here,
we'll give him a standing ovation,
because that's how deeply corrupt
the United States government is.
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I'm never going to lose
my outrage over it.
Never.
Okay, so now,
how about the pro-life people?
Right wingers? Y'all are pro-life.
Pro-Life, over 15,000 children murdered
in Gaza, and oh, hey, no,
they didn't kill them with their hands.
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They didn't knife them or shoot them,
although they
literally shot a lot of them.
In fact, American over 100
American doctors came back and said there
was a stunning number of headshots
of children under the age of five,
snipers shooting children from hundreds
of yards away with a head shot
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or a chest shot to murder them on purpose.
No, I know when Israel does it.
It's not on purpose.
Oh, look at the sniper.
Hit another 200 kids in the head.
Oh, what a wild coincidence.
They were looking for a militants
who were four years old.
No. So pro-lifers in America,
all of them liars.
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They never meant,
oh, we want to protect babies,
because when it's Palestinian babies,
they're like, oh, send him more money.
Send him money
to kill more Palestinian babies.
Come on. Pro-Life, where are you?
Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong.
I'm saying one pro-life person,
let alone leader, say, oh my God,
will you please stop the literal slaughter
of these poor children?
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Nope nope nope nope nope.
Beloved Israel
can do anything now with Trump.
Look.
Why did I fight so hard against Trump
before the election?
Because the guy is a liar, okay? And?
And he'll do anything for money.
So Miriam Adelson gave him $137 million.
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Her late husband gave him $200 million
in the last two campaigns.
So what did he do?
He put Marco Rubio in charge
of State Stefanik to U.N.
Ambassador Huckabee,
to Israeli Ambassador Mike Wallace,
National Security administration.
Those are all Team Israel team Miriam.
They're all neocons, which I thought
the right wing was against neocons.
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What happened? The right wing.
They're all establishment.
They're all in favor of Israel,
and they're all in favor of giving all of
our money to Israel to murder more people.
So what happened to anti-war BS?
Total utter BS when it comes to that?
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So is there any hope at all?
First of all, with Biden and Kamala Harris
and the Democrat establishment
zero hope zero there 100% corrupt,
they would never, ever defy their donors.
That idiot senile how full Joe Biden
saying, oh, one of my hopes is before I
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leave, maybe we could get to a cease fire.
Shut up.
You've been saying the same thing
for over a year now.
You know how you get to a ceasefire,
you withdraw their funding.
Easiest thing in the world.
Any child knows that.
Are you so senile? You don't know that?
No. You do know.
That's the one thing you do know.
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You're like.
Yes, but Jill, did the money come in?
- The money?
- The money.
And he serves his donors like a bitch.
I hate that guy.
Oh, no.
No. Joe Biden is so sweet and special.
He has so much empathy.
Unless you're a Palestinian child.
Then he goes, oh, wait,
did the check clear?
Murder him? Who cares?
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Didn't do anything
and would never do anything if Israel
killed every Palestinian in Gaza.
Joe Biden would still say,
I'm still looking for a ceasefire,
but I send another 30 billion
just in case there was any humans left.
So screw Democratic leadership.
They're infinitely corrupt
when it comes to Trump.
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I just told you how corrupt he is.
And it's it's worse.
Miriam's ordered him. Hey, hey hey, Trump.
Come here, dog. Come here.
I'm Miriam Adelson and I own you.
You put Rubio and Stefanik
and all these people in.
And now I want Israel
to annex the West Bank.
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That's what Israeli papers are reporting.
And they're definitely going to try
to take all of northern Gaza.
And that's why we do this story.
And what's Trump going to do?
I say finish it. I wouldn't have happened.
Yea yea yea yea yea yea yea.
What are you going to do Trump.
Okay.
And if you're a right winger
I'm predicting it right now
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and you'll see I'm 100% right.
He will send your money
to them like a dog.
Because his donors ordered him to.
What happened?
I thought you were anti-corruption.
Look, over the next four years,
we're going to find out if the right wing
base is actually anti-corruption or not.
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Because Trump has talked a big game.
I called him a fake populist.
I believe those voters are anti-corruption
and that a lot of people on the left go,
oh no, Jake, you're totally wrong.
They're all lying.
I don't think they're lying.
But when their daddy says, no,
I'm sending your money to Israel
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and I'm in whatever war they start.
You're going to pay for it. And I'm.
And if I'll have to help them start
those wars, then what are you going to do?
Are you going to say
Trump was full of crap?
And are you going to hold him accountable?
Or are you going to say,
no, no, no, daddy told me that.
Miriam.
Mommy, Miriam wants
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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So if Daddy Trump says it,
then I'm pro corruption and pro-war.
This is your litmus test. Right wing.
If you still say no, we serve Israel.
And hey, look, America's not so bad.
Then we'll get to find out who you are.
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Yeah, I know we have to go to a break
soon, but I just want to point out,
I love that you pointed out
how devastating it would be
for just one of these bombs to fall
on a building here in the United States.
We are so insulated and protected
and spoiled over here that all these
things are happening overseas in our name,
with our tax dollars,
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and we're just so removed from it all.
I mean, the idea that a bomb
would fall on a school,
let alone a hospital, anything like that.
Like it's it's something that we can't
even really conceive of over here.
And we all know what did happen
when a couple of skyscrapers
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were targeted in New York City.
And I'm not talking about what the W.
Bush administration did in response.
That was also, you know,
that's a whole other topic.
I'm talking about how bloodthirsty
we all were at that time.
We all were hurt. We all felt violated.
We were all confused,
and we all wanted revenge.
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Right?
The American government had to respond
because there was no way
that we could even conceive of a reality
where the American government just said,
you bombed our buildings, you ran a plane
into our buildings, and we're not going
to retaliate in any kind of way.
And that was for one incident.
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That was for something
that happened on one day.
A few thousand people died.
How many of those people
have died in Gaza so far?
And, you know, after that we all
voted w Bush back into office at that time
with the, the popular vote,
which he didn't have the first time.
So it's a very human thing
to want to get back at the people
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who did something wrong to you?
Who?
Who hurt you? And the people of Gaza.
They have zero defenses right now.
It's very sad.
So, yeah.
And look, lastly, what I can't
stand is after Israel has slaughtered
and slaughtered and slaughtered,
we're past 46,000 now.
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We're past 26,000 women
and children, slaughtered.
The Palestinians are the terrorists.
The the Muslims are the violent ones.
Oh, the Israelis, they're so moral.
They're so deeply moral
as they slaughter fields of children
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because they didn't mean to.
But the Muslims meant to,
that they're throwing rocks at us.
Get the hell out of here
with your giant military.
Goliath.
Goliath is crushing David with our money.
It's one of the sickest things
I've ever seen.
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It's a slow motion genocide,
and we're all just sitting here.
Both Democrats and Republicans going,
oh, well, our politicians are bought,
so that's totally okay.
Well, if it's if Israel bought them,
I guess there's nothing we could do.
No. You should challenge
your own politicians.
You see how I challenge
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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and Democratic Party right wing?
Were you are you mad enough
to challenge Trump?
Or are you going to sit there
and take and go, oh daddy Trump,
take more money, give it to Israel,
let him kill, start more wars.
Yeah.
So you haven't done it yet.
You haven't done it yet.
I'm the only one who's actually thinking
that maybe they
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will hold Trump accountable.
No one on the left thinks that, but we're
going to find out if there are actually
right wing populists on those hills,
if they don't object to this endless
slaughter and our money financing.
And then they were never populist
and they were never antiwar.
They just were.
Then the left was right about them,
and they were just a cult
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who wanted to follow Daddy Trump.
We'll find out.
We'll all we all got eyes
and we all got ears.
And we're going to report it honestly
right here on The Young Turks.
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