Haaretz criticizes Israeli military attacks on Gaza hospitals

By lauraharris // 2025-01-07

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Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an editorial criticizing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for attacking hospitals in Gaza.
The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia was raided by the IDF for the third time, causing fires and suspending operations.
Haaretz highlighted other IDF atrocities, such as arresting hospital directors, killing medical workers in airstrikes and prisons and the overall death of 1,057 health workers during the war.
The newspaper argued that the attacks on hospitals were illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention, which grants special status to hospitals during wartime and were part of the IDF's efforts to "complete the destruction" of Gaza.
Haaretz also distanced itself from its publisher's characterization of Hamas as "Palestinian freedom fighters," emphasizing that any organization advocating violence against civilians is a terrorist organization.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz has criticized the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for its attacks on hospitals in Gaza in its recent editorial. On Dec. 30, the news outlet published an editorial titled "Leave Gaza's Hospitals Alone." The editorial drew attention to the recent destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, which resulted in the death of at least five hospital staff members. "The Israel Defense Forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on Friday, for the third time. According to the World Health Organization, the operation forced the last working hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to suspend operations. Fires broke out in the hospital's laboratory and surgery department, and five medical staff members, including a pediatrician, were killed by IDF fire," Haaretz reported. "Around 350 people who were in the hospital were forced to leave and to undress. Some of the patients were transferred to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, which the IDF also raided last week." The Israeli newspaper further exposed the other atrocities of the IDF including the arrest of Director Hossam Abu Safiya of Kamal Adwan, the death of his son Ibrahim during an Israeli airstrike on the hospital in October, the death of three Gaza physicians in Israeli prisons during interrogation due to lack of medical care and the overall death of 1,057 health workers throughout the war. Haaretz claimed that all this led to significant disruptions in healthcare services and devastating consequences for civilians.(Related: Haaretz report suggests up to 40% of Ashkenazi Jews may suffer from mental disorders like schizophrenia.) "It is fair to assume that the deliberate damage to hospitals in Gaza has a different purpose. It appears that as part of the ethnic cleansing of the northern Strip, during which the army destroyed almost all the area's housing and infrastructure to prevent the return of hundreds of thousands of those expelled from there, it was decided to destroy the hospitals as well. In the absence of medical facilities, northern Gaza will be emptied faster, as the sick and wounded flee south to find care. Such a large area cannot be left without hospitals, especially in wartime," it included. Furthermore, the editorial pointed out that the Fourth Geneva Convention grants hospitals a special status during wartime. Hence, the attacks are illegal. The Fourth Geneva Convention accords special status to hospitals during wartime. The presence of small arms and ammunition in a hospital does not justify attacking it, nor does the presence of enemy fighters who are hospitalized there. Northern Gaza has been destroyed and devastated; the IDF is now mainly engaged in completing its destruction. This is an illegitimate action, and in any case, it must not include hospitals.

Haaretz disavows publisher after branding Hamas as "Palestinian freedom fighters"

This criticism echoed a similar editorial by Haaretz in November. In the earlier editorial titled "Terrorists Are Not Freedom Fighters," the newspaper distanced itself from its publisher, Amos Schocken, who alluded to Hamas as "Palestinian freedom fighters" at a conference in London last Oct. 27. Schocken criticized the Israeli government for not "imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population." Haaretz firmly rejected Schocken's characterization of Hamas, emphasizing that the use of violence against civilians is unequivocally terrorism. "Deliberately harming civilians is illegitimate. Using violence against civilians and sowing terror among them to achieve political or ideological goals is terrorism. Any organization that advocates the murder of women, children and the elderly is a terrorist organization, and its members are terrorists. They certainly aren't 'freedom fighters,'" Haaretz stated. Visit IsraelCollapse.com for more similar stories. Watch the video below about Haaretz exposing the atrocity propaganda and rapes committed during the Oct. 7 terror attack.

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Haaretz disavows publisher after branding Hamas as "Palestinian freedom fighters"

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