Many of those who were killed in a blast that destroyed a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday had turned to the church-run facility because they believed it would be a relatively safe place when they had nowhere else to go, humanitarian officials said Wednesday.A girl carrying her belongings walks in the area of al-Ahli Arab hospital on Wednesday, after hundreds of people were killed in a blast. Families who fled their homes had been sheltering at the Gaza hospital amid the ongoing conflict with Israel.
Hamas blamed the blast on an Israeli airstrike, while the Israel Defence Forces say "intelligence from multiple sources" show it was causedDoctors Without Borders Canada executive director Joseph Belliveau told Power & Politics on Tuesday from Geneva that hundreds of people are sheltering in hospitals in Gaza 'because they've felt so vulnerable being out in the street that they thought hospitals would be relatively safer places — and they should be.
Humanitarians and doctors agree that such attacks are particularly abhorrent because, even during a war, health-care facilities and workers trying to save civilian lives are to supposed be left untouched under international law,