The government of USA repeated this Friday in the UN Security Council the Israeli accusation of that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas “misuses (Gaza) schools and hospitals to store weapons, hide fighters and coordinate attacks against Israel.”
The deputy ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, responded in this way to the UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, who minutes earlier had said that Israel has not offered evidence for accusations that she described as “vague, often erroneous and sometimes contradictory with the available information.”
In one of the last sessions of the Council in which the diplomacy of the outgoing president, Joe Biden, will participate, the United States highlighted that “Israel has a moral imperative to prevent harm to civilians.”
The session was dedicated to specifically addressing Israel’s deliberate attacks on medical infrastructure in Gaza – 27 hospitals and 12 medical centers, according to UN figures – and the diplomat began blaming Hamas, which “puts civilians in danger with its tactics of using these infrastructures.”
He also repeated figures offered by the Israeli military that 240 Hamas militants were captured in the latest attack on the Kamal Adwan hospital, the last to be attacked in Gaza. “I urge my colleagues in this room to criticize Hamas for these actions.”Shea declared.
The US representative also once again made calls to “not see hospitals as scenes of violence” or that “civilians cannot be left without functional hospitals or adequate medical care,” so reiterated the request that “Israel comply with international humanitarian law and take all possible measures to prevent harm to civilians.”
On the other hand, the Israeli Army confirmed this Friday that The director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip is under arrestHussam Abu Safiya; He stated that he is a member of Hamas and that he has participated in “terrorist activities.”
“Hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were hiding in Kamal Adwan Hospital, under his direction. “Currently, Israeli security forces are investigating it,” an Israeli military spokesman told the news agency. EFE. The doctor was arrested between last Friday and Saturday in an operation at the medical center.
Relatives of the hospital director as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) have demanded his release.
(With information from EFE)
