Dozens of Israeli doctors told the Israeli army to bomb Gaza's hospitals, saying "the people of Gaza" had "brought their annihilation upon themselves" by allowing hospitals to become "nests of terrorists."

[The Hippocratic oath governing the duties of the doctor dates back to the 4th century BC... Obviously the colonial, racist and genocidal state has not yet arrived at this level of civilization - Editor's note]

Last week, dozens of prominent Israeli rabbis had already assured Israeli leaders that they had the right to bomb al-Shifa' hospital in Gaza, and this week's letter, signed by Doctors for the Rights of IDF Soldiers, urges the bombing of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

The letter states, in no uncertain terms, that due to suspicions of “terrorist activity, hospitals are “a legitimate target for annihilation.” They claim that “the ambulances which evacuate patients to the south for treatment elsewhere are at their disposal”.

They do not mention that these ambulances are like the rest being bombed by Israel, nor that the south is also subject to merciless shelling.

Doctors claim that “the people of Gaza…are the ones who brought about their annihilation” – echoing the genocidal rhetoric of Israeli politicians who have even claimed that “the children of Gaza brought about this annihilation.”

Doctors use the terms “snakes,” “wasps” and “terrorist nests” to dehumanize the enemy, which seems to extend from the Hamas movement to the entire Palestinian people.

The original letter with an initial list of 9 doctors was published today by Quds News Network, and has already been signed by 83 other signatories and has been distributed by various Orthodox Jewish sites (such as here and here).

We have identified the first 9 signatories below, which include various gynecologists and pediatricians, several of whom have an obvious religious-Zionist leaning and affiliation (see some details in parentheses in the list of signatories):

We the undersigned :

Dr. Tal Nir [voted “most dedicated doctor” in COVID in 2021, Orthodox Jew and member of Chabad]

Dr. Audray Azran [Gynecologist, Haifa]

Shlomi Ben-Nun [pediatrician, retired in 2022, Afula]

Hannah Katan [Religious-Zionist gynecologist, founded the Elkana Colony Family Center, of which she is president]

Ori Attias [pediatrician, intensive care, Rambam Hospital, Jerusalem]

Hannah Kremer [family doctor at Elkana Colony Clinic]

Dr. Yeruham Priner [pediatrician, Beitar Illit colony]

Dr. Carmit Almog [specialized in nephrology, hypertension, Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv region]

Menuha Vilk [pediatrician, Jerusalem]

Gaza's health system has collapsed

The occupying army has already targeted ambulances and hospitals, committing numerous massacres against the population of Gaza, with the death toll exceeding 9,500.

On Thursday, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital said electricity had been cut off in some sections of the hospital due to fuel exhaustion.

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in "Tel Aviv", several Israeli media outlets quickly reported, citing Mr. Netanyahu's office or internal sources, that the decision to prohibit the entry of fuel into the Gaza Strip remained unchanged.

Electricity, clean water and fuel have all run out, and there are no more medical supplies or basic treatments. Dozens of hospitals and medical centers have been closed, meaning patients must be transferred to remaining hospitals, which are already overloaded.

The World Health Organization said Thursday it was virtually impossible to transfer medical supplies to hospitals and condemned the lack of security guarantees for sending humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

Author: Tali Shapiro and  Jonathan Ofir