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An international volunteer doctor at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed to Drop Site News that she and her foreign colleagues were made to leave the hospital on Monday morning to attend a mandatory World Health Organization training on sexual assault in Deir al-Balah shortly before Israel bombed the hospital, killing at least 21 people, including five journalists in a “double tap” strike.
The group of foreign volunteer medics, who sleep in the hospital, was informed by the WHO on Sunday afternoon that they would have to attend the training in person on Monday morning. “I was slightly surprised by this request, because any training now can happen online, particularly this kind of training, and we did question whether we needed to attend in person, as it would disrupt our clinical work, which is very important, but we were told that we needed to be there,” the doctor told Drop Site.
The group left Nasser hospital at 9am on Monday morning and drove to the WHO headquarters in Deir al-Balah approximately 30 minutes away. For security purposes, the UN coordinates all movements in Gaza with the Israeli military. The first strike on Nasser hospital was at 10am. The initial strike targeted the fourth floor where the intensive care and the operating theater are located and where some of the international volunteers work. A second strike at 10:17am targeted the stairwell outside the fourth floor where journalists, rescue teams and medics had come resulting in the majority of the casualties.
“This looks like a deliberate targeting of a healthcare facility, which is a war crime by all definitions and all imagination,” the doctor told Drop Site. “It is an unacceptable, unthinkable, unspeakable atrocity.”
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