Mass grave with bodies of patients from Shifa hospital discovered in Gaza after Israeli siege

The Gazan authorities discovered this Monday a mass grave with at least nine bodies buried in the courtyard of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the enclave, which was completely out of service after a siege by the Israeli Army.

Among the bodies recovered today, several were patients and wounded who were in the center, the director of the Press Office of the Hamas Government in Gaza, Ismail al Zawabta, told EFE.

The official explained that there are still several bodies underground, and that The bodies were hidden in the sand to try to hide the existence of the grave. He also explained that among those buried there are women and the elderly.

Israeli forces insisted after their departure from Shifa in early April that their military operations were not directed against “patients, health personnel or medical equipment,” but the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas, then denounced that the offensive It left nearly 400 dead.

During his operations at the hospital, which began in mid-March with the siege of the center, Israel claims to have killed around 200 “terrorists” and interrogated more than 800 suspectsamong whom he identified about 500 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, including senior officials.

Images released of the state of the hospital show a wide trail of destruction across the area, with buildings destroyed and large parts of the medical complex charred by intense fire from the attacks for two weeks.