![]() ![]() The Nazis even created a mock camp for the “resettlement” of Jews “to the East,” – Theresienstadt – where international bodies such as the Red Cross could see how humanely the Jews were treated, even as millions were being exterminated.Īt least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million Armenians were massacred or died of exposure, disease and starvation during the genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire from the spring of 1915 to the autumn of 1916. As for the infirm and elderly, they were cared for in rest centers. The Nazis claimed that Jews packed on trains and sent to extermination camps were on work details and had good medical care and adequate food. Those who embark upon projects of mass killing lie to avoid demoralizing their own populations, lull the victims into believing they will not all be exterminated and stop outside forces from intervening. Hitler Youth used to sing songs like this about Jews. Watch this video of Israeli school children singing, “We Will Annihilate Everyone” in Gaza. Palestinians, in the Israeli lexicon, are a single contagion that must be eradicated. There are no mothers, fathers, children, teachers, doctors, lawyers, cooks, poets, taxi drivers or shopkeepers. It speaks of Palestinians as a dehumanized mass. And now, when it is grimly determined to carry out the worst slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that saw 750,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed and some 50 massacres by Jewish militias, it spits out one grotesque absurdity after another. Israel’s settler colonial state was founded on lies. The Ibn Sina Hospital has been raided by Israeli soldiers along with the East Jerusalem Hospital. In an ominous sign that Israel will turn on the Palestinians in the West Bank once it is done flattening Gaza, armored vehicles have surrounded at least four West Bank hospitals. And in a genocide, a population, and all that sustains a population, is obliterated. If Israel abided by the Geneva Conventions they would be correct. They hope the medical centers will not be targeted by Israel. Tens of thousands of terrified Palestinians, forced to evacuate by Israel, their homes blasted into rubble, seek refuge from the relentless bombing by camping out in and around Gaza’s hospitals. Soon there will be no health facilities left. One by one the hospitals are being picked off. The hospitals still operating have severe shortages of basic medicine and supplies. Israel has shut down 21 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals, including Gaza’s only cancer hospital. And this is what will happen at the few hospitals that remain. This is what happened at the other hospitals that Israel has destroyed. This is what happened at Nasser Hospital. This is what happened at Gaza’s main psychiatric hospital. This is what happened at Al Rantisi Children’s Hospital. This is what happened at Al Shifa hospital. Israeli soldiers raid the hospital and force everyone out at gunpoint. The most vulnerable, premature babies in incubators and the gravely ill, die. There are no painkillers, antibiotics and oxygen. Ambulances are blown up by Israeli missiles. Flyers are dropped by Israel over a hospital telling people to leave because the hospital is a base for “Hamas terrorist activities.” Tanks and artillery shells rip away parts of the hospital walls. Israel is deploying tanks and armored personnel carriers around the hospital and has fired rounds into the building, killing twelve people. The Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia is next. Israel has destroyed and nearly emptied the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return. Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are “Hamas command centers.” Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza’s medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis.
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