Blasts have been reported at or near several hospitals in Gaza, with footage showing tanks operating outside a children's facility.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has now weighed in on the hospital situation in northern Gaza.

In a statement, it warned that hospitals in the Palestinian enclave have "reached a point of no return", risking the lives of thousands of people.

The ICRC said its staff attempting to deliver medical supplies had witnessed "horrendous" scenes, and described the destruction as "unbearable".

It also highlighted attacks on children's hospitals, including Al-Rantisi, which we've been reporting on today, saying they had "not been spared from violence."

The humanitarian organisation, which is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, repeated its demand that hospitals and healthcare workers, under international law, must be protected.

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
    17·
    1 year ago

    If it really was genocide, why has the population of Gaza increased by 100% in the last decade? Shouldn't that number go down?

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Since the breakout of the war, it’s gone down by over 10,000, 40% have been innocent women and children.

      • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
        15·
        1 year ago

        Couldn't answer the question. War is war, and innocents die, but 5hat doesn't make it genocide.

          • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
            15·
            1 year ago

            No you didn't. You deflected and didn't answer the question. You can try again. If genocide, how has Palestinian population grown by 100%?

            • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Once again: since the outbreak of the war, the population has decreased by over 10,000, 40% of which are innocent women and children, and it also meets several of the conditions of the UN’s definition of genocide.

              Just because you don’t like the answer doesn’t mean I didn’t give you one.

              • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
                15·
                1 year ago

                But that isn't genocide.

                Genocide is the "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group". People die in war. Sad fact. But, that doesn't mean it meets the criteria of genocide.

                • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Only if you ignore the rest of the conditions in the definition:

                  In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

                  a. Killing members of the group;

                  b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

                  c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

                  d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

                  e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

                  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
                    13·
                    1 year ago

                    Sorry, but everybody is a member of a group. Since that is your definition is used that for the rest of your criteria, this doesn't make much sense.