Discovery of mass graves at Shifa Hospital in Gaza

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that three mass graves were found in the Shifa hospital in Gaza.

May 13, 2024 - 14:09
Discovery of mass graves at Shifa Hospital in Gaza

According to AP news agency, representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Civil Defense Organization and the Gaza Forensic Medicine Institute held a joint press conference yesterday regarding the details of the three mass graves found in the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, in the area in front of the emergency room, kidney department and surgery department of the Al-Shifa Hospital. He said that 80 bodies were found in 3 mass graves.

The following was also announced at this press conference:

"Dozens of bodies were found in other parts of the hospital, between buildings, most of which belonged to patients who could not be treated due to the attack on the hospital and the power outage."

According to the statement of these three Palestinian organizations, Zionist forces crushed these people with a military vehicle before killing them, which caused the bodies to be dismembered.

Some bodies were shot before being buried in mass graves, while some bodies were buried in garbage containers and piles of soil in the health complex.

Gaza Civil Defense Organization also announced that more than 10 thousand Palestinian martyrs are still under the rubble, and the relevant parties and their families cannot remove the bodies of the martyrs from under the rubble.

Recently, the Palestinian government information office in the Gaza Strip announced that medical personnel found the bodies of 49 martyrs in the third mass grave in the Shifa hospital and that search operations are continuing. According to this report, the number of mass graves in Gaza hospitals has reached seven./