Bernie Sanders to Force Vote on Blocking Bombs for Israel’s Destruction of Gaza — CAIR-Chicago
Earlier this week the Israeli military bombed Nasser Hospital, one of Gaza’s largest medical centers. The attack killed a Hamas official who was reportedly receiving medical care, the Israeli military said and Hamas confirmed. Feroze Sidhwa, a volunteer doctor at Nasser Hospital and a U.S. citizen, said a teenage boy who had been his patient was also killed in the strike.
“He would have gone home tomorrow,” Sidhwa said on social media this week. “If I had been changing his dressings, as I planned to this evening, I probably would have been killed too. Attacking hospitals is a war crime, and it needs to stop.”
Sidhwa is one of several U.S.-based doctors risking their lives in Gaza. In an interview this week with the news outlet Zeteo, Sidhwa said a woman from the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem called him after the bombing of Nasser Hospital to see if he was alive, and he urged diplomats to ask Israel not to bomb the hospital again.
“And I swear to God, she goes, ‘Actually, that’s not our role, sorry,’” Sidhwa said.
Like other international health care workers and human rights groups, Sidhwa said there is no evidence for Israel’s claims that Hamas militants are using medical facilities as cover for militant activity. Israel has consistently claimed its attacks on hospitals are justified, but striking civilian medical infrastructure is a war crime.
