Al-Ahli hospital bombing: Israel performing its usual post-atrocity routine

On the evening of Tuesday, October 17 a strike on Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital, often called the Baptist Hospital, killed at least 500 people, mostly children and women.

The scenes from the massacre, as described by witnesses and displayed in videos broadcast by news networks, were as grisly as can be imagined.

Images revealed body parts scattered across the hospital grounds and doctors performing emergency surgeries in corridors without anaesthesia. Video footage from inside the hospital showed Palestinian parents screaming and crying at the side of their dead children.

Palestinian officials blamed the explosion on one of the many Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza since October 7.