On Oct. 17, 2023, hundreds of people were killed from an explosion at Al Ahli Arab hospital in north Gaza. One Twitter user wrote, “Israel indicated it was going to bomb the hospital and ordered an evacuation.” Another asked, “Why would Israel warn them to evacuate the hospital then?? An unnamed senior health official in Gaza told Al Jazeera that Israel had fired two artillery shells as a “warning” at Al Ahli Arab Hospital, just days before the explosion. Even before the airstrike that killed hundreds of people, the WHO and other human rights organizations were condemning Israel’s evacuation orders, calling them impossible. The WHO also highlighted the impossibility of such evacuation orders in its Oct. 17 statement after the bombing.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2023 13:37 UTC