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Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (apnews.com)

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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[–] burchalka@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even less care given when brown indigenous peoples bombed by other brown indigenous people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war

Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by opposition activist groups, vary between 503,064 and about 613,407 as of March 2023

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

A lot of Arabs and Muslims have volunteered to fight Assad, and many foreign countries got involved in Syria

As bad is it was, it is nowhere near as bad as war on Gaza