Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution

In Gaza, doctors and civil defense workers are still recovering

bodies

from

mass

graves

found at the NASA medical complex for the sixth consecutive day after Israel's siege of the

hospital

. More than 320

bodies

have been discovered so far, including women, children, patients and medical staff, according to Al Jazer Another

mass

grave with up to 400 bodies was discovered weeks earlier at the Alifa

hospital

in Gaza City. Civil defense officials said the bodies were found piled up and showed

signs

of field

execution

s or having been buried alive. The United Nations and the European Union have called for an independent investigation into the mass

graves

and the White House on Wednesday also called for an investigation.

This comes as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza with at least 43 people killed in the last 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least five of them were killed in the southern city of Rafa, where Israel has carried out attacks. almost daily air strikes as it prepares for an offensive on the city, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government told Reuters. Israel is moving forward with a ground operation in Rafa, but did not give a timetable. A defense official said Israel had purchased 40,000 tents, each holding 10 to 12 people, to house Palestinians evacuated from Rafa before its assault on the city.

Israeli media reports that Israel will forcibly evacuate civilians to the nearby city of Han Yunes, which has been virtually destroyed by Israeli forces. More than 1.3 million Palestinians are seeking refuge in Rafa, the southernmost city of Loop. Now we go to Rafa in Gaza, where we are accompanied by Akram Alatar, a Gaza-based journalist. Welcome back to democracy. Now Aram, just a few moments ago, Palestinian officials arrested. a press conference in Rafa about the mass graves at Nasser's medical complex, can you tell us the latest? I know there is a delay in the transmission. Good morning, Emy, to you and to all the viewers.

I just returned from Kan Yunis area. I was in Naser. hospital I spoke with the civil defense officer who is now giving this press conference about the situation at the Naser hospital and about the number of people dying the way they were killed and an account of the potential suffering that they have been seeing even Before the death it appears that the mass graves the three different mass graves contain around 700 bodies up to this particular time around 400 bodies were on Earth and around 300 bodies or even more were discovered they are still in the ground the bulldozer a bulldozer due to the very limited resources working is working there simply to dig up the bodies the family members are lined up there the family members are trying and running with passion and with great pain to identify the bodies of their deer some of them manage identify the bodies then you hear the clamor you hear people screaming crying and lamenting the death of their deer but at the same time they feel a little relieved because they finally found the body of their deer.

I spoke to a mother who is around 42 43 years old. she was trying to identify her son and then she found her son's body she was crying the sister also her daughter was crying and they were calling the family to come and join them at the burial because in our culture like Muslims and Arabs we find a burial as the most appropriate tribute for people who are dead, people are continually digging up the bodies, people are continually and this is very ironic, they are trying to save the dead, when they are supposed to die They should rest in peace and I was saying that when people die in Gaza they are not resting or in peace.

The friends. Those friends were picked up twice by the Israeli occupation forces. They were taken for a forensic investigation. They were returned to the Nasar hospital. They are in storage. in this big place They made three different holes and then they were buried and then a second time the Isel occupation forces returned to the Naser hospital, they invaded all the different departments of the hospital, they attacked the specialized surgery, reception and emergency department, and once again they dug up those hundreds of body and took them once again and then returned them to this mass grave or mass grave, so the suffering even of the dead in Gaza is still continuous and the pain of their families is continuous in every body that is on Earth.

You find dozens of people running in order to identify if these are their relatives or not. You also see many families visually looking at the graves of this individual in the Naser Hospital area. You see written on the tombstone that this guy is a tall guy. He has long hair, he's wearing a gray shirt and this is all we know and then it's up to the family to try to find him and for people to remember what they were wearing from the day they broke up, what they were wearing that day. They were murdered so it was a very emotionally draining process, the numbers are quite shocking but the account of the loss and death that led to that eventual mass grave is extremely shocking where some of the people like you just said that some of the people were tied.

Some of the people had medical accessories in their hands such as cannulas and when they were off the ground it was evident that they were cut alive. Some people were

torture

d. Some of the bodies were extremely mutilated, meaning that those bodies had some of their organs. were taken by the Israeli occupation some lose their eyes eyes I could see someone's without eyes I could see someone's without liver or kidney someone's like that you see them as if the outer skin is just covering the skeleton and that's it, so The account of that experience is quite heartbreaking.

The families who have been suffering simply from identifying their deer are also devastated, they have been crying, but at least they say we feel comfortable that we found our deer, so it gives them an idea. a look at the suffering that the people of Gaza are experiencing, gives you a glimpse of the grief that the women, men, boys and girls in Gaza have been experiencing for the last 6 months or so Al, just so our audience knows, you You know it every time we talk to you. There is a constant noise around you and those are drones, of course, flying overhead, as they have been doing for months, but if you could respond, you know that the European Union, the United Nations and now also the United States have asked. an independent investigation into these mass graves, so your response to that and we are talking to you in Rafa if you could also describe what conditions are on the ground, as well as the independent investigation or scrutiny committee that needs to be developed.

I have been working in journalism for about 16 years. I have heard of independent committees, commissions of inquiry, committees of inquiry, reports and international tribunals on the situation in Gaza, investigating the particular details of the incidents that were taking place, investigating the deaths of several people. in Incidents of mass killings, including the 2008 war, the 2014 war, and the 2021 war. I've been listening to a book about Gaza and the 2014 Gaza war and I was reading the exact word I'm going to say. now the Palestinians are struggling to unearth the omens, so this is something that happened in 2014, this is something that happened in 2008, this is something that happened 21, 22 and continues to happen during 2023 and 2024, the international community has failed to preserve , preserve and observe. the dictates of international humanitarian law humanity in general faces a challenge now all political systems in the world are asked and expected to do something tangible simply to save the Gaza Strip the roric is no longer necessary the roric is no longer satisfactory I need you to do something tangible to stop the things that are happening in Gaza some of the things that Gazans suggest not fly to zon to protect civilians in Gaza some of the things that Gazans suggest that Israel should be held accountable for what they call crimes that were committed against humanity against people against civilians international humanitarian law is rich in terms and vocabulary that are related to what they call civilian objects civilian objects that are protected journalists that are protected medical equipment that are supposed to be medical facilities protected areas that are supposed to be protected too, but when you look at the shocking figures about the way journalists are being killed, for example, iCal teams, for example, you come to the conclusion that the international community is not doing nothing so far. tangible instead of statements condemnations calls for investigations or independent commissions to investigate the investigation we need something tangible and that something tangible has not been achieved so far and Gazans have been constantly dying because of that something must be done, something Swift must be done Otherwise, the death would continue today in Gaza, today 79 people have been murdered and an average of between 65 and 79 people die every day, and if nothing is done, this means that the international community accepts the slaughter of Gazans and accepts Israel's justification for Let's keep killing, we're sorry, and when it comes to the situation in Rafa, in Rafa there are about 1.4 to 1.2 million because of the influx of people from Rafa in the In recent days, people are so frightened by the impending ground operation that they understand that the occupation is going to attack them and they understand that death would follow them, so some of them moved out of the RAF.

Around 150,000 Gazans have already left Rafah and moved to the Maasi area, a buffer zone between Rafah and Kanun, in the hope of survival. Those who are in Rafah and those who are in Kanun and those who are in Gaza throughout Gaza are all internally displaced around 2.1 million internally displaced people due to the destruction of infrastructure, the destruction of houses, the destruction of the streets and because of the continuous bombing that has been taking their lives and those people are living in areas that have no infrastructure no infrastructure means they don't have water supplies that are regular they don't have sewage systems they don't have food they don't even have water drinking water with which they can cook food they do not have houses they live in tents and today is a very hot day today and yesterday were very hot days in this specific season now the people in the tents are struggling We are sweating all day, the children who have respiratory problems, even adults who have some respiratory disorders, are suffering more than any other people and this suffering is continuous and this situation as far as the humanitarian situation in Gaza is concerned is un

bear

able, unimaginable and unacceptable when I tell you that The situation is unimaginable because for me in some parts of Gaza and in some parts of those camps I have seen the suffering of the people is unimaginable.

They see them living only with the minimum and there isn't even a minimum and they don't have anything. Another option is to continue living and hoping and hoping that some solution will be developed or concluded soon. This is the truth about the situation. Something I have never seen in my life, much less from someone who lives thousands of kilometers from Gaza. There are people buried. in the streets people are buried on the sidewalks people are buried everywhere in their houses and some of the friends around 10,000 friends are in Gaza they are still under the rubble and have not been

recovered

until now you walk through the streets and you smell to death everywhere you go to the hospital that is supposed to be the Temple of protection and Humanity you find the hospital completely devastated by death you find the patients who were supposed to be receiving Medical Treatments buried inside the hospital and you smell their body decomposed after the The bodies were secret and on Earth and everywhere you turn your face you see the children, you see the adults, you see the women and men, the girls and boys suffering from that unjust situation that still continues and no international power could stop that or end the current suffering and misery.

Aram Alat, we want to thank you very much for being with us, be safe. Akram is a Gaza-based journalist speaking to us from Rafa.