they were to talk to me about it, because people were more than happy to give me their view. everyone in iran has an opinion.

welcome back to the electronic. friedman with tamara nasar. today we're taking a look at israel's relentless attacks on hospitals and medical workers in gaza. we're especially focusing on the situation at nasar hospital in hanyunus. according to the palestinian health ministry on thursday, israeli forces attacked the hospital and ordered patients, staff and displaced people sheltering in the hospital complex outside into adjacent buildings. the health minister. said that

israeli forces ordered officials at nasa hospital to move 95 health personnel, 11 of their families, 191 patients and 165 companions and displaced people an old building adjacent to the hospital in harsh and frightening conditions, without food, without milk for children and an acute water shortage. dr. khalid aler sent these voice messages to us on thursday. since yesterday there is lot of updates uh about what happening here in master hospital there was direct bombing to the hospital they forced people inside the hospital including patients relativ oh ya allah patients relatives and healthcare workers to evacuate immediately and you can hear in the background the cont

was bombing in the hospital. this comes after a week of intensifying attacks on the hospital and its grounds with armed israeli quad copters shooting at patients, doctors and hospital staff and israeli armored vehicles destroying parts of the wall around the complex. early thursday morning, israeli forces shelled the patient ward at nasa hospital. dr. alser sent us this video of doctors scrambling to move their patients out in the immediate after.

now, on friday, the palestinian health ministry reports that, quote, three patients died in intensive care as a result of the power outage and the cessation of oxygen in the nasa medical complex. two women gave birth in inhumane conditions without electricity, water, food and heating, and fourth patient at nasa was murdered as a result of the cessation of electrical generators and the cessation of oxygen at dawn on friday. israeli occupation forces forced men, women and children to move from the old nasa building without luggage to the maternity building, which they turned into a military barracks, that was from the health ministry on friday morning. joining us to talk about the current situation at nasa hospital and israel's systematic and relentless targeting of hospitals across gaza is dr. mads gilbert. mads is a norwegian physician who for years has worked alongside doctors and nurses in gaza. dr. mads, welcome back to the electronic intofada podcast.

thank you so much under dire conditions, but still good to see you. thanks uh to you so much as well. um, mads, you've been in touch with doctors and medical staff at nasa hospital over the last week, give us a sense of what they're dealing with. i mean, we we just saw those images of patients being ordered to evacuate, others lined up on their gernies in the corridor of an older building, and of course we've heard the reports of quadcopters shooting anyone who moves inside the hospital and and in the courtyard near the entrance to the emergency department, what is going on here, and what are you hearing from your colleagues there? actually, what's this going? is going on in nasar hospital is pretty much the same that's been going on in almost all the palestinian hospitals and healthcare units, also the primary healthcare system for the last four months. this is uh nadir, very low point in

this long array of israeli systematic attacks on healthcare, on healthcare providers, on patients, on companions to the patients and on the thousands and thousands of forcefully displaced palestinians who have been seeking refuge and safety, some kind of safety in their hospitals, so what we're seeing at nasar now is the culmination of a systematic operation mode by the israeli occupation army, which actually has the goal of dismantling healthcare. gaza as it has been working for the last 20 years and destroying it completely and with that destruction comes of course the the lack of sufficient medical capacity for the wounded and for those with common diseases for the pregnant women as we

heard and it is a systematic way of attacking the palestinian people and all these claims about you you know now the claim was ham operatives and hostages, so far we haven't seen any proof of that as we didn't see in shifa or in the cancer hospital, in the turkish friendship hospital or rantissi hospital, so what the heroic palestinian healthcare workers in nasa hospital have been reporting is actually that they have been continuing to treat patients in patients and patients who were brought to them despite of the siege of hospital that has been going on for, guess the better part of three weeks with surrounding tanks, threats, shooting, targeting quadrocopters and then finally the last few days snipers shooting through the windows of the the the rooms in the hospital

and even shooting into the icu and into the doctor's room and into anywhere where there are human beings, so they have been continuing their... um, some of them left yesterday, some of them were shot at during the evacuation, not evacuation, but when they left the hospital, presumably through the safe roots that israel is lying about, and some are still in the hospital, and i'd like to read to you the text that accompanied that movie, that little video you showed of the overcrowded corridors in this building to which the palestinians... have been forced to evacuate the patients and the staff, which is by the way the oldest part of nasa medical complex, and he says in this message, the situation now at nasar hospital, all of the patients and healthcare workers were displaced to one department, one other

buildings have been invaded by soldiers, we can hear the shooting and bombings everywhere, and then he continues and he finish up saying, please stop this madness, stop this war. this is hospital facility, not a battlefield, unquote, that's the appeal of an extreme. brave medical doctor among the the thousands of brave healthcare personnel in gaza who have never yielded and never left their patients, so my point is that it's horrible and the most horrible thing about what is going on in nasa hospital now is that this has been going on for four months without no power, stopping it, so i don't know, i think this really is with their impunity. they just keep going, because no military force or political force or

international alliance of decent nations are able to stop them, the only one to stop them is is the united states and they don't want to stop them, they continue to supply them with political support and weapons, so this madness is a result of deliberate politics and deliberate policy from the united states and unfortunately also from the the european governments, yeah, so um, so i am extremely anxious about the fate of these remaining patients and medical staff, it's it's unconstionable what we're seeing and hearing from nasa and and around, and and as you said, it's a microcosm of what's happening all over gaza, um, can you talk about the incident on wednesday? where a detained palestinin man was sent by the israeli army to deliver their orders to evacuate the

hospital, this man was dressed in personal protective equipment, his hands were tied, and then after they were done with him with using their human shield essentially, the israelis executed him on the spot. the intercept had this article about that incident, and it also included a video, i think we can we can show that, so what's happened? today is a completely trap, completely trap, they sent hostage with cough hands to the hospital asking him to tell us that we should evacuate, and when people started really evacuating, they open fire and they shooted at the people and they killed the hostage also, that already sent by the idf at the gate of the hospital, doctor mads, i mean we... didn't see any western media cover uh, you major corporate western media

cover what happened to that detained man who was sent by the israelis to deliver their order to to evacuate and then was sumarily executed. um, what do you make of this? what, what, how, how, how, how did this happen? well, i think it is in many. ways, we we should maybe not be shocked, but when you look at the individual level, how the israelis are treating the palestinians, you get this sickening feeling of racism and a disregard for human life that you you, you would not believe existed in our time a a one to one level, mean using a f35 to fly over gaza and do some pinpoint or or just bomb dropping, you're not looking in the... is of the other person, the other human, but this guy, he was for.