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“Internal Bloodletting” in Gaza

Check out this excerpt hidden most of the way down the New York Times’ article today on the Hanukkah War (as it is being referred to in Israel):

At Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the director, Dr. Hussein Ashour, said that keeping his patients alive from their wounds was an enormous challenge. He said there were some 1,500 wounded people distributed among Gaza’s nine hospitals with far too few intensive care units, equipped ambulances and other vital equipment.

On Monday, Dr. Ashour was not the only official in charge. Armed Hamas militants in civilian clothes roamed the halls. Asked their function, they said it was to provide security. But there was internal bloodletting under way.

In the fourth-floor orthopedic section, a woman in her late 20s asked a militant to let her see Saleh Hajoj, her 32-year-old husband. She was turned away and left the hospital. Fifteen minutes later, Mr. Hajoj was carried out by young men pretending to transfer him to another ward. As he lay on the stretcher, he was shot in the left side of the head.

Mr. Hajoj, like five others killed at the hospital this way in 24 hours, was accused of collaboration with Israel. He had been in the central prison awaiting trial by Hamas judges; when Israel destroyed the prison on Sunday he and the others were transferred to the hospital. But their trials were short-circuited.

Considering what it may make people think about Hamas, I am pretty surprised that something like this was allowed into the NY Times (though it was buried pretty deep).

This entry was posted on December 30th, 2008 at 14:41 by Yaakov and is filed under Israel, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to ““Internal Bloodletting” in Gaza”

Avi Kolko Says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 21:36

Great news! If this is what the NYT is reporting, in truth it must be far worse. The less work for ours to do.

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