Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Israel launches ground incursion in Gaza Strip [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)JERUSALEM
Basman Alashi, the director of the al-Wafa Rehabilitation Center in Gaza, said he received a call at 8:45 pm last Thursday with a warning: leave the building, an assault will begin in ten minutes.
The call was from the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]. The military is known to inform residents of buildings being targeted during operations in this case a campaign known as Protective Edge that is seeking to destroy the military capabilities of the Hamas Palestinian group that controls the Gaza Strip.
Alashi says he and his staff initially refused to evacuate.
"I told them I cannot leave," he said. "I have people who are paralyzed, unconscious, they produce no threat to the Israelis at all, they're just sitting in their beds."
http://www.voanews.com/content/gazas-hospitals-under-fire-in-israeli-operations/1961124.html