“No child should have to die alone,” a charity said in response to a widely shared TV report that has sent shockwaves on social media.

The cease-fire is over, but not before it offered a glimpse of the war’s horrors to Palestinians in Gaza and people around the world.

As residents used the fragile truce to find aid, search for loved ones under the rubble, and head home to survey the destruction, a particularly disturbing scene emerged.

Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds. A blurred version of the video was shared widely on social media this week, a grim and graphic contrast to other scenes of families reunited as hostages and prisoners were freed.

In a piece he reported, Mohammed Baalousha, a journalist with the Emirati TV channel Al-Mashhad, said he found the decomposing infants when he entered the pediatric ICU in the health facility in Gaza City. The hospital’s staff and critically ill patients were forced to evacuate in early November as the Israeli military focused its ground assault on the city, with hospitals under fire.

NBC News obtained raw footage from the channel and has reviewed its contents.

      • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        133·
        11 months ago

        If you weren’t a raging hypocrite you’d have done something about it

        • Soulg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          11 months ago

          Look I agree generally with shitting on pro life people but that person would not have been able to do anything at all about these babies and you know it

        • God_Is_Love@reddthat.comEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          I would do anything to have been able to save them… I am anti war, anti genocide, pro universal healthcare; pro-life shouldn’t just refer to one issue and it’s awful that the rhetoric has gone that way

  • ooo_shiny@lemmy.nzEnglish
    545·
    11 months ago

    My son was in NICU. I thought of his time in hospital as soon as the news about the Palestinian hospital broke. This is terrible.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.eeEnglish
    172·
    11 months ago

    Who cares? They’ve already been born!

    -Pro Life Republicans who support Israel.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A blurred version of the video was shared widely on social media this week, a grim and graphic contrast to other scenes of families reunited as hostages and prisoners were freed.

    In a piece he reported, Mohammed Baalousha, a journalist with the Emirati TV channel Al-Mashhad, said he found the decomposing infants when he entered the pediatric ICU in the health facility in Gaza City.

    UNICEF also warned in early November that “children in Gaza are hanging by a thread, particularly in the north,” and that Al-Nasr Hospital had reportedly sustained damage in an attack that impacted lifesaving equipment.

    Doctors at Al Shifa, one of Gaza’s largest hospitals, which faced intense bombardment and raids by Israeli forces last month, struggled to keep dozens of premature babies alive due to power outages.

    Both health officials said they notified the International Committee of the Red Cross to help with the patients left behind in the evacuation process but said that the ICRC has been unable to commit to working in such conditions since the beginning of the war.

    “This is more evident when taking into account that the IDF assisted in moving newborns from the pediatric ward of the Shifa hospital to safety, as well as provide Israeli incubators in the process,” the statement added.

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    11 months ago

    What happened to the IDF coming in and supposedly save all the kids? They couldn’t even do their own propaganda op and just left all the babies to die? The israelis are true monsters.

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    0·
    11 months ago

    Before someone tries to make the claim, no, the hospital staff couldn’t have taken the babies with them. These were premature babies in oxygen-saturated powered incubators, which could not be moved.

    Possibly if a fully set up ambulance was available for each baby, it could be done, but the IDF has been bombing ambulances too and there aren’t that many available anyways.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      This, and other similar cases, are exactly why civilized countries don’t bomb hospitals.

      There are many people who are highly immobile in hospitals.

      I have no respect for Hamas, but the IDF is at least as bad. They only try to pretend they are civilized.

      They always claim Hamas uses hospitals to perform attacks, but their evidence is even less convincing than the WMD evidence Bush used to justify the Iraq invasion.

    • LeadSoldier@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      I went down that rabbit hole when I was trying to understand why the far right was interested in supporting Israel while simultaneously being anti-semitic and working alongside Nazis. Most people in the middle or left don’t understand how crazy this is. Many members of our government are literally trying to enact some biblical nestradamus bullshit to bring forth the end of times as described in the book of Revelations.

      I’m a liberal Jew so it took a lot of reading to understand what the fuck they wanted end times to come for, but I guess it is so that they are then saved? As a non-Christian this seems weird and obviously cult-like but here we are.

    • zeroxxx@lemmy.my.idEnglish
      2937·
      11 months ago

      Save your fucking sarcastic remarks for yourself. Truly inappropriate here.

      • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3816·
        11 months ago

        Something not catering to your sensibilities doesn’t translate to “inappropriate”. There’s clear criticism in that comment. Do you want to deny them to voice criticism?

        • Sam Tamaskan@yiffit.netEnglish
          1240·
          11 months ago

          Stop playing interference. This is just mocking victims of Israel’s wildly excessive bombing and other destruction. This article is talking about newborns who likely suffered and died as no one was able to take care of them. And the dumbass asks “bUT DiD thEY dENoUnCE hAmAS?!!1?” like it’s some sort of gotcha.

  • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
    719·
    11 months ago

    Poor babies.

    I’d bet Hamas did not think that far ahead that when they planned their attack.

    • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      143·
      11 months ago

      Israel definitely did when they started bombing hospitals. You act like it’s Hamas that pulled the trigger for them, but deep down you know that’s fucking bullshit.

      These babies were killed by Israel, and nobody else.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
      371·
      11 months ago

      Not everything is two teams where one team is the winner and one team is the loser. You don’t have to pick a team and automatically everything that team does is good and everything the other team does is bad. Sometimes everything is bad. A bad thing happening to one side, and a bad thing happening to the other side, are both bad things that happened.

      There is of course significant nuance, and way more detail in what happens in a real life event. And even when something is “presented” as 2 sides, it’s really thousands of sides that only kind of align somewhat with each other on some things.

      Having said all that, the vast majority of people think they both shouldn’t have killed people on any sides. But there are alot of added up underlying causes. And while many people are constantly trying to solve the problem peacefully, there are other people that either can’t wait that long, or don’t find peace to be the best way to go for other reasons.

      Real life problems are hard to solve, and while people work to solve one, other ones are likely getting more out of hand, or even the one they are working on is. Luckily there are so many of us that are able to work towards solutions, but it certainly helps when there are at least more people trying to solve problems than the amount that are trying to cause them, or ignoring them.

      In summary, no we don’t suck hamas dick. They did a bad thing too. And while they had reason to be upset, there were certainly better ways to go about it. As is the general case in life, being angry is reasonable, but murdering people due to being angry is not.

    • Szymon@lemmy.caEnglish
      286·
      11 months ago

      Ah yes, Hamas, the deadly… checks notes infants in incubators.

      You’re a bit fucked up if you think this is a justifiable consequence of war or something to celebrate.

    • charlytune@mander.xyzEnglish
      111·
      11 months ago

      Israel had a choice about how to respond to the attacks and deal with Hamass. Just like the US and it’s allies had a choice about how to respond to 9-11. Killing thousands of innocent people is always going to be the wrong choice. Every time.

      • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        And both times it’s exactly the reaction their attackers were looking for to cause a wider conflict.

        • bufalo1973@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          And reacting just like your attacker wants is stupid. If Israel did wanted to attack only Hamas this is not the right reaction. This only gives fuel to Hamas.

    • Why9@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      Facts are facts. You’re reaching for something that isn’t there.

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        49·
        11 months ago

        To be fair, every comment here is blaming Israel, and nobody is blaming Hamas for any of it. In fact, several commentors are just repeating Hamas propaganda as facts.

        • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          And how did Hamas make Israel forcefully evacuate a hospital and leave babies to die? There’s still no proof there was even a command center there.