@unherd @giles_fraser #EasterSunday2024 in the Holy Land.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ghassan Abu Sitta @GhassanAbuSitt1 relaying unnamed colleague/staff Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: First pictured post only. Supplied thread pointer is a route, not independently verified exact ID for each pictured post. Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. I received this message from a colleague in northern Gaza: It's day 14 of the siege imposed on Al-Shifa Medical complex. Based on testimonies from the medical staff inside, the situation as follows; Retained uncertainty: ["All six pictured bodies visually checked against original. Claims attributed to source; not independently fact-checked. IDs of individual posts not invented; original thread pointer alone does not save verbatim bodies."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ghassan Abu Sitta @GhassanAbuSitt1 relaying colleague/staff Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Second pictured post only; spelling and grammar retained. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1774430575727960248 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 107 patients ,most of them are severe cases that had been in the ICU, and 60 of the medical staff have been incarcerated in an old building in the hospital that does not have the capacity to host such number of patients nor the equipments. Retained uncertainty: ["All six pictured bodies visually checked against original. Claims attributed to source; not independently fact-checked. IDs of individual posts not invented; original thread pointer alone does not save verbatim bodies."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ghassan Abu Sitta @GhassanAbuSitt1 relaying colleague/staff Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Third pictured post only. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1774430575727960248 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. The situation as reported by many of the staff is horrific and inhumane; no ventilation, cleaning conditions, water, nor minimum medication has been provided leading to septic wounds with white flies out of them. Retained uncertainty: ["All six pictured bodies visually checked against original. Claims attributed to source; not independently fact-checked. IDs of individual posts not invented; original thread pointer alone does not save verbatim bodies."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ghassan Abu Sitta @GhassanAbuSitt1 relaying colleague/staff Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Fourth pictured post only; sentence continues in next pictured post. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1774430575727960248 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Doctors mentioned that they ran out of gloves so they started using plastic bags when changing on wounds which ran out as well. In addition they reported the lack of elderly diapers, especially that 30 patients are bed ridden and use diapers and in intensive need of medical care Retained uncertainty: ["All six pictured bodies visually checked against original. Claims attributed to source; not independently fact-checked. IDs of individual posts not invented; original thread pointer alone does not save verbatim bodies."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ghassan Abu Sitta @GhassanAbuSitt1 relaying colleague/staff Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Fifth pictured post only, beginning continues fourth post; grammar retained. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1774430575727960248 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. and nursing that the limited number of staff is incapable of providing. Furthermore, patients' companions are either executed, arrested or displaced to the south by the military which add another burden on the staff. Retained uncertainty: ["All six pictured bodies visually checked against original. Claims attributed to source; not independently fact-checked. IDs of individual posts not invented; original thread pointer alone does not save verbatim bodies."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ghassan Abu Sitta @GhassanAbuSitt1 relaying colleague/staff Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Sixth pictured post, displayed4:01AM Mar31,2024. No surrounding thread expansion. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1774430575727960248 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Moreover, the military is starving the besieged patients and staff with no food or drinkable water provided for days. The staff representative tried multiple times to convey their needs to the military leadership, however; he was met by violation and mistreatment. Retained uncertainty: ["All six pictured bodies visually checked against original. Claims attributed to source; not independently fact-checked. IDs of individual posts not invented; original thread pointer alone does not save verbatim bodies."]
Open original document@unherd @giles_fraser Illuminating, the diabolical spell of religious nationalism narrowed to the dialectics of parish politics in the Holy Land. Then again, it was surely fated - a planetary Reckoning, that is, for a Country Club complex, coming genocidally to ground, in the land of Isaiah 40:15
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Copy of tweet here: What, then, ultimately distinguishes the psychosis of holy Crusader from that of Jihadist? Answer: nothing. Both, the demonic parody. Mirrors, one of the other.