Salvador Peiró
Epidemiologist, researcher in the Health Services and Pharmacoepidemiology Research Area of the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of the Valencian Community (FISABIO) and Director of Gaceta Sanitaria, the scientific journal of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration (SESPAS)
The paper by Kunichoff et al. published in Plos Global Public Health and making ingenious use of satellite images previously published in the mainstream press, describes how between October and mid-November 2023 hundreds of Mark-84 bombs (with enormous destructive capacity, even hundreds of meters from the blast site) were detonated close enough to 84% of Gaza hospitals to cause 'damage and injury' (less than 800 meters) and at a 'lethal' distance (less than 350 meters) from 25% of those hospitals. And both in the north of the Strip and in the supposedly safe evacuation zone defined by Israel.
Hospitals within these distance ranges will have suffered damage to their infrastructures and human casualties, both among patients and health professionals and among the civilian population that (in vain) sought refuge in their vicinity because they are infrastructures specially protected by international humanitarian law. In addition, damage to roads, electricity or water facilities, etc., will have affected access to hospitals and their supplies, and hindered the care of many seriously ill patients.
In summary, the above study proves that Israel, ignoring the most basic international law thanks to the impunity that the United States is guaranteeing it, has been considering hospitals, health professionals and patients as a legitimate military target. Crimes against humanity. No palliatives.