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Arab News
20-05-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza nears collapse after renewed Israeli strikes
Jakarta: The Indonesia Hospital, one of the last partially functional medical centers in northern Gaza, is nearing collapse after days of Israeli strikes on its key infrastructure, the Jakarta-based nongovernmental organization funding the facility said on Tuesday. The hospital in Beit Lahiya, a four-story building located near the Jabalia refugee camp, was built from donations organized by the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee. Like other healthcare facilities in Gaza, it has been targeted by Israel's new military onslaught on the besieged enclave, in which hundreds of people were killed in the past three days. 'A quadcopter targeted the hospital's generators. Two of them were destroyed in the ensuing fire. Our water supply has been disrupted, and people aren't able to enter or exit the hospital area because there's a risk of being shot,' Dr. Hadiki Habib, chairman of MER-C's executive committee, told Arab News. At least 31 people were trapped inside the Indonesia Hospital as of Tuesday morning, including eight health workers and bedridden patients. The Indonesia Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital are the only two hospitals still treating patients in northern Gaza, Habib added, as Israeli attacks have forced most public hospitals in the area out of service. Israel launched a new ground operation, called Operation Gideon's Chariots, across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following over two months of total blockade on the enclave after Tel Aviv unilaterally broke a ceasefire with the Palestinian group Hamas in March. But Israeli forces have carried out brutal attacks in hundreds of locations across Gaza in the lead-up to the operation, killing hundreds of Palestinians. The latest offensive comes as Israel continues its onslaught of Gaza that began in October 2023 and has killed more than 53,400 Palestinians and wounded over 121,000 more. The deadly attacks have also pushed 2 million others to starvation after Israeli forces destroyed most of the region's infrastructure and buildings and blocked humanitarian aid. It was only on Monday that Israel's military said it allowed five aid trucks into Gaza, though according to the UN, the enclave needs at least 500 trucks of aid and commercial goods every day. 'It's very sad and heartbreaking. The Indonesia Hospital is barely functioning. All logistics needs have been blocked by Israel and there are threats against healthcare workers to leave and empty the facility,' Sarbini Abdul Murad, chairman of MER-C's board of trustees in Jakarta, told Arab News. The Indonesia Hospital was one of the first targets hit when Israel began its assault on Gaza, in which it regularly targets medical facilities. Attacks on health centers, medical personnel and patients constitute war crimes under the 1949 Geneva Convention. 'There is no place left that is safe from Israel's pursuit,' Murad said. 'For the sake of humanity, the international community must pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire so that we can stop this humanitarian tragedy.'
India Today
29-04-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Fact Check: 2023 video from Gaza VIRAL as India's revenge on Pakistan after Pahalgam attack
On the night of April 28-29, the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked firing across the Line of Control for the fifth consecutive time following the terror attack in Pahalgam. Pakistan's defence minister said on April 28 that 'a military incursion' by India was imminent in the aftermath of the Pahalgam a video of people running helter-skelter amid heavy bombardment at a distance is being widely shared online with the claim that India conducted this attack at the India-Pakistan border to avenge the Pahalgam massacre. advertisementSharing the video on Facebook, one person wrote, 'Pakistan situation now. Bharat Mata Ki Jai. #Pahalgam Terror Attack.' India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video is from the Gaza Strip, and is more than a year ProbeReverse-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a Facebook post from November 10, 2023, by Omar Suleiman, an American Islamic scholar and civil rights activist. Its caption stated that Israel dropped bombs on the Indonesia Hospital outside the Jabalia Refugee Camp in then found multiple news reports about this incident. According to them, people fled from a hospital in Beit Lahia in Gaza during an Israeli strike in a nearby street. An Al Jazeera video report about this featured the viral clip, along with some other footage from the Per reports, hundreds of people were injured in this Israeli airstrike near the Indonesia Hospital, which was opened in Beit Lahia in 2015. The hospital, built from donations raised by an NGO, was one of the last remaining hospitals in Gaza. A week before this attack, the Israeli military had claimed that Hamas was using this hospital 'to hide an underground command and control center'.Back in October 2024, the same video was shared on social media as Israel's attack on Iran. We had debunked it at the time as is thus clear that a 2023 video from Gaza was falsely linked to the ongoing India-Pakistan tensions. Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
Arab News
16-03-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Indonesian NGOs to build new women's and children's hospital in Gaza City
Jakarta: Construction on a new women's and children's hospital in Gaza City, funded by the Indonesian people and NGOs, will begin next month as part of a national campaign to support Palestine. The 402 billion rupiah ($24.5 million) project is organized by Jakarta-based Aqsa Working Group and Maemuna Center Indonesia with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The hospital — which will be called the Indonesian Mother and Child Hospital, or RSIA Indonesia — will be built on a 5,000 square-meter plot of land near Al-Rantisi Hospital in the city's Nasser neighborhood, which was donated by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. 'As we all know, the majority of victims of Zionist Israel's genocide in Gaza are children and women … We hope this hospital will help provide healthcare for children and women in Gaza,' AWG chairman Muhammad Anshorullah told Arab News on Sunday. The new healthcare facility will be the second to bear Indonesia's name, after the Indonesia Hospital in north Gaza, which was funded by the Indonesian NGO Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, or MER-C, and has been open since late 2015. Since Israel began its assault on Gaza in October 2023, the Indonesia Hospital has been one of the last functioning health facilities in the north. 'We hope that RSIA will only strengthen the strong reputation that MER-C has built through the Indonesia Hospital in northern Gaza. The Indonesia Hospital is a symbol of the friendship and brotherhood of Indonesia and Palestine, God willing, RSIA will only strengthen that bond,' Anshorullah said. A staunch supporter of Palestine, the Indonesian government and people see Palestinian statehood as being mandated by their own constitution, which calls for the abolition of colonialism. Last month, the foreign affairs ministry, the Indonesian Ulema Council and Indonesia's National Alms Agency launched a solidarity campaign to raise $200 million in humanitarian aid for Palestinians and support the rebuilding of Gaza. Several Indonesian NGOs have pledged contributions for RSIA fundraising, while donations have also been made by the Indonesian people. 'One of the big projects for Gaza that have been proposed and will be handled by Indonesian charity and humanitarian organizations is the development of the Indonesian Mother and Child Hospital in Gaza City,' Ahrul Tsani, Middle East director at the foreign affairs ministry, said in a statement. 'This is an important part in Indonesia's humanitarian diplomacy in Palestine, and a real product of Indonesia's support as a nation.' Israeli forces have killed more than 48,000 people and injured more than 111,000, although the real death toll is feared to be much higher. According to the UN Human Rights Office, women and children make up nearly 70 percent of the fatalities it has verified since October 2023. Maemuna Center and AWG will dispatch a team to survey the location in the next few weeks, with plans for construction to begin by the end of April at the latest. 'The construction of RSIA is not just a matter of building a health infrastructure, but it is a real form of solidarity from Indonesia to Palestine,' said Onny Firyanti Hamidi, head of Maemuna Center Indonesia. 'This is a concrete step to ensure that the women and children of Gaza will have access to proper healthcare.'
Arab News
02-03-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Jakarta NGO sends off new batch of medics to volunteer at Gaza hospital
JAKARTA: A new group of Indonesian medics is on their way to Gaza to volunteer at the Indonesia Hospital, the Jakarta-based nongovernmental organization that assembled the team said on Sunday, as uncertainties loom over the second phase of the ceasefire. The Indonesian NGO Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, or MER-C, has been organizing teams of doctors and nurses since last March, as part of emergency deployments led by the World Health Organization. The latest batch, comprising two general practitioners, a nurse, an anesthesiologist and a midwife, departed Jakarta on Saturday and is expected to enter Gaza in the next couple of days. 'They will be stationed at the Indonesia Hospital, as the facility has resumed operations,' Sarbini Abdul Murad, chairman of MER-C's board of trustees in Jakarta, told Arab News on Sunday. 'Gaza is in need of different kinds of doctors, as the number of victims and the availability of local doctors are disproportionate.' MER-C has so far sent 45 volunteers to Gaza as part of its emergency medical teams, which previously comprised other specialists, including internists and surgeons. The Indonesia Hospital — a facility that was funded and opened by MER-C in late 2015 — was one of the first sites hit when Israel began its assault on Gaza in October 2023. Since the first phase of the ceasefire began on Jan. 19, the hospital has also been gradually resuming essential services, from surgeries to emergency and inpatient services, as it worked to reach at least 50 percent of full capacity by July. For nurse Ade Andrian, a member of MER-C's latest emergency medical team, the opportunity to volunteer in Gaza was a long time coming, having first registered in 2023, a couple of months after Israel began its latest assault on the enclave. 'Praise be to God that today I have been given the chance to join the EMT to be a part of the humanitarian mission for the people of Gaza,' Andrian said. However, as the first stage of the ceasefire ended without agreement on continuing into a second phase and Israel moved to block entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the latest developments are sparking concerns. 'The blocking of humanitarian aid will not only impact the Indonesia Hospital but also all the other hospitals in Gaza and also the residents of the enclave,' MER-C's Murad said. 'We hope that Israel will soon continue with the ceasefire deal according to what was agreed. If this is violated, then we fear another massive wave of civilian loss.'
Arab News
27-02-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza resumes inpatient services
JAKARTA: The Indonesia Hospital in northern Gaza has resumed inpatient services, the Jakarta-based NGO that funded it said on Thursday, as the facility races to resume full operations after repairs to the building and equipment that were destroyed by Israeli forces. The health facility in Beit Lahiya, funded by the Indonesian NGO Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, was one of the first sites hit when Israel began its assault on Gaza in October 2023. As relentless Israeli attacks pushed the enclave's healthcare system to the brink of collapse, the Indonesia Hospital stood as one of the last functioning health facilities in the north. Since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19, the hospital has been gradually resuming essential services, with inpatient treatment being the latest. 'The Indonesia Hospital is resuming its operations to handle sick patients,' Sarbini Abdul Murad, chairman of MER-C's board of trustees in Jakarta, told Arab News. 'We hope to renovate and rebuild every part of the facility that was destroyed, as well as fully supply the hospital to meet all of the patients' needs.' Israeli forces targeted and heavily damaged most of the medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. The Indonesia Hospital was treating about 1,000 people at one point during Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed more than 48,300 people and injured over 111,000. Since last month, it has resumed services for emergencies, surgeries, radiology, laboratory, outpatient and inpatient treatments, and is now operating at 30 percent of full capacity 'Six months from the beginning of the ceasefire, we are aiming to reactivate essential services to reach at least 50 percent of full capacity,' Dr. Hadiki Habib, chairman of MER-C's executive committee, told Arab News. The Indonesia Hospital will be the main referral hospital in northern Gaza and some parts of Gaza City, after the former main referral hospital, Al-Shifa, was destroyed by Israeli siege and attacks. 'There is a great need for essential services,' Habib said. 'Over a year of displacement and limited access (to healthcare), many Palestinians with chronic illnesses need quality treatments.'
