Hospitals operating almost without electricity, doctors performing operations with little or even no anesthesia and using vinegar as an antiseptic, daily bombings and civilian deaths as a result have been common in the Gaza Strip for several days.as a result of military actions taken by Israel following the October 7 armed attacks by the Islamist group Hamas on Israeli territory, which left 1,400 dead.

“Hospitals are running almost without electricity (in Gaza), the little electricity they have left from the generators they simply use in places, for example (for) premature babies who need machines but no longer turn on the lights,” Donatella explains . Rovera, Amnesty International researcher on war crimes and human rights violations in conflicts and crises.

Rovera described the situation in the Gaza Strip, where some 2 million people live, as “apocalyptic.”civilians “who have no responsibility and who do not have to pay the price for the crimes committed for Hamas, but they are the ones who pay the highest price, that is what happens to the civilian population.”

The researcher explained that Gaza is currently experiencing indiscriminate bombing by Israeli forces, killing dozens of civilians in their homes, as well as on the streets.or when are they going to try to buy bread?”.

In addition, he notes that many people left their homes and went to the homes of friends or relatives, thinking they would be better protected there or perhaps because their home had already been bombed. But now even civilians have died in places where people thought it was safer and where they hoped to be protected, such as in churches.

“For example, yesterday I spoke to the father of several children who died and were doing well. He lost his three children, but he also lost his brothers, his sisters-in-law and his brothers’ children; They had left their home and sought refuge in the church, thinking they would be better protected there. The bombardment reached there and 18 civilians were killed.“Many of them were children and women from Gaza’s small Christian community,” Rovera explained to the program. This is how it arrivedbroadcast by Radio City (89.3 FM in Guayaquil).

“There is no place, neither in the north, nor in the south, nor in the east, nor in the west, nor in the center, where bombings do not take place every day.. “That is the situation of the people of Gaza, in addition to the fact that they don’t even have clean water to drink… so there is also a public health crisis developing in this place,” he explained.

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When asked if war crimes are being committed, the Amnesty International official said: “There are definitely war crimes on both sides (the Israeli army and Hamas)”. However, he emphasized that war crimes committed by one party never justify the other party to commit them as well.

“The fact that Hamas has taken hostages and killed civilians in Israel is reprehensible, it is a war crime. but it does not justify Israeli forces’ collective punishment, including killing, of Gaza’s civilian populationthat they cut off his electricity, that they do not let him in with food and medicine, that they bomb him indiscriminately, that cannot be justified,” the researcher said.

Rovera said Amnesty International calls on Hamas and any other Palestinian armed group to immediately release the civilian hostages, regardless of political discussions. “This is something that should never have happened and must be resolved immediately…what will happen to those hostages should not depend on any negotiation“, he pointed out. (JO)